Bus Auto Increment

Measures what bit 13 of the delay and size registers does to 32-bit accesses to 8-bit and 16-bit devices.

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Overview

A 32-bit access to a 16-bit device is two bus transactions, and to an 8-bit device four. Bit 13 of a device's delay and size register decides whether the device address advances between those transactions. The program tests this on the 8-bit BIOS ROM through DEV2 (1F801010h) and on the 16-bit SPU through DEV4 (1F801014h).¹

On the ROM it reads words, halfwords and bytes from BFC00000h under the BIOS's own setting and again with bit 13 cleared. On the SPU it seeds the voice 0 ADSR registers at 1F801C08h and 1F801C0Ah with halfword stores under a safe setting. It then issues one SW, LW, LH or SH under the setting being tested and reads the result back under the safe setting.¹ The program ran its full set three times and printed the same lines each time.²

Results

BIOS ROM

With bit 13 set, as the BIOS leaves it (DEV2 0013243Fh), a word read returns four consecutive ROM bytes: the first word read 3C080013h. With bit 13 cleared (0013043Fh) the address does not advance, so every byte of a word comes from one address: the first word read 13131313h and the first halfword 1313h. Byte reads are the same under both settings.²

SPU

The SPU results for each setting of DEV4 are as follows. Each pair gives the register at 1F801C0Ah before the register at 1F801C08h.²

With bit 13 clear, both halves of a 32-bit store go to the first register, and the second half overwrites the first: 1F801C08h ended as AAAAh and 1F801C0Ah kept 2222h. A 32-bit load then reads the first register twice. Under an 8-bit setting the SPU receives one byte for each 16-bit register. The upper byte of the register is written as FFh.²

Runs

22 October 2026 (link)

AUTOINC.txt:

AUTOINC-START dev2=0013243f dev4=200931e1
ROM bios   dev2=0013243f lw 3c080013 3508243f 3c011f80 ac281010 lh 0013 3c08 243f 3508 lb 13 00 08 3c 3f 24 08 35
ROM noinc  dev2=0013043f lw 13131313 3f3f3f3f 80808080 10101010 lh 1313 0808 3f3f 0808 lb 13 00 08 3c 3f 24 08 35
SPU 16inc  dev4=200931ef sw(aaaa5555 over 2222:1111)=aaaa:5555 sh(beef over 4444:3333)=4444:beef lw(9abc:5678)=9abc5678 lh+2=9abc
SPU 16no   dev4=200911ef sw(aaaa5555 over 2222:1111)=2222:aaaa sh(beef over 4444:3333)=4444:beef lw(9abc:5678)=56785678 lh+2=9abc
SPU 8inc   dev4=200921ef sw(aaaa5555 over 2222:1111)=ffaa:ff55 sh(beef over 4444:3333)=4444:ffbe lw(9abc:5678)=bcbc7878 lh+2=bcbc
SPU 8no    dev4=200901ef sw(aaaa5555 over 2222:1111)=2222:ffaa sh(beef over 4444:3333)=4444:ffbe lw(9abc:5678)=78787878 lh+2=bcbc
ROM bios   dev2=0013243f lw 3c080013 3508243f 3c011f80 ac281010 lh 0013 3c08 243f 3508 lb 13 00 08 3c 3f 24 08 35
ROM noinc  dev2=0013043f lw 13131313 3f3f3f3f 80808080 10101010 lh 1313 0808 3f3f 0808 lb 13 00 08 3c 3f 24 08 35
SPU 16inc  dev4=200931ef sw(aaaa5555 over 2222:1111)=aaaa:5555 sh(beef over 4444:3333)=4444:beef lw(9abc:5678)=9abc5678 lh+2=9abc
SPU 16no   dev4=200911ef sw(aaaa5555 over 2222:1111)=2222:aaaa sh(beef over 4444:3333)=4444:beef lw(9abc:5678)=56785678 lh+2=9abc
SPU 8inc   dev4=200921ef sw(aaaa5555 over 2222:1111)=ffaa:ff55 sh(beef over 4444:3333)=4444:ffbe lw(9abc:5678)=bcbc7878 lh+2=bcbc
SPU 8no    dev4=200901ef sw(aaaa5555 over 2222:1111)=2222:ffaa sh(beef over 4444:3333)=4444:ffbe lw(9abc:5678)=78787878 lh+2=bcbc
ROM bios   dev2=0013243f lw 3c080013 3508243f 3c011f80 ac281010 lh 0013 3c08 243f 3508 lb 13 00 08 3c 3f 24 08 35
ROM noinc  dev2=0013043f lw 13131313 3f3f3f3f 80808080 10101010 lh 1313 0808 3f3f 0808 lb 13 00 08 3c 3f 24 08 35
SPU 16inc  dev4=200931ef sw(aaaa5555 over 2222:1111)=aaaa:5555 sh(beef over 4444:3333)=4444:beef lw(9abc:5678)=9abc5678 lh+2=9abc
SPU 16no   dev4=200911ef sw(aaaa5555 over 2222:1111)=2222:aaaa sh(beef over 4444:3333)=4444:beef lw(9abc:5678)=56785678 lh+2=9abc
SPU 8inc   dev4=200921ef sw(aaaa5555 over 2222:1111)=ffaa:ff55 sh(beef over 4444:3333)=4444:ffbe lw(9abc:5678)=bcbc7878 lh+2=bcbc
SPU 8no    dev4=200901ef sw(aaaa5555 over 2222:1111)=2222:ffaa sh(beef over 4444:3333)=4444:ffbe lw(9abc:5678)=78787878 lh+2=bcbc
AUTOINC-DONE
ResetGraph:jtb=801e78b8,env=801e7900

bench.txt:

2336 bytes of TTY text in psx.log

when.txt:

20261022T2232Z

References