Spectrum Signal Processing

Monaco Technical Reference

 

VME64 Bus Interface

Before a host can transfer data through a node’s HPI, the VME host must set the HWOB bit of the node’s HPIC register to “1”. This only has to be done once after the Monaco board is reset. To access an address within a ‘C6x’s memory space, the VME host loads the address into the HPIA register. Data is then transferred through the HPID register.

The HPID at offset “8h” auto-increments four bytes after every cycle, allowing it to be used for burst DMA data transfers.

The HPID at offset “Ch” does not auto-increment, and is therefore intended for single cycle accesses only.

The HPID DMA Space offers a 16K address space to VME hosts which increment their target address during DMA transfers. This allows them to transfer data in blocks of 16K 32-bit words to the HPID register used for DMA transfers.

4.4.Master A32/A24/A16 SCV64 Interface

As a VME master, the Monaco board supports A16, A24, or A32 transactions from any node to the VME64 bus through the SCV64 chip. Any node can program the SCV64’s DMA Controller for VME Master Accesses, and can directly master the VMEbus. Each node has its own VPAGE Register to support the KFC, KSIZE, and upper 12 and lower 2 address bits to the SCV64. The upper 11 bits extend the 20-bit address space of the ‘C6x to the full 32-bit address space of the VME bus. Any node can monitor the status of the /KIPL interrupt lines, BUSERRORs for each node, and KAVEC line by reading the VSTATUS Register.

The Monaco board supports Auto-Syscon capabilities allowing it to become the System Controller board when placed in the leftmost slot of the VME backplane. If it is to be the System Controller it should typically be booted from a PEM module equipped with a boot PROM.

Upon reset, the SCV64 is in Bus-Isolation Mode (BI-Mode) which isolates the SCV64 from the VME64 bus. The SCV64 is released from BI-Mode by a write to the SCV64 Location Monitor from any node of the Monaco board.

Part Number 500-00191

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Spectrum Brands C6x VME64 manual Master A32/A24/A16 SCV64 Interface