Re: about protocol

[Mike Dini <mdini@dinigroup.com>]

>Suppose a TARGET violates the rule "The target must transfer the first 
>data item within 16 clocks from the assertion of FRAME#  or within 8 
>clocks for subsequent data phases" then what should be the MASTER'S action?
>Can it deassert the FRAME# and IRDY# siganals and go to idle state?

The master should continue to wait for the data to be transferred.  After 
some amount of time (thousands of clocks or more) the master should timeout 
and go back to idle, but report an error to the master that requested the 
transfer.

Note that bridges are not bound by this 8/16 delay.