User manual
Table Of Contents
- Intel® IXP2800 Network Processor
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction 1
- Technical Description 2
- 2.1 Overview
- 2.2 Intel XScale® Core Microarchitecture
- 2.3 Microengines
- 2.4 DRAM
- 2.5 SRAM
- 2.6 Scratchpad Memory
- 2.7 Media and Switch Fabric Interface
- 2.8 Hash Unit
- 2.9 PCI Controller
- 2.10 Control and Status Register Access Proxy
- 2.11 Intel XScale® Core Peripherals
- 2.12 I/O Latency
- 2.13 Performance Monitor
- Intel XScale® Core 3
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Features
- 3.3 Memory Management
- 3.4 Instruction Cache
- 3.5 Branch Target Buffer (BTB)
- 3.6 Data Cache
- 3.6.1 Overviews
- 3.6.2 Data Cache and Mini-Data Cache Operation
- 3.6.3 Data Cache and Mini-Data Cache Control
- 3.6.4 Reconfiguring the Data Cache as Data RAM
- 3.6.5 Write Buffer/Fill Buffer Operation and Control
- 3.7 Configuration
- 3.8 Performance Monitoring
- 3.9 Performance Considerations
- 3.9.1 Interrupt Latency
- 3.9.2 Branch Prediction
- 3.9.3 Addressing Modes
- 3.9.4 Instruction Latencies
- 3.9.4.1 Performance Terms
- 3.9.4.2 Branch Instruction Timings
- 3.9.4.3 Data Processing Instruction Timings
- 3.9.4.4 Multiply Instruction Timings
- 3.9.4.5 Saturated Arithmetic Instructions
- 3.9.4.6 Status Register Access Instructions
- 3.9.4.7 Load/Store Instructions
- 3.9.4.8 Semaphore Instructions
- 3.9.4.9 Coprocessor Instructions
- 3.9.4.10 Miscellaneous Instruction Timing
- 3.9.4.11 Thumb Instructions
- 3.10 Test Features
- 3.11 Intel XScale® Core Gasket Unit
- 3.12 Intel XScale® Core Peripheral Interface
- 3.12.1 XPI Overview
- 3.12.2 UART Overview
- 3.12.3 UART Operation
- 3.12.4 Baud Rate Generator
- 3.12.5 General Purpose I/O (GPIO)
- 3.12.6 Timers
- 3.12.7 Slowport Unit
- Microengines 4
- DRAM 5
- SRAM Interface 6
- SHaC - Unit Expansion 7
- Media and Switch Fabric Interface 8
- 8.1 Overview
- 8.2 Receive
- 8.3 Transmit
- 8.4 RBUF and TBUF Summary
- 8.5 CSIX Flow Control Interface
- 8.6 Deskew and Training
- 8.7 CSIX Startup Sequence
- 8.8 Interface to Command and Push and Pull Buses
- 8.9 Receiver and Transmitter Interoperation with Framers and Switch Fabrics
- 8.9.1 Receiver and Transmitter Configurations
- 8.9.2 System Configurations
- 8.9.2.1 Framer, Single Network Processor Ingress and Egress, and Fabric Interface Chip
- 8.9.2.2 Framer, Dual Network Processor Ingress, Single Network Processor Egress, and Fabric Interface Chip
- 8.9.2.3 Framer, Single Network Processor Ingress and Egress, and CSIX-L1 Chips for Translation and Fabric Interface
- 8.9.2.4 CPU Complex, Network Processor, and Fabric Interface Chip
- 8.9.2.5 Framer, Single Network Processor, Co-Processor, and Fabric Interface Chip
- 8.9.3 SPI-4.2 Support
- 8.9.4 CSIX-L1 Protocol Support
- 8.9.5 Dual Protocol (SPI and CSIX-L1) Support
- 8.9.6 Transmit State Machine
- 8.9.7 Dynamic De-Skew
- 8.9.8 Summary of Receiver and Transmitter Signals
- PCI Unit 9
- 9.1 Overview
- 9.2 PCI Pin Protocol Interface Block
- 9.2.1 PCI Commands
- 9.2.2 IXP2800 Network Processor Initialization
- 9.2.3 PCI Type 0 Configuration Cycles
- 9.2.4 PCI 64-Bit Bus Extension
- 9.2.5 PCI Target Cycles
- 9.2.6 PCI Initiator Transactions
- 9.2.7 PCI Fast Back-to-Back Cycles
- 9.2.8 PCI Retry
- 9.2.9 PCI Disconnect
- 9.2.10 PCI Built-In System Test
- 9.2.11 PCI Central Functions
- 9.3 Slave Interface Block
