Overview: Additional Information
ATCA-9305 User’s Manual 10009109-01
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Terminology and Notation
Active low signals: An active low signal is indicated with an asterisk * after the signal name.
Byte, word: Throughout this manual byte refers to 8 bits, word refers to 16 bits, and long word refers to
32 bits, double long word refers to 64 bits.
PLD: This manual uses the acronym, PLD, as a generic term for programmable logic device (also
known as FPGA, CPLD, EPLD, etc.).
Radix 2 and 16: Hexadecimal numbers end with a subscript 16. Binary numbers are shown with a
subscript2.
Technical References
Further information on basic operation and programming of the ATCA-9305 components
can be found in documents listed in Table 1- 2.
Table 1-2: Technical References
Device /
Interface: Document: 1
ATCA AdvancedTCA® Base Specification
(PICMG® 3.0 Revision 2.0 March 18, 2005)
Engineering Change Notice 3.0-1.0-001
(PICMG® 3.0 R2.0: ECN 3.0-2.0-001 June 15, 2005)
Ethernet/Fibre Channel for AdvancedTCA™ Systems
(PICMG® 3.1 Revision 1.0 January 22, 2003)
http://www.picmg.org
CPU
CN5860
MPC8548
Cavium Networks OCTEON™ Plus CN58XX Hardware Reference Manual
(Cavium Networks, CN58XX-HM-1.2 Sept. 2008)
http:/www.caviumnetworks.com
MPC8548E PowerQUICC™ III Integrated Processor Family Reference Manual
(Freescale™ Semiconductor, Inc. MPC8548ERM Rev.2, 02/2007
http://www.freescale.com
DRAM 576Mb: x9, x18, x36 2.5V VEXT, 1.8C VDD, HSTL, CIO,RLDRAM II Data Sheet
(Micron Technology, Inc. 576Mb_RLDRAM_II_CIO_D1.fm - Rev C 9/07 EN)
http://www.micron.com
EEPROM Atmel® 2-Wire Serial EEPROM 64K (8192 x 8) Preliminary Data Sheet
(Atmel Corporation, 5174C-SEEPR-6/07)
http://www.atmel.com
Ethernet
BCM5461S
BCM5482
10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver Data Sheet
(Broadcom® Corporation, Document 5461S-DS17-R 5/12/08)
10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver Data Sheet
(Broadcom® Corporation, Document 5482-DS04-R 10/18/07)
http://www.broadcom.com