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S5320 – PCI Match Maker: Mailbox Overview

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Figure 55. Add-On to PCI Mailbox Register

Mailbox Empty/Full Conditions

The PCI and Add-On interfaces each have a mailbox

status register. The PCI Mailbox Empty/Full Status

(MBEF) and Add-On Mailbox Empty/Full Status

(AMBEF) registers indicate the status of all bytes

within the mailbox registers. A write to an outgoing

mailbox sets the status bits for that mailbox. The byte

enables determine which bytes within the mailbox

become full (and which status bits are set).

An outgoing mailbox for one interface is an incoming

mailbox for the other. Therefore, incoming mailbox sta-

tus bit s on one interface are id entical to the

corresponding outgoing mailbox status bits on the

other interface. The following list shows the relation-

ship between the mailbox registers on the PCI and

Add-On interfaces.

A write to an outgoing mailbox also writes data into the

incoming mailbox on the other interface. It also sets

the status bits for the outgoing mailbox and the status

bits for the incoming mailbox on the other interface.

Reading the incoming mailbox clears the correspond-

ing status bit(s) in the Add-On and PCI mailbox status

registers (AMBEF and MBEF).

For example, a PCI write is performed to the PCI out-

going mailbox, writing bytes 0 and 1 (CBE0# and

CBE1# asserted). Reading the PCI Mailbox Empty/

Full Status Register (MBEF) indicates that bits 12 and

13 are set. These bits indicate that outgoing mailbox

bytes 0 and 1 are full. Reading the Add-On Mailbox

Empty/Full Status Register (AMBEF) shows that bits

12 and 13 in this register are also set, indicating the

Add-On incoming mailbox bytes 0 and 1 are full. An

Add-On read of the incoming mailbox, bytes 0 and 1,

clears the status bits in both the MBEF and AMBEF

status registers.

The read-only status flags in the MBEF and AMBEF

registers are reset when the corresponding byte is

read from the incoming mailbox. Alternately, these

flags can be globally reset from either the PCI inter-

face or the Add-On interface. The PCI Bus Reset

Control Register (RCR) and the Add-On Reset Control

mailbox status flags.

Mailbox Interrupts

The designer has the option to generate interrupts to

the PCI and Add-On interfaces when specific mailbox

events occur. The PCI and Add-On interfaces can

each define two conditions where interrupts may be

generated. An interrupt can be generated when the

incoming mailbox becomes full and/or when the outgo-

ing mailbox becomes empty. A specific byte within a

specific mailbox is selected to generate the interrupt.

The conditions defined to generate interrupts to the

PCI interface do not have to be the same as the condi-

tions defined for the Add-On interface.

For the incoming mailbox interrupts, when the speci-

fied byte becomes full, an interrupt is generated. The

interrupt might be used to indicate command or status

information has been provided, and must be read. For

OUTPUT

INTERLOCK

PCI CLK

PCI

INCOMMING

MAILBOX

ADCLK

ADD-ON BUS

PCI BUS

PCI READ

MAILBOX

FULL

WR#

SELECT#

ADR -MB

ADCLK

PCI Interface

Add-On Interface

Outgoing Mailbox

Incoming Mailbox

Outgoing Mailbox

PCI Mailbox Empty/

Full

Add-On Mailbox Empty/

Full

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