- 9.4 Master Interface Block
- 9.5 PCI Unit Error Behavior
- 9.5.1 PCI Target Error Behavior
- 9.5.1.1 Target Access Has an Address Parity Error
- 9.5.1.2 Initiator Asserts PCI_PERR_L in Response to One of Our Data Phases
- 9.5.1.3 Discard Timer Expires on a Target Read
- 9.5.1.4 Target Access to the PCI_CSR_BAR Space Has Illegal Byte Enables
- 9.5.1.5 Target Write Access Receives Bad Parity PCI_PAR with the Data
- 9.5.1.6 SRAM Responds with a Memory Error on One or More Data Phases on a Target Read
- 9.5.1.7 DRAM Responds with a Memory Error on One or More Data Phases on a Target Read
- 9.5.2 As a PCI Initiator During a DMA Transfer
- 9.5.2.1 DMA Read from DRAM (Memory-to-PCI Transaction) Gets a Memory Error
- 9.5.2.2 DMA Read from SRAM (Descriptor Read) Gets a Memory Error
- 9.5.2.3 DMA from DRAM Transfer (Write to PCI) Receives PCI_PERR_L on PCI Bus
- 9.5.2.4 DMA To DRAM (Read from PCI) Has Bad Data Parity
- 9.5.2.5 DMA Transfer Experiences a Master Abort (Time-Out) on PCI
- 9.5.2.6 DMA Transfer Receives a Target Abort Response During a Data Phase
- 9.5.2.7 DMA Descriptor Has a 0x0 Word Count (Not an Error)
- 9.5.3 As a PCI Initiator During a Direct Access from the Intel XScale® Core or Microengine
- 9.5.3.1 Master Transfer Experiences a Master Abort (Time-Out) on PCI
- 9.5.3.2 Master Transfer Receives a Target Abort Response During a Data Phase
- 9.5.3.3 Master from the Intel XScale® Core or Microengine Transfer (Write to PCI) Receives PCI_PERR_L on PCI Bus
- 9.5.3.4 Master Read from PCI (Read from PCI) Has Bad Data Parity
- 9.5.3.5 Master Transfer Receives PCI_SERR_L from the PCI Bus
- 9.5.3.6 Intel XScale® Core Microengine Requests Direct Transfer when the PCI Bus is in Reset
- 9.5.1 PCI Target Error Behavior
- 9.6 PCI Data Byte Lane Alignment
- Clocks and Reset 10
- 10.1 Clocks
- 10.2 Synchronization Between Frequency Domains
- 10.3 Reset
- 10.4 Boot Mode
- 10.5 Initialization
- Performance Monitor Unit 11
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Interface and CSR Description
- 11.3 Performance Measurements
- 11.4 Events Monitored in Hardware
- 11.4.1 Queue Statistics Events
- 11.4.2 Count Events
- 11.4.3 Design Block Select Definitions
- 11.4.4 Null Event
- 11.4.5 Threshold Events
- 11.4.6 External Input Events
- 11.4.6.1 XPI Events Target ID(000001) / Design Block #(0100)
- 11.4.6.2 SHaC Events Target ID(000010) / Design Block #(0101)
- 11.4.6.3 IXP2800 Network Processor MSF Events Target ID(000011) / Design Block #(0110)
- 11.4.6.4 Intel XScale® Core Events Target ID(000100) / Design Block #(0111)
- 11.4.6.5 PCI Events Target ID(000101) / Design Block #(1000)
- 11.4.6.6 ME00 Events Target ID(100000) / Design Block #(1001)
- 11.4.6.7 ME01 Events Target ID(100001) / Design Block #(1001)
- 11.4.6.8 ME02 Events Target ID(100010) / Design Block #(1001)
- 11.4.6.9 ME03 Events Target ID(100011) / Design Block #(1001)
- 11.4.6.10 ME04 Events Target ID(100100) / Design Block #(1001)
- 11.4.6.11 ME05 Events Target ID(100101) / Design Block #(1001)
- 11.4.6.12 ME06 Events Target ID(100110) / Design Block #(1001)
- 11.4.6.13 ME07 Events Target ID(100111) / Design Block #(1001)
- 11.4.6.14 ME10 Events Target ID(110000) / Design Block #(1010)
- 11.4.6.15 ME11 Events Target ID(110001) / Design Block #(1010)
- 11.4.6.16 ME12 Events Target ID(110010) / Design Block #(1010)
