System Control Module (SCM)
MCF52211 ColdFire® Integrated Microcontroller Reference Manual, Rev. 2
Freescale Semiconductor 12-9

12.6 Internal Bus Arbitration

The internal bus arbitration is performed by the on-chip bus arbiter , which containing the arbitration logic
that controls which of up to four MBus masters (M0–M3 in Figure 12-6) has access to the external buses.
The function of the arbitration logic is described in this section.
Figure 12-6. Arbiter Module Functions

12.6.1 Overview

The basic functionality is that of a 2-port, pipelined internal bus arbitration module with the following
attributes:
The master pointed to by the current arbitration pointer may get on the b us with zero latency if the
address phase is available. All other requesters face at least a one cycle arbitration pipeline delay
to meet bus timing constraints on address phase hold.
If a requester receives an immediate address phase (that is, it is pointed to by the current arbitration
pointer and the bus address phase is available), it is the current bus master and is ignored by
arbitration. All remaining requesting ports are evaluated by the arbitration algorithm to determine
the next-state arbitration pointer.
IPSBAR
Offset:
0x0013 (CWSR) Access: read/write
76543210
R
CWSR[7:0]
W
Reset: Uninitialized
Figure 12-5. Core Watchdog Service Register (CWSR)
SRAM1
MPARK RAMBAR
CPU
M0
DMA
M2
Internal
M1
Bus
Master Internal
MARB
Modules
Back door to SRAM and flash