Arria® V Avalon® Memory-Mapped (Avalon-MM) Interface for PCI Express* Solutions: User Guide

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Date 10/25/2024
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5.7. 64- or 128-Bit Avalon-MM Bridge Register Descriptions

The CRA Avalon-MM slave module provides access control and status registers in the PCI Express Avalon-MM bridge. In addition, it provides access to selected Configuration Space registers and link status registers in read-only mode. This module is optional. However, you must include it to access the registers.

The control and status register address space is 16 KB. Each 4 KB sub-region contains a set of functions, which may be specific to accesses from the PCI Express Root Complex only, from Avalon‑MM processors only, or from both types of processors. Because all accesses come across the interconnect fabric—requests from the Avalon‑MM Arria V Hard IP for PCI Express are routed through the interconnect fabric—hardware does not enforce restrictions to limit individual processor access to specific regions. However, the regions are designed to enable straight-forward enforcement by processor software. The following figure illustrates accesses to the Avalon‑MM control and status registers from the Host CPU and PCI Express link.

Figure 23. Accesses to the Avalon-MM Bridge Control and Status Register

The following table describes the four subregions.

Table 45.  Avalon-MM Control and Status Register Address Spaces

Address Range

Address Space Usage

0x0000-0x0FFF

Registers typically intended for access by PCI Express link partner only. This includes PCI Express interrupt enable controls, write access to the PCI Express Avalon-MM bridge mailbox registers, and read access to Avalon-MM-to-PCI Express mailbox registers.

0x1000-0x1FFF

Avalon-MM-to-PCI Express address translation tables. Depending on the system design these may be accessed by the PCI Express link partner, Avalon-MM processors, or both.

0x2000-0x2FFF

Root Port request registers. An embedded processor, such as the Nios II processor, programs these registers to send the data for Configuration TLPs, I/O TLPs, single dword Memory Read and Write requests, and receive interrupts from an Endpoint.

0x3000-0x3FFF

Registers typically intended for access by Avalon-MM processors only. Provides host access to selected Configuration Space and status registers.

Note: The data returned for a read issued to any undefined address in this range is unpredictable.

The following table lists the complete address map for the PCI Express Avalon-MM bridge registers.

Note: In the following table the text in green are links to the detailed register description
Table 46.  PCI Express Avalon-MM Bridge Register Map

Address Range

Register

0x0040

Avalon-MM to PCI Express Interrupt Status Register

0x0050

Avalon-MM to PCI Express Interrupt Status Enable Register

0x0800–0x081F

PCI Express-to-Avalon-MM Mailbox Registers

0x0900–x091F

Avalon-MM to PCI Express Mailbox Registers

0x1000–0x1FFF

Avalon-MM to PCI Express Address Translation Table

0x2000–0x2FFF

Root Port TLP Data Registers

0x3060

Avalon-MM to PCI Express Interrupt Status Registers for Root Ports

0x3060

PCI Express to Avalon-MM Interrupt Status Register for Endpoints

0x3070

INT-X Interrupt Enable Register for Root Ports

0x3070

INT-X Interrupt Enable Register for Endpoints

0x3A00-0x3A1F

Avalon-MM to PCI Express Mailbox Registers

0x3B00-0x3B1F

PCI Express to Avalon-MM Mailbox Registers

0x3C00-0x3C6C

Host (Avalon-MM master) access to selected Configuration Space and status registers.