Reference Design Example

4.13Peripheral information block

The Peripheral Information Block (PIB) is a block of 32 words in ROM that provides you with information about the peripherals used in the design. The PIB is located at the top of the address space for the logic module.

Each word in the PIB provides information about one peripheral. A value of 0x00000000 indicates that there is no entry and that the next address must be checked. Each valid entry contains the information shown in Table 4-18.

 

 

Table 4-18 PIB entry format

 

 

 

Bits

Name

Function

 

 

 

31:24

Peripheral Base

Bits [27:20] of the peripheral base address.

 

 

Bits [31:28] of the address are defined by the location of

 

 

the logic module in the stack see Address assignment of

 

 

logic modules on page 4-5.

 

 

 

23:8

Peripheral ID

For a PrimeCell, this is the PrimeCell number in BCD. For

 

 

example, the VIC PrimeCell PL190 would be represented

 

 

by 0x0190.

 

 

For other peripherals the value 0xFFnn is assigned, where

 

 

nn is a unique look-up value. (See the AHBPIB HDL

 

 

source file for details.) The value 0xFFFF is a special case

 

 

that is used to indicate the FPGA build number.

 

 

 

7:0

Peripheral Rev

This gives the revision number of the peripheral in BCD.

 

 

For example, revision v1.2 is represented by 0x12.

 

 

 

The last address of the PIB is used to store the FPGA build number. Bits [31:8] are all 1 and bits [7:0] store the revision number in BCD.

Note

Use the ARM executable utility read_pib.axf, supplied on the IM-AD1 CD, to display the PIB information.

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