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APPENDIX A
This appendix provides an alphabetical listing of all
Pentium II processor signals. The tables at the end of
this appendix summarize the signals by direction:
output, input, and I/O.
A.1
ALPHABETICAL SIGNALS
REFERENCE
A.1.1
A[35:0]# (I/O)
The A[35:3]# (Address) signals define a 2
36
-byte
physical memory address space. When ADS# is
active, these pins transmit the address of a
transaction; when ADS# is inactive, these pins
transmit transaction type information. These signals
must connect the appropriate pins of all agents on
the Pentium II processor System Bus. The A[35:24]#
signals are parity-protected by the AP1# parity
signal, and the A[23:3]# signals are parity-protected
by the AP0# parity signal.
On the active-to-inactive transition of RESET#, the
processors sample the A[35:3]# pins to determine
their power-on configuration. See the Pentium
II
Processor Developer’s Manual(Order Number
243341) for details.
A.1.2
A20M# (I)
If the A20M# (Address-20 Mask) input signal is
asserted, the Pentium II processor masks physical
address bit 20 (A20#) before looking up a line in any
internal cache and before driving a read/write
transaction on the bus. Asserting A20M# emulates
the 8086 processor’s address wrap-around at the
1-Mbyte boundary. Assertion of A20M# is only
supported in real mode.
A20M# is an asynchronous signal. However, to
ensure recognition of this signal following an I/O write
instruction, it must be valid along with the TRDY#
assertion of the corresponding I/O Write bus
transaction.
During active RESET#, each processor begins
sampling the A20M#, IGNNE# , and LINT[1:0] values
to determine the ratio of core-clock frequency to bus-
clock frequency. (See Table 1.) On the active-to-
inactive transition of RESET#, each processor
latches these signals and freezes the frequency ratio
internally. System logic must then release these
signals for normal operation; see Figure 6 for an
example implementation of this logic.
A.1.3
ADS# (I/O)
The ADS# (Address Strobe) signal is asserted to
indicate the validity of the transaction address on the
A[35:3]# pins. All bus agents observe the ADS#
activation to begin parity
checking, address decode, internal snoop, or
deferred reply ID match operations associated with
the new transaction. This signal must connect the
appropriate pins on all Pentium II processor System
Bus agents.
checking,
protocol
A.1.4
AERR# (I/O)
The AERR# (Address Parity Error) signal is
observed and driven by all Pentium II processor
System Bus agents, and if used, must connect the
appropriate pins on all Pentium II processor System
Bus agents. AERR# observation is optionally
enabled during power-on configuration; if enabled, a
valid assertion of AERR# aborts the current
transaction.
If AERR# observation is disabled during power-on
configuration, a central agent may handle an
assertion of AERR# as appropriate to the Machine
Check Architecture (MCA) of the system.
A.1.5
AP[1:0]# (I/O)
The AP[1:0]# (Address Parity) signals are driven by
the request initiator along with ADS#, A[35:3]#,
REQ[4:0]#, and RP#. AP1# covers A[35:24]#, and