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Raven PCI Bridge ASIC

Table 2-1. Features of the Raven ASIC (Continued)

Function

Features

 

 

Interrupt Controller

MPIC compliant

 

 

 

Support for 16 external interrupt sources and two processors

 

 

 

Multiprocessor interrupt control allowing any interrupt source to be

 

directed to either processor

 

 

 

Multilevel cross-processor interrupt control for multiprocessor

 

synchronization

 

 

 

Four 31-bit tick timers

 

 

Processor

Two 64-bit general purpose registers for cross-processor messaging

Coordination

 

 

 

Block Diagram

Figure 2-1shows a functional block diagram of the Raven ASIC. The Raven control logic is subdivided into the following functions:

PCI slave

PCI master

MPC slave

MPC master

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