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DESCRIPTIONS

The SD Slave Controller is designed to reside within an SD memory, SDIO, or SD

Combo Card. It serves as an interface between the SD bus and user logic that pro-

vides the actual function of the card. It is designed to integrate with user logic to

make various devices using the SD bus protocol, such as storage or wireless net-

work card.

The SD slave controller supports both 1 and 4 bit SD interface (up to 8 bits in

optional MMC support) and SPI mode. Data rate of up to 25Mbyte/sec (200Mbs)

can be realized with SD interface. Features such as plug and play, auto-detection,

error correction, write protection are standard with SD card interface and are sup-

ported.

As a slave device, the SD slave controller receives commands from the host

through the SD interface. Most of the commands are processed locally by the con-

troller without any help from the user logic. The majority of the standard SD reg-

ister set is also implemented within the slave controller and process by the core

without help from the user logic.

In case of memory or IO access that needs to be forwarded to the user logic, the

slave controller handles all the SD bus protocol and presents the request to the

user logic as simple read and write request through parallel address and data

buses. Burst transfer of up to 2048 bytes per transfer and user defined wait states

are supported on the user interface to maximize data bandwidth. The slave con-

troller also contains data buffer to match the speed differences between the user

interface and the SD interface. It allows a much more efficient use of the user

interface.

SD Combo card and multi-function cards are supports by the EP560. With Combo

card and multi-function, one user interface is dedicated for each function so all

functions can operate in parallel.

The user interface of the EP560 core can operate either in DMA mode or interrupt

mode. In the normal DMA mode, the EP560 is a bus master that transfers data

between the user’s memory and the SD host. It functions like a DMA controller

under the control of the SD host. In the optional interrupt mode, the communica-

tion between the EP560 and the user logic is interrupt driven. The EP560 asserts

interrupt to the local CPU whenever it needs to access user memory. The main

body of this data sheets describe the EP560 in DMA mode and the interrupt mode

is described in the Appendix.

With the EP560, SD card design can be realized with very little development cost.

The designer can add SD memory and SDIO interface capability to the design by

simply adding the EP560 module without changing the rest of the system architec-

ture.

EP560 SD/SDIO/MMC

Slave Controller