Hardware Reference Manual
421 Intelligent Serial, 8-Port
Connection to
Host PCI Bridge
DRAM
FLASH
L
LL
o
oo
ca
aa
l
ll
P
P
P
r
rr
o
oo
c
cc
e
ee
s
ss
so
oo
r
rr
B
B
B
u
uu
s
s
cc
ss
s
UART
Signal
Driver
UART
Signal
Driver
UART
Signal
Driver
UART
Signal
Driver
UART
Signal
Driver
UART
Signal
Driver
UART
Signal
Driver
UART
Signal
Driver
RISC CPU
2.1 Functional Components
The PMC421 can be broken into several functional components:
•
PCI Interface
•
intelligent Co-Processor (IOCP) Firmware execution
•
UART (Data serializes)
•
Signaling Drivers
The following paragraphs describe each component.
DDC No. Rx-URMH 002 Rev -
Issued 12 November 2002
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