The Cell Buffer



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The Cell Buffer

As before the SRAM is divided up into cell buffers. Each is 16 words long. Figure 1 shows the organisation of a cell buffer as used for both transmission and reception.

 
Figure 1:   Cell Buffer Format.

In an outgoing cell that is not marked as local the remap index is used as the ``buffer number'' to fetch the remap vector information from. From December 1992 use of the local bit is discouraged as it will not be supported in future versions - all cells will go through the remap process. The timestamp field is written with the value of the TimeStamp register just after the final data word is written.



Mark Hayter and Richard Black