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DATA SHEET
PM7366 FREEDM-8
ISSUE 4
PMC-1970930
FRAME ENGINE AND DATA LINK MANAGER
9.5.4
PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL TO PMC-SIERRA,INC., AND FOR ITS CUSTOMERS’ INTERNAL USE
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CBI Bus Interface
The CBI bus interface provides access to the CBI address space of the FREEDM-8 blocks. The
CBI address space is set by the associated BAR in the PCI Configuration registers.
Write transfers to the CBI space always write all 32 bits provided that at least one byte enable is
asserted. A write command with all byte enables negated will be ignored. Read transfers always
return the 32 bits regardless of the status of the byte enables, as long as at least one byte enable
is asserted. A read command with all byte enables negated will be ignored.
9.5.5
Error / Bus Control
The Error/Bus Control block monitors signals from both the Target block and Master Block to
determine the direction of the PCI bus pads and to generate or check parity. After reset, the GPIC
sets all bi-directional PCI bus pads to inputs and monitors the bus for accesses. The Error/Bus
control unit remains in this state unless either the Master requests the PCI bus or the Target
responds to a PCI Master Access. The Error/Bus control unit decodes the state of each state
machine to determine the direction of each PCI bus signal.
All PCI bus devices are required to check and generate even parity across AD[31:0] and
C/BEB[3:0] signals. The GPIC generates parity on Master address and write data phases; the
target generates parity on read data phases. The GPIC is required to check parity on all PCI bus
phases even if it is not participating in the cycle. But, the GPIC will report parity errors only if the
GPIC is involved in the PCI cycle or if the GPIC detects an address parity error or data parity is
detected in a PCI special cycle. The GPIC updates the PCI Configuration Status register for all
detected error conditions.
9.6
Transmit DMA Controller
The Transmit DMA Controller block (TMAC) is a DMA controller which retrieves packet data from
host computer memory for transmission. The minimum packet data length is two bytes. The
TMAC communicates with the host computer bus through the master interface connected to PCI
Controller block (GPIC) which translates host bus specific signals from the host to the master
interface format. The TMAC uses the master interface whenever it wishes to initiate a host bus
read or write; in this case, the TMAC is the initiator and the host memory is the target.
The TMAC and the host exchange information using transmit descriptors (TDs). The descriptor
contains the size and location of buffers in host memory and the packet status information
associated with the data in each buffer. TDs are transferred from the TMAC to the host and vice
versa using descriptor reference queues. The TMAC maintains all the pointers for the operation
of the queues. The TMAC acquires buffers with data ready for transmission by reading TDRs
from a TDR ready queue. After a packet has been transmitted, the TMAC places the associated
TDR onto a TDR free queue.
To minimise host bus accesses, the TMAC maintains a descriptor reference table to store current
DMA information. This table contains separate DMA information entries for up to 128 transmit