List of Registers

16.11Arbiter Control

This chapter describes the arbitration control registers. See Chapter 10 for theory of operation information.

Table 115. Arbiter Control Register

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

Primary byte offset: D3:D2h

Secondary byte offset: D3:D2h

Bit

Name

R/W

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Each bit controls whether a secondary bus master is assigned to the high

 

 

 

priority arbiter ring or the low priority arbiter ring. Bits [8:0] correspond to

 

 

 

request inputs s_req_l[8:0], respectively. Bit [9] corresponds to the internal

9:0

Arbiter Control

R/W

21555 secondary bus request.

• When 0, indicates that the master belongs to the low priority group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

• When 1, indicates that the master belongs to the high priority group.

 

 

 

• Reset value is 10 0000 0000b.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Controls whether the 21555 parks on itself or on the last master to use the

 

 

 

bus.

 

 

 

• When 0, during bus idle, the 21555 parks the bus on the last master to

10

Bus Parking

R/W

use the bus.

Control

• When 1, during bus idle, the 21555 parks the bus on itself. The bus

 

 

 

 

 

grant is removed from the last master and internally asserted to the

 

 

 

21555.

 

 

 

• Reset value is 0b.

 

 

 

 

15:11

Reserved

R

Reserved. Returns 0 when read.

 

 

 

 

16.12Error Registers

This section describes the primary and secondary SERR# disable registers. See Chapter 12 for theory of operation information.

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21555 specifications

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