Intel IXP43X manual Signal Interface, Expansion Bus Signal Recommendations Sheet 1 of

Hardware Design Guidelines—Intel®IXP43X Product Line of Network Processors

3.3Expansion Bus

The Expansion Bus of the IXP43X network processors is specifically designed for compatibility with Intel-and Motorola* style microprocessor interfaces.

The expansion bus controller includes a 24-bit address bus and a 16-bit wide data path, running at a maximum speed of 80 MHz from an external clock oscillator. The bus can be configure to support the following target devices:

•	Intel multiplexed	•	Intel non-multiplexed
•	Intel StrataFlash®	•	Synchronous Intel StrataFlash® Memory
•	Motorola non multiplexed	•	Motorola multiplexed

The expansion bus controller also has an arbiter that supports up to four external devices that can master the expansion bus. External masters can be used to access external slave devices that reside on the expansion bus, including access to internal memory mapped regions within the IXP43X network processors.

All supported modes are seamless and no additional glue logic is required. Other cycle types can be supported by configuring the Timing and Control Register for Chip Select.

The expansion interface functions support 8-bit or 16-bit data operation and allows an address range of 512 bytes to 16 MBs, using 24 address lines for each of the four independent chip selects.

Access to the expansion-bus interface is completed in five phases. Each of the five phases can be lengthened or shortened by setting various configuration registers on a per-chip-select basis. This feature allows the IXP43X network processors to connect to a wide variety of peripheral devices with varying speeds.The expansion interface supports Intel or Motorola* microprocessor style bus cycles. The bus cycles can be configured to be multiplexed address/data cycles or separate address/data cycles for each of the four chip-selects.

The expansion interface is an asynchronous interface to externally connected chips. A clock is supplied to the IXP43X network processors expansion interface for the interface to operate. This clock can be driven from GPIO 15 or an external source. Devices on the expansion bus can be clocked by an external clock at a rate of up to 80 MHz. If GPIO 15 is used as the clock source, the Expansion Bus interface can only be clocked at a maximum of 33.33 MHz. GPIO 15’s maximum clock rate is 33.33 MHz.

3.3.1Signal Interface

Table 5.	Expansion Bus Signal Recommendations (Sheet 1 of 2)
		Type	Pull
Name			Up	Recommendations
		Field
			Down
EX_CLK		I	No	Use series termination resistor, 10Ω to 33Ω at the source.
EX_ALE		TRI O	No	Use series termination resistor, 10Ω to 33Ω at the source.
				Use 470Ω resistors for pull-downs; required for boot strapping for initial configuration of
				Configuration Register 0. Pull-ups are not required as for when the system comes out of
EX_ADDR[23:0]		I/O	Yes	reset, all bits are initially set HIGH. For more details, see Table 6.
				For additional details on address strapping, see the Intel® IXP43X Product Line of Network
				Processors Developer’s Manual.
EX_WR_N		I/O	No	Use series termination resistor, 10Ω to 33Ω at the source.
EX_RD_N		I/O	No	Use series termination resistor, 10Ω to 33Ω at the source.

	Intel® IXP43X Product Line of Network Processors
April 2007	HDG
Document Number: 316844; Revision: 001US	21