Functional Description
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2.5
Bus Structure
2.5.1
Host-to-PCI Bridge
The integrated host-to-PCI bridge is used as host bridge and memory controller for
the PowerPC processor. All transactions of the PowerPC to the PCI bus are
controlled by the host bridge. The FRAM and boot Flash are connected to the local
memory bus of the integrated host-to-PCI bridge.
The PCI interface is PCI bus Rev. 2.2 compliant and supports all bus commands and
transactions. Master and target operations are possible. Only big-endian operation is
supported.
2.5.2
Local PCI Bus
The local PCI bus is controlled by the integrated host-to-PCI bridge. It runs at
33 MHz. 64-bit/66-MHz PCI bus operation is available on request. In this case rows
C and D of board-to-board connector J2 are used for the 64-bit extension signals.
(See
Chapter 2.14 Board-to-Board I/O Connector on page 48
.)
The I/O voltage is fixed to 3.3V. The data width is 32 bits.
The FPGA is connected to the local PCI bus.
2.5.3
PCI-to-PCI Bridge
The A14C has a secondary PCI bus for accesses to PMC modules. It is controlled by
a PCI-to-PCI bridge of type PCI6154 from PLX.
2.5.4
PCI-to-VMEbus Bridge
The board has a PCI-to-VME bridge for connection to the VMEbus. It is
implemented in an additional FPGA. On the local PCI bus this bridge is a master.
The local processor can thus freely access the VMEbus (master). For
communication in multiprocess applications, the bridge has a fast communication
memory of 1 MB size. This memory can be accessed both from the local processor
and from the VMEbus (slave).