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6. STATUS AND INFORMATION REGISTERS
The DS21354/DS21554 have a set of seven registers that contain information on the current real-time
status of a framer—Status Register 1 (SR1), Status Register 2 (SR2), Receive Information Register (RIR),
Synchronizer Status Register (SSR), and a set of three registers for the on-board HDLC controller. The
specific details on the four registers pertaining to the HDLC controller are covered in Section
operate the same as the other status registers in the device and this operation is described below.
When a particular event has occurred (or is occurring), the appropriate bit in one of these four registers
will be set to a one. All of the bits in SR1, SR2, and RIR1 registers operate in a latched fashion. The
Synchronizer Status Register contents are not latched. This means that if an event or an alarm occurs and
a bit is set to a one in any of the registers, it will remain set until the user reads that bit. The bit will be
cleared when it is read and it will not be set again until the event has occurred again (or in the case of the
RUA1, RRA, RCL, and RLOS alarms, the bit will remain set if the alarm is still present).
The user will always proceed a read of any of the SR1, SR2, and RIR registers with a write. The byte
written to the register will inform the framer which bits the user wishes to read and have cleared. The user
will write a byte to one of these registers, with a one in the bit positions he or she wishes to read and a
zero in the bit positions he or she does not wish to obtain the latest information on. When a one is written
to a bit location, the read register will be updated with the latest information. When a zero is written to a
bit position, the read register will not be updated and the previous value will be held. A write to the status
and information registers will be immediately followed by a read of the same register. The read result
should be logically ANDed with the mask byte that was just written and this value should be written back
into the same register to insure that bit does indeed clear. This second write step is necessary because the
alarms and events in the status registers occur asynchronously in respect to their access via the parallel
port. This write-read-write scheme allows an external microcontroller or microprocessor to individually
poll certain bits without disturbing the other bits in the register. This operation is key in controlling the
DS21354/DS21554 with higher-order software languages.
The SSR register operates differently than the other three. It is a read only register and it reports the status
of the synchronizer in real time. This register is not latched and it is not necessary to precede a read of
this register with a write.
The SR1, SR2, and HSR registers have the unique ability to initiate a hardware interrupt via the
INT
output pin. Each of the alarms and events in the SR1, SR2, and HSR can be either masked or unmasked
from the interrupt pin via the Interrupt Mask Register 1 (IMR1), Interrupt Mask Register 2 (IMR2), and
HDLC Interrupt Mask Register (HIMR) respectively. The HIMR register is covered in Section
The interrupts caused by alarms in SR1 (namely RUA1, RRA, RCL, and RLOS) act differently than the
interrupts caused by events in SR1 and SR2 (namely RSA1, RDMA, RSA0, RSLIP, RMF, TMF, SEC,
TAF, LOTC, RCMF, and TSLIP). The alarm caused interrupts will force the
INT
pin low whenever the
alarm changes state (i.e., the alarm goes active or inactive according to the set/clear criteria in
The
INT
pin will be allowed to return high (if no other interrupts are present) when the user reads the
alarm bit that caused the interrupt to occur even if the alarm is still present.
The event caused interrupts will force the
INT
pin low when the event occurs. The
INT
pin will be
allowed to return high (if no other interrupts are present) when the user reads the event bit that caused the
interrupt to occur.
