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Notice that misaligned address are forbidden by MIPS architecture and they will result in an Address Exception. So all accesses that go through the memory map are always aligned to the access size (eg: aligned to 2 bytes for 16-bit reads/writes).
=== Range 0x0000'0000 -
The accesses in this area are handled by RCP via RI (Ram Interface). When the VR4300 reads or writes a location in this range, it gets stalled while the RI communicates with the RDRAM via the RAMBUS serial protocol. As soon as the read or write is finished, the VR4300 is released. Effectively, all reads and writes are synchronous (blocking) from the point of view of the VR4300, as you would expect when accessing a RAM. All access sizes work correctly: 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit.
=== Range 0x03F0'0000 -
The accesses in this area are handled by RCP via RI (Ram Interface). When the VR4300 reads or writes a location in this range, it gets stalled while the RI communicates with the RDRAM via the RAMBUS serial protocol. As soon as the read or write is finished, the VR4300 is released. Effectively, all reads and writes are synchronous (blocking) from the point of view of the VR4300, as you would expect when accessing a RAM.
=== Range 0x0400'0000 - 0x04FF'FFFF (RCP registers) ===
The accesses in this area are handled by RCP itself without going to an external bus, and are dispatched internally to the correct subsystem. Access to a register might optionally stall the VR4300 if the subsystem is designed to do so (eg: to perform a long blocking operation on write), but in general for standard registers, they are quite fast and take only 5-6 PClock cycles (MI regs are a bit faster and take about 2 cycles).
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