4.1.4

Arbitration Signals

 

 

 

 

Table 4.5 describes the Arbitration Signals group.

Table 4.5

Arbitration Signals

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name

Pin No.

Type

Strength

Description

 

 

 

 

 

REQ/

200, A4

O

16 mA PCI

Request indicates to the system arbiter that this agent

 

 

 

 

 

desires use of the PCI bus. This is a point-to-point signal.

 

 

 

 

 

Every master has its own REQ/ signal.

 

 

 

 

 

GNT/

199, B5

I

N/A

Grant indicates to the agent that access to the PCI bus has

 

 

 

 

 

been granted. This is a point-to-point signal. Every master

 

 

 

 

 

has its own GNT/ signal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.1.5 Error Reporting Signals

Table 4.6 describes the Error Reporting Signals group.

Table 4.6

Error Reporting Signals

 

 

 

 

Name

Pin No.

Type

Description

 

 

 

 

 

PERR/

19

 

S/T/S

Parity Error may be pulsed active by an agent that detects a data

 

 

 

 

parity error. PERR/ can be used by any agent to signal data corruption.

 

 

 

 

However, on detection of a PERR/ pulse, the central resource may

 

 

 

 

generate a nonmaskable interrupt to the host CPU, which often implies

 

 

 

 

the system is unable to continue operation once error processing is

 

 

 

 

complete.

 

 

 

 

 

SERR/

78

 

O

System Error is an open drain output used to report address parity

 

 

 

 

errors.

 

 

 

 

 

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