- 11.4.6.17 ME13 Events Target ID(110011) / Design Block #(1010)
- 11.4.6.18 ME14 Events Target ID(110100) / Design Block #(1010)
- 11.4.6.19 ME15 Events Target ID(110101) / Design Block #(1010)
- 11.4.6.20 ME16 Events Target ID(100110) / Design Block #(1010)
- 11.4.6.21 ME17 Events Target ID(110111) / Design Block #(1010)
- 11.4.6.22 SRAM DP1 Events Target ID(001001) / Design Block #(0010)
- 11.4.6.23 SRAM DP0 Events Target ID(001010) / Design Block #(0010)
- 11.4.6.24 SRAM CH3 Events Target ID(001011) / Design Block #(0010)
- 11.4.6.25 SRAM CH2 Events Target ID(001100) / Design Block #(0010)
- 11.4.6.26 SRAM CH1 Events Target ID(001101) / Design Block #(0010)
- 11.4.6.27 SRAM CH0 Events Target ID(001110) / Design Block #(0010)
- 11.4.6.28 DRAM DPLA Events Target ID(010010) / Design Block #(0011)
- 11.4.6.29 DRAM DPSA Events Target ID(010011) / Design Block #(0011)
- 11.4.6.30 IXP2800 Network Processor DRAM CH2 Events Target ID(010100) / Design Block #(0011)
- 11.4.6.31 IXP2800 Network Processor DRAM CH1 Events Target ID(010101) / Design Block #(0011)
- 11.4.6.32 IXP2800 Network Processor DRAM CH0 Events Target ID(010110) / Design Block #(0011)

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Intel
®
IXP2800 Network Processor
Intel XScale
®
Core
32-Bit (Longword) Read
32-bit (longword) reads are independent of endianness. Byte lane 0 from the Intel XScale
®
core’s
data bus gets into the byte 0 location of the read register inside the Intel XScale
®
core, byte lane 1
from the Intel XScale
®
core’s data bus gets into the byte 1 location of the read register inside the
Intel XScale
®
core, etc. The software determines byte location, based on the endian setting.
3.10.1.1.2 The Intel XScale
®
Core Writing to the IXP2800
Network Processor
Writes by the Intel XScale
®
core can also be divided into the following three categories:
• Byte Write
• Word Write (16 bits)
• Longword write (32 bits)
Byte Write
When the Intel XScale
®
core writes a single byte to external memory, it puts the byte in the byte
lane where it intends to write it, along with the byte enable for that byte turned ON, based on the
endian setting of the system. Intel XScale
®
core register bits [7:0] always contain the byte to be
written, regardless of the B-bit setting.
For example, if the Intel XScale
®
core wants to write to byte 0 in the little-endian system, it puts
the byte in byte lane 0 and turns X_BE[0] to ON. If the system is big-endian, the Intel XScale
®
core puts byte 0 in byte lane 3 and turns X_BE[3] to ON. Other possible combinations of byte lanes
and byte enables are shown in the Table 47. Byte lanes other than the one currently being driven by
the Intel XScale
®
core, contain undefined data.
Table 46. Byte-Enable Generation by the Intel XScale
®
Core for 16-Bit Data Transfers in Little-
and Big-Endian Systems
Word to
be Read
Byte-Enables for Little-Endian System Byte-Enables for Big-Endian System
X_BE[0] X_BE[1] X_BE[2] X_BE[3] X_BE[0] X_BE[1] X_BE[2] X_BE[3]
Byte 0,
Byte 1
11000011
Byte 2,
Byte 3
00111100
Table 47. Byte-Enable Generation by the Intel XScale
®
Core for Byte Writes in Little- and
Big-Endian Systems
Byte Number
to be Written
Byte-Enables for Little-Endian Systems Byte-Enables for Big-Endian Systems
X_BE[0] X_BE[1] X_BE[2] X_BE[3] X_BE[0] X_BE[1] X_BE[2] X_BE[3]
Byte 0 10000001
Byte 1 01000010
Byte 2 00100100
Byte 3 00011000