SMC Networks SMC91C95 - Manual (Page 37)

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I/O SPACE
(ISA and PCMCIA Mode)
In ISA mode, the base I/O space is determined by
the IOS0-IOS2 inputs and the EEPROM contents.
A4-A15 are compared against the base I/O
address for I/O space accesses.
In PCMCIA mode nREG (along with nIORD or
nIOWR) defines an I/O access regardless of the
A4-A15 value.
To limit the I/O space requirements to 16 locations,
the registers are assigned to different banks. The
last word of the I/O area is shared by all banks and
can be used to change the bank in use.
Registers are described using the following
convention:
OFFSET NAME TYPE SYMBOL
HIGH
BYTE
bit 15 bit 14 bit 13 bit 12 bit 11 bit 10 bit 9 bit 8
X X X X X X X X
LOW
BYTE
bit 7 bit 6 bit 5 bit 4 bit 3 bit 2 bit 1 bit 0
X X X X X X X X
OFFSET - Defines the address offset within the
IOBASE where the register can be accessed at,
provided the bank select has the appropriate value.
The offset specifies the address of the even byte
(bits 0-7) or the address of the complete word.
The odd byte can be accessed using address
(offset + 1).
Some registers (like the Interrupt Ack., or like
Interrupt Mask) are functionally described as two
eight bit registers; in that case the offset of each
one is independently specified.
Regardless of the functional description, when the
SMC91C95 is in 16 bit mode, all registers can be
accessed as words or bytes.
The default bit values upon hard reset are
highlighted below each register.