User`s guide

The XMI

This chapter describes the XMI system bus, which includes a backplane

and bus interconnect, protocol, and logic.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• XMI Overview

• XMI Addressing

• Arbitration Cycles

• XMI Cycles

• XMI Transactions

• Cache Coherency

• XMI Initialization

• XMI Registers

• XMI Errors

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