PCI-X Layout Guidelines

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This chapter describes several factors to be considered with a 41210 Bridge PCI/PCI-X design. These include the PCI IDSEL, PCI RCOMP, PCI Interrupts and PCI arbitration.

8.1Interrupts

PCI Express provides interrupt messages that emulate the legacy wired mechanism. This allows IO devices to signal PCI-style interrupts using a pair of ASSERT and DEASSERT messages This message pairing preserves the level-sensitive semantics of the PCI interrupts on PCI Express.

The 41210 Bridge uses four interrupts - A_INTA:A_INTD on bus A segment and four interrupts B_INTA:B_INTD that corresponding to the four interrupts defined in the PCI specification. The 41210 Bridge routes its PCI interrupt pins and the internal interrupts, to PCI Express INTx interrupts according to Table 4.

Table 4. INTx Routing Table

A_INT# Interrupt Pins

B_INT# Interrupt Pins

PCI Express INTx Message

 

 

 

A_INTA

B_INTA

INTA

 

 

 

A_INTB

B_INTB

INTB

 

 

 

A_INTC

B_INTC

INTC

 

 

 

A_INTD

B_INTD

INTD

 

 

 

The 41210 Bridge will use its primary bus number and device number in the Requester ID field for the PCI Express INTx messages. As stated in the PCI Express specification, the function number is reserved for interrupt messages and will always be 0.

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