AMD SC1201, SC1200 manual IRQ Configuration Registers, Internal IRQ Enable Register, LPC Interface

Core Logic Module 32579B

6.2.12.4 IRQ Configuration Registers

The Core Logic module provides the ability to set and clear IRQs internally through software control. If the IRQs are configured for software control, they do not respond to external hardware. There are two registers provided for this feature:

•Internal IRQ Enable Register (F3BAR0+Memory Offset 1Ah)

•Internal IRQ Control Register (F3BAR0+Memory Offset 1Ch)

Internal IRQ Enable Register

The Internal IRQ Enable register configures the IRQs as internal (software) interrupts or external (hardware) inter- rupts. Any IRQ used as an internal software driven source must be configured as internal.

Internal IRQ Control Register

The Internal IRQ Control register allows individual software assertion/de-assertion of the IRQs that are enabled as internal. These bits are used as masks when attempting to write a particular IRQ bit. If the mask bit is set, it can then be asserted/de-asserted according to the value in the low- order 16 bits. Otherwise the assertion/de-assertion values of the particular IRQ can not be changed.

6.2.12.5 LPC Interface

The LPC interface of the Core Logic module is based on the Intel Low Pin Count (LPC) Interface specification, revi- sion 1.0. In addition to the requirement pins that are speci- fied in the Intel LPC Interface specification, the Core Logic module also supports three optional pins: LDRQ#, SER- IRQ, and LPCPD#.

The following subsections briefly describe some sections of the specification. However, for full details refer to the LPC specification directly.

The goals of the LPC interface are to:

•Enable a system without an ISA bus.

•Reduce the cost of traditional ISA bus devices.

•Use on a motherboard only.

•Perform the same cycle types as the ISA bus: memory, I/ O, DMA, and Bus Master.

•Increase the memory space from 16 MB to 4 GB to allow BIOS sizes much greater.

•Provide synchronous design. Much of the challenge of an ISA design is meeting the different, and in some cases conflicting, ISA timings. Make the timings synchronous to a reference well known to component designers, such as PCI.

•Support software transparency: do not require special drivers or configuration for this interface. The mother- board BIOS should be able to configure all devices at boot.

•Support desktop and mobile implementations.

•Enable support of a variable number of wait states.

•Enable I/O memory cycle retries in SMM handler.

•Enable support of wakeup and other power state transi- tions.

Assumptions and functionality requirements of the LPC interface are:

•Only the following class of devices may be connected to the LPC interface:

—SuperI/O (FDC, SP, PP, IR, KBC) - I/O slave, DMA, bus master (for IR, PP).

—Audio, including AC97 style design - I/O slave, DMA, bus master.

—Generic Memory, including BIOS - Memory slave.

—System Management Controller - I/O slave, bus master.

•Interrupts are communicated with the serial interrupt (SERIRQ) protocol.

•The LPC interface does not need to support high-speed buses (such as CardBus, 1394, etc.) downstream, nor does it need to support low-latency buses such as USB.

Figure 6-15shows a typical setup. In this setup, the LPC is connected through the Core Logic module to a PCI or host bus.

ISA (Optional) PCI/Host Bus

Core Logic

Module

LPC

SuperI/O Module

KBC	SP
PP	FDC

Figure 6-15. Typical Setup

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