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Raven PCI Bridge ASIC
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Raven Interrupt Controller
This section describes the general implementation of the Raven Interrupt
Controller (RavenMPIC).
Features
The RavenMPIC has the characteristics listed below.
❏ MPIC programming model
❏ Support for two processors
❏ Support for 16 external interrupts
❏ Support for 15 programmable Interrupt and Processor Task priority
levels
❏ Support for the connection of an external 8259 for ISA/AT
compatibility
❏ Distributed interrupt delivery for external I/O interrupts
❏ Direct/Multicast interrupt delivery for Interprocessor and timer
interrupts
❏ Four Interprocessor Interrupt sources
❏ Four timers
❏ Processor initialization control
Architecture
The Raven PCI Slave implements two address decoders for placing the
RavenMPIC registers in PCI IO or PCI Memory space. Access to these
registers require MPC and PCI bus mastership. These accesses include
interrupt and timer initialization and interrupt vector reads.
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