LPC47S42X Datasheet, PDF (120/264 Pages) SMSC Corporation – ENHANCED SUPER I/O WITH LPC INTERFACE FOR SERVER APPLICATIONS

EOI/ISR Read Latency
Any serialized IRQ scheme has a potential implementation issue related to IRQ latency. IRQ latency
could cause an EOI or ISR Read to precede an IRQ transition that it should have followed. This could
cause a system fault. The host interrupt controller is responsible for ensuring that these latency issues
are mitigated. The recommended solution is to delay EOIs and ISR Reads to the interrupt controller by
the same amount as the SER_IRQ Cycle latency in order to ensure that these events do not occur out
of order.
AC/DC Specification Issue
All SER_IRQ agents must drive / sample SER_IRQ synchronously related to the rising edge of PCI bus
clock. The SER_IRQ pin uses the electrical specification of PCI bus. Electrical parameters will follow
PCI spec. section 4, sustained tri-state.
Reset and Initialization
The SER_IRQ bus uses nPCI_RESET as its reset signal. The SER_IRQ pin is tri-stated by all agents
while nPCI_RESET is active. With reset, SER_IRQ Slaves are put into the (continuous) IDLE mode.
The Host Controller is responsible for starting the initial SER_IRQ Cycle to collect system’s IRQ/Data
default values. The system then follows with the Continuous/Quiet mode protocol (Stop Frame pulse
width) for subsequent SER_IRQ Cycles. It is Host Controller’s responsibility to provide the default
values to 8259’s and other system logic before the first SER_IRQ Cycle is performed. For SER_IRQ
system suspend, insertion, or removal application, the Host controller should be programmed into
Continuous (IDLE) mode first. This is to guarantee SER_IRQ bus is in IDLE state before the system
configuration changes.
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