Preliminary Information

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AMD Athlon™ XP Processor Model 8 Data Sheet

The Northbridge contains BIOS programmable registers to enable the system bus disconnect in response to Halt and Stop Grant special cycles. When the Northbridge receives the Halt or Stop Grant special cycle from the processor and, if there are no outstanding probes or data movements, the Northbridge deasserts CONNECT a minimum of eight SYSCLK periods after the last command sent to the processor. The processor detects the deassertion of CONNECT on a rising edge of SYSCLK and deasserts PROCRDY to the Northbridge. In return, the Northbridge asserts CLKFWDRST in anticipation of reestablishing a connection at some later point.

Note: The Northbridge must disconnect the processor from the AMD Athlon system bus before issuing the Stop Grant special cycle to the PCI bus or passing the Stop Grant special cycle to the Southbridge for systems that connect to the Southbridge with HyperTransport™ technology.

This note applies to current chipset implementation— alternate chipset implementations that do not require this are possible.

Note: In response to Halt special cycles, the Northbridge passes the Halt special cycle to the PCI bus or Southbridge immediately.

The processor can receive an interrupt after it sends a Halt special cycle, or STPCLK# deassertion after it sends a Stop Grant special cycle to the Northbridge but before the disconnect actually occurs. In this case, the processor sends the Connect special cycle to the Northbridge, rather than continuing with the disconnect sequence. In response to the Connect special cycle, the Northbridge cancels the disconnect request.

The system is required to assert the CONNECT signal before returning the C-bit for the connect special cycle (assuming CONNECT has been deasserted).

For more information, see the AMD Athlon™ System Bus Specification, order# 21902 for the definition of the C-bit and the Connect special cycle.

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