List of Registers

Table 104. Primary Clear IRQ Mask and Secondary Clear IRQ Mask Registers

These registers affect primary and secondary interrupts in the same way and are described

 

 

 

 

Primary Clear IRQ Mask

Secondary Clear IRQ Mask

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Byte Offset:

 

0A1:0A0h

0A3:0A2h

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bit

Name

R/W

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• When 0, an interrupt is generated on the 21555’s primary or

 

 

 

 

 

secondary interface when the corresponding Primary or

 

 

 

 

 

Secondary Interrupt Request bit is a 1.

 

 

 

 

 

• When 1, the corresponding interrupt request bit cannot generate

15:0

CLR_IRQM

R/W1TC

an interrupt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Writing a 1 to a bit in this register clears the IRQ Mask bit to 0.

 

 

 

 

 

Writing a 0 to any bit in this register has no effect. Reading this

 

 

 

 

 

register returns the current status of the IRQ Mask bits.

 

 

 

 

 

• Reset value is FFFFFFFFh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table 105. Primary Set IRQ Mask and Secondary Set IRQ Mask Registers

These registers affect primary and secondary interrupts in the same way and are described together.

 

Offsets

 

Primary Set IRQ Mask

 

Secondary Set IRQ Mask

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Byte

 

0A5:0A4h

 

 

0A7:0A6h

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bit

Name

R/W

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• When 0, an interrupt is generated on the 21555’s primary or

 

 

 

 

 

secondary interface when the corresponding Primary or

 

 

 

 

 

Secondary Interrupt Request bit is a 1.

 

 

 

 

• When 1, the corresponding interrupt request bit cannot

15:0

SET_IRQM

R/W1TS

 

generate an interrupt.

 

 

 

 

 

Writing a 1 to a bit in this register sets the IRQ Mask bit to 1.

 

 

 

 

 

Writing a 0 to any bit in this register has no effect. Reading this

 

 

 

 

 

register returns the current status of the IRQ Mask bits.

Reset value is FFFFFFFFh

16.8Scratchpad Registers

See Chapter 11 for theory of operation information.

Table 106. Scratchpad 0 Through Scratchpad 7 Registers (Sheet 1 of 2)

Bit

Name

R/W

Byte Offset:

Description

 

 

 

 

 

31:0

SCRATCH0

R/W

0AB:0A8h

32-bit scratchpad register 0.

 

 

 

 

 

31:0

SCRATCH1

R/W

0AF:0ACh

32-bit scratchpad register 1.

 

 

 

 

 

31:0

SCRATCH2

R/W

0B3:0B0h

32-bit scratchpad register 2.

 

 

 

 

 

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21555 specifications

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