Revision 1.02 – June 27, 2006
S5935 – PCI Product
MAILBOX OVERVIEW
Data Book
On interface. One outgoing and one incoming mailbox
on each interface can be configured to generate
interrupts.
The S5935 has eight 32-bit mailbox registers. The
mailboxes are useful for passing command and status
information between the Add-On and the PCI bus. The
PCI interface has four incoming mailboxes (Add-On to
PCI) and four outgoing mailboxes (PCI to Add-On).
The Add-On interface has four incoming mailboxes
(PCI to Add-On) and four outgoing mailboxes (Add-On
to PCI). The PCI incoming and Add-On outgoing mail-
boxes are the same, internally. The Add-On incoming
and PCI outgoing mailboxes are also the same,
internally.
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
Figure 1 shows a block diagram of the PCI to Add-On
mailbox registers. Add-On incoming mailbox read
accesses pass through an output interlock latch. This
prevents a PCI bus write to a PCI outgoing mailbox
from corrupting data being read by the Add-On. Figure
2 shows a block diagram of the Add-On to PCI mailbox
registers. PCI incoming mailbox reads also pass
through an interlocking mechanism. This prevents an
Add-On write to an outgoing mailbox from corrupting
data being read by the PCI bus. The following sections
describe the mailbox flag functionality and the mailbox
interrupt capabilities.
The mailbox status may be monitored in two ways.
The PCI and Add-On interfaces each have a mailbox
status register to indicate the empty/full status of bytes
within the mailboxes. The mailboxes may also be con-
figured to generate interrupts to the PCI and/or Add-
Figure 70. Block Diagram - PCI to Add-On Mailbox Register
MAILBOX
REGISTER
ADD-ON
BUS
"INCOMING
MAILBOX"
SELECT
ADD-ON
BUS
"INCOMING MAILBOX"
OUTPUT
INTERLOCK
LATCH
OUTPUT
DRIVER
PCI BUS
"OUTGOING MAILBOX"
D
Q
D
Q
LOAD ENABLE
EN
EN
ADD-ON
RD#
READ ENABLE
SELECT#
MAILBOX
FULL
S
"O"
D
Q
EMPTY/FULL FF
SELECTED READ ENABLE
Figure 71. Block Diagram - Add-On to PCI Mailbox Register
PCI BUS
OUTPUT
INTERLOCK
LATCH
PCI
MAILBOX
REGISTER
ADD-ON
BUS
"OUTGOING
MAILBOX"
"INCOMING MAILBOX"
"INCOMING
MAILBOX"
SELECT
QD
QD
EN
PCI READ PULSE
WR#
SELECT#
ADD-ON WRITE PULSE
MAILBOX
FULL
S
Q
"O"
D
REGISTER
DECODE OF
ADR[6:2]
BE[3:0]#
EMPTY/FULL FF
SELECTED
READ PULSE
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