Extended Temperature 82439TX (MTXC) Datasheet
10
PRELIMINARY
Name
Type
Description
AHOLD
O
3.3V/2.5V
Address Hold.
The MTXC asserts AHOLD when a PCI initiator is performing
a cycle to DRAM. AHOLD is held for the duration of the PCI burst transfer.
The MTXC will negate AHOLD when the completion of the PCI to DRAM read
or write cycles complete and during PCI peer transfers. AHOLD is kept
asserted while PHLDA# is asserted (i.e., duration of PIIX4 granting).
EADS#
O
3.3V/2.5V
External Address Strobe.
Asserted by the MTXC to inquire the first level
cache when servicing PCI master references of DRAM.
BOFF#
O
3.3V/2.5V
Back Off.
Asserted by the MTXC when required to terminate a CPU cycle
that was in progress.
HITM#
I
3.3V/2.5V
Hit Modified.
Asserted by the CPU to indicate that the address presented
with the last assertion of EADS# is modified in the first level cache and needs
to be written back.
M/IO#, D/C#,
W/R#
I
3.3V/2.5V
Memory/IO; Data/Control; Write/Read.
Asserted by the CPU with ADS# to
indicate the type of cycle that the system needs to perform.
HLOCK#
I
3.3V/2.5V
Host Lock.
All CPU cycles sampled with the assertion of HLOCK# and
ADS#, until the negation of HLOCK# must be atomic, i.e. no PCI activity to
DRAM is allowed.
CACHE#
I
3.3V/2.5V
Cache.
Asserted by the CPU during a read cycle to indicate the CPU will
perform a burst line fill. Asserted by the CPU during a write cycle to indicate
the CPU will perform a burst writeback cycle. If CACHE# is asserted to
indicate cacheability, the MTXC will assert KEN# either with the first BRDY#,
or with NA# if NA# is asserted before the first BRDY#.
KEN#/INV
O
3.3V/2.5V
Ken/Invalidate.
KEN#/INV functions as both the KEN# signal during CPU
read cycles, and the INV signal during L1 snoop cycles. During CPU cycles,
KEN#/INV is normally low. KEN#/INV is driven high during the 1st BRDY# or
NA# assertion of a non-L1-cacheable CPU read cycle.
KEN#/INV is driven high(low) during the EADS# assertion of a PCI master
DRAM write(read) snoop cycle. Note that KEN#/INV operation during snoop
cycles is independent of the FLCE bit programming.
SMIACT#
I
3.3V/2.5V
System Management Interrupt Active.
This is asserted by the CPU when it
is in system management mode as a result of an SMI. This signal must be
sampled active with ADS# for the processor to access the SMM space of
DRAM, located at A0000h, after SMM space has been loaded and locked by
BIOS at system boot.
HD[63:0]
I/O
3.3V/2.5V
Host Data.
These signals are connected to the CPU data bus. These signals
have internal pull-down resistors.
NOTES:
All of the signals in the host interface are described in the Pentium Processor data sheet. The preceding table
highlights MTXC specific uses of these signals.