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4 bridge memory window – Intel CONTROLLERS 413808 User Manual

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Intel

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413808 and 413812—System Controller (SC) and Internal Bus Bridge

Intel

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413808 and 413812 I/O Controllers in TPER Mode

Developer’s Manual

October 2007

492

Order Number: 317805-001US

7.3.4

Bridge Memory Window

The North Internal Bus interface of the Bridge performs subtractive decoding. For

example, transactions on the north internal bus that are not claimed by other targets

on the north internal bus are claimed by the Bridge North Interface.
The South Bridge Interface performs positive decoding. The Bridge provides a Bridge

Memory Window defined by the

Bridge Window Base Address Register — BWBAR

and

the

Bridge Limit Register — BWLR

. Transactions on the south internal bus that target

this memory window are claimed and forwarded to the north internal bus. The South

Bridge Interface also claims transactions that target the Bridge memory-mapped

registers. The memory-mapped registers are only accessible from the south internal

bus. For example, transactions to the Bridge memory-mapped registers by the Intel

XScale

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processors that reside on the north internal bus, are propagated from the

north internal bus to the south internal bus via the Bridge, and then claimed by the

Bridge on the south interface.

Note:

For bridge memory window access overlapping the bridge memory-mapped register

space (+1780 through +17FFH), the bridge memory window is not accessible, and the

bridge memory-mapped register space is addressed.