Talk:Intel 8237

This page should contain references to Intel 8257. 14.139.196.5 (talk) 16:35, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

AMD Design
The 8237 DMAC was originally designed by AMD and known as Am9517A under AMD nomenclature. The Am9517A itself seems to be a development of Intel 8257. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skiselev (talk • contribs) 05:45, 23 April 2013 (UTC) Skiselev (talk) 05:50, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

I believe that the 8257 is a i8080 part. The 8237 is listed with the MCS-85 chipsets. TaylorLeem (talk) 03:08, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

DMA misses
The register Memory Management Unit accompanying the i8237 is the 74LS612 with 16 by 12bit registere with the A12-A15 selecting a 12-bit register which concatenated with the remaining 12 lower address bits to give a 24 bit address. Hence actual DMA pages will match the Windows virtual memory pages of 4K. As the 74LS612 was an integral part of i8237 usage, this article should contain a reference. TaylorLeem (talk) 03:05, 26 May 2021 (UTC)