
P R E L I M I N A R Y
AMD
1-967
Am79C970
CSR46: Poll Time Counter
Bit
Name
Description
31–16
RES
Reserved locations. Written as
ZEROs and read as undefined.
Poll Time Counter. This counter
is incremented by the PCnet-PCI
controller microcode and is used
to trigger the descriptor ring poll-
ing operation of the PCnet-PCI
controller.
Read/write accessible only when
STOP bit is set. These bits are
unaffected
by
S_RESET or STOP.
15–0
POLL
H_RESET,
CSR47: Polling Interval
Bit
Name
Description
31–16
RES
Reserved locations. Written as
ZEROs and read as undefined.
Polling Interval. This register
contains the time that the PCnet-
PCI controller will wait between
successive polling operations.
The POLLINT value is expressed
as the twos complement of the
desired interval, where each bit
of POLLINT represents 1 CLK
period of time. POLLINT[3:0] are
ignored. (POLLINT[16] is im-
plied to be a one, so POL-
LINT[15] is significant, and does
not represent the sign of the twos
complement POLLINT value.)
The default value of this register
is 0000b. This corresponds to a
polling interval of 65,536 clock
periods (1.966 ms when CLK =
33 MHz). The POLLINT value of
0000b is created during the
microcode initialization routine,
and therefore might not be seen
when reading CSR47 after
H_RESET or S_RESET.
If the user desires to program a
value for POLLINT other than the
default, then the correct proce-
dure is to first set INIT only in
CSR0. Then, when the initializa-
tion sequence is complete, the
user must set STOP in CSR0.
Then the user may write to
CSR47 and then set STRT in
CSR0. In this way, the default
value of 0000b in CSR47 will be
overwritten with the desired user
value.
15–0 POLLINT
If the user does NOT use the
standard initialization procedure
(standard implies use of an in-
itialization block in memory and
setting the INIT bit of CSR0), but
instead, chooses to write directly
to each of the registers that are
involved in the INIT operation,
then it is imperative that the user
also write 0000 0000 to CSR47
as part of the alternative initiali-
zation sequence.
Read/write accessible only when
STOP bit is set. These bits are
unaffected
by
S_RESET or STOP.
H_RESET,
CSR58: Software Style
Bit
Name
Description
This register is an alias of the lo-
cation BCR20. Accesses to/from
this register are equivalent to ac-
cesses to BCR20.
Reserved locations. Written as
ZEROs and read as undefined.
Reserved locations. Written as
ZEROs and read as undefined.
CSR PCnet-ISA configuration
bit. When set, this bit indicates
that the PCnet-PCI controller
register bits of CSR4 and CSR3
will map directly to the CSR4 and
CSR3 bits of the PCnet–ISA
(Am79C960)
device.
cleared, this bit indicates that
PCnet-PCI controller register bits
of CSR4 and CSR3 will map di-
rectly to the CSR4 and CSR3 bits
of the ILACC (Am79C900)
device.
The value of CSRPCNET is de-
termined by the PCnet-PCI con-
troller. CSRPCNET is read only
by the host.
The PCnet-PCI controller uses
the setting of the Software Style
register (BCR20 bits7-0/CSR58
bits 7–0) to determine the value
for this bit.
CSRPCNET is set by H_RESET
and is not affected by S_RESET
or STOP.
Software Size 32 bits. When set,
this bit indicates that the PCnet-
PCI
controller
Am79C900 (ILACC) software
structures.
In
31–16
RES
15–10
RES
9
CSRPCNET
When
8
SSIZE32
utilizes
particular,