List of Registers

16.5.3Device-Specific Control and Status Registers

This section contains information about the device-specific control and status registers.

Table 76. Device-Specific Control and Status Address Map

Byte 3

 

Byte 2

Byte 1

 

Byte 0

Primary

Secondary

 

 

Offset

Offset

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chip Control 1

 

Chip Control 0

CCh

CCh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chip Status

D0h

D0h

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table 77. Chip Control 0 Register (Sheet 1 of 4)

This register may be preloaded by serial ROM or programmed by the local processor before host configuration.

Primary byte offset: CD:CCh

Secondary byte offset: CD:CCh

Bit

Name

R/W

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Controls the 21555’s behavior on the initiator bus when a master abort

 

 

 

termination occurs in response to a delayed transaction initiated by the

 

 

 

21555 on the target bus.

 

 

 

• When 0, the 21555 asserts TRDY# in response to a delayed

0

Master Abort

R/W

transaction, and returns FFFFFFFFh if a read. For posted writes,

Mode

SERR is not asserted on the initiator bus.

 

 

 

 

 

• When 1, the 21555 returns a target abort in response to a delayed

 

 

 

transaction. For posted writes, SERR will be asserted (if otherwise

 

 

 

enabled) on the initiator bus.

 

 

 

• Reset value is 0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Controls the disconnect boundary for memory writes. This bit does not

 

 

 

apply to MWI commands.

 

Memory Write

 

• When 0, the 21555 disconnects memory writes either on an aligned 4

 

 

KB boundary, a page boundary less than 4 KB (Upstream Memory

1

Disconnect

R/W

Range 2 only) or when the posted write queue is full.

 

Control

 

 

 

• When 1, the 21555 disconnects memory write on an aligned cache

 

 

 

 

 

 

line boundary, or when the posted write queue is full.

 

 

 

• Reset value is 0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sets the maximum number of PCI clock cycles that the 21555 waits for an

 

 

 

initiator on the primary bus to repeat a delayed transaction request. The

 

 

 

counter starts when the delayed transaction completion is ready to be

 

 

 

returned to the initiator. When the initiator has not repeated the transaction

 

Primary

 

at least once before the counter expires, the 21555 discards the delayed

 

 

transaction from its queues.

2

Master

R/W

• When 0, the primary master timeout counter is 215 PCI clock cycles, or

 

Timeout

 

 

 

 

0.983 ms for a 33-MHz bus.

 

 

 

• When 1, the value is 210 PCI clock cycles, or 30.7 s for a 33-MHz

 

 

 

bus.

 

 

 

• Reset value is 0

 

 

 

 

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21555 specifications

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