4 Hardware Reference Manual
Contents
2.6 Scratchpad Memory............................................................................................................56
2.6.1 Scratchpad Atomic Operations .............................................................................. 57
2.6.2 Ring Commands .................................................................................................... 57
2.7 Media and Switch Fabric Interface ..................................................................................... 59
2.7.1 SPI-4......................................................................................................................60
2.7.2 CSIX ...................................................................................................................... 61
2.7.3 Receive.................................................................................................................. 61
2.7.3.1 RBUF ..................................................................................................... 62
2.7.3.1.1 SPI-4 and the RBUF .............................................................. 62
2.7.3.1.2 CSIX and RBUF..................................................................... 63
2.7.3.2 Full Element List .................................................................................... 63
2.7.3.3 RX_THREAD_FREELIST ...................................................................... 63
2.7.3.4 Receive Operation Summary................................................................. 64
2.7.4 Transmit................................................................................................................. 65
2.7.4.1 TBUF...................................................................................................... 65
2.7.4.1.1 SPI-4 and TBUF..................................................................... 66
2.7.4.1.2 CSIX and TBUF ..................................................................... 67
2.7.4.2 Transmit Operation Summary................................................................ 67
2.7.5 The Flow Control Interface .................................................................................... 68
2.7.5.1 SPI-4...................................................................................................... 68
2.7.5.2 CSIX....................................................................................................... 68
2.8 Hash Unit............................................................................................................................ 69
2.9 PCI Controller ..................................................................................................................... 71
2.9.1 Target Access........................................................................................................ 71
2.9.2 Master Access ....................................................................................................... 71
2.9.3 DMA Channels....................................................................................................... 71
2.9.3.1 DMA Descriptor...................................................................................... 72
2.9.3.2 DMA Channel Operation........................................................................ 73
2.9.3.3 DMA Channel End Operation ................................................................ 74
2.9.3.4 Adding Descriptors to an Unterminated Chain....................................... 74
2.9.4 Mailbox and Message Registers............................................................................ 74
2.9.5 PCI Arbiter ............................................................................................................. 75
2.10 Control and Status Register Access Proxy......................................................................... 76
2.11 Intel XScale
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Core Peripherals .......................................................................................... 76
2.11.1 Interrupt Controller................................................................................................. 76
2.11.2 Timers....................................................................................................................77
2.11.3 General Purpose I/O.............................................................................................. 77
2.11.4 Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter...................................................... 77
2.11.5 Slowport.................................................................................................................77
2.12 I/O Latency ......................................................................................................................... 78
2.13 Performance Monitor ..........................................................................................................78
3 Intel XScale
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Core ....................................................................................................................... 79
3.1 Introduction......................................................................................................................... 79
3.2 Features.............................................................................................................................. 80
3.2.1 Multiply/ACcumulate (MAC)................................................................................... 80
3.2.2 Memory Management............................................................................................ 80
3.2.3 Instruction Cache................................................................................................... 81
3.2.4 Branch Target Buffer (BTB) ................................................................................... 81
3.2.5 Data Cache............................................................................................................ 81
3.2.6 Performance Monitoring ........................................................................................ 81