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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Media and Switch Fabric Interface
8.9.3 SPI-4.2 Support
Data is transferred across the SPI-4.2 interface in variously-sized bursts and encapsulated with a
leading and trailing control word. The control words provide annotation of the data with port
address (0-255) information, start-of-packet and end-of-packet markers, and an error detection
code (DIP-4). Data must be transferred in 16-byte integer multiples, except for the final burst of a
packet.
The status interface transfers state as an array of state or calendar, two bits per port, for all of the
supported ports. The status information provides for reporting one of three status states for each
port (satisfied, hungry, and starving) corresponding to credit availability for the port. The mapping
of calendar offset to port is flexible. Individual ports may be repeated multiple times for greater
frequency of update.
8.9.3.1 SPI-4.2 Receiver
The network processor receiver stores received SPI-4.2 bursts into receiver buffers. The buffers
may be configured as 128 buffers of 64 bytes, 64 buffers of 128 bytes, or 32 buffers of 256 bytes.
Information from the control words, the length of the burst, and the TCP checksum of the data are
stored in an additional eight bytes of control storage. The buffers support storage of bursts
containing an amount of data that is less than or equal to the buffer size. A burst that is greater than
the configured size of the buffers is stored in multiple buffers. Each buffer is made available to
software as it becomes filled.
As the filling of each buffer completes, the buffer is dispatched to a thread of a Microengine that
has been registered in a free list of threads, and the eight bytes of control information are forwarded
to the register context of the thread. If no thread is currently available, the receiver waits for a new
thread to become available as other buffers are also filled (and then also have “waiting queues”).
Figure 112. SPI-4.2 Interface Reference Model with Receiver and Transmitter Labels
Corresponding to Link Layer Device Functions
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