Intel
®
81341 and 81342—PMON Unit
Intel
®
81341 and 81342 I/O Processors
Developer’s Manual
December 2007
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Order Number: 315037-002US
18.4.3
Incrementing By More Than 1
For scenarios where it is desired to increment a count by more than one on a single
clock tick, the
PMON
unit can be sent a “bit encoded” value. This allows the counters to
track an increment/decrement of up to 2
N-1
each clock tick, where N is the number of
counters available. For example, with 8 counters we could track an increment/
decrement of up to 128 (2
7
) each clock.
This would be done by assigning an array of events to represent a particular value to
count. The counters would be coordinated to mimic a single counter which by asserting
the appropriate event signals cause the set of counters to be incremented and/or
decremented by the in such a way that post processing of the counter values.
Figure 161. Block Diagram & Waveforms of Time Based Sampling Example
B6302-01