
26 Functional Information HW400p/M Technical Reference - 1.0, March 6, 2002
4-5. I/O Bus
The I/O Bus connects the following functional elements:
•DUART
• EEPROM
•Flash ROM
•CPLD
The I/O Bus has the following characteristics:
• It is an 8/16-bit data bus.
• It operates at 250-nsec cycle time buffered from the SDRAM bus.
• It is the Port X bus from the MPC8245.
DUART The DUART has two channels to support the console feature on channel B and
the download feature on channel A. Each channel has a separate interrupt
that is sent to the MPC8245 via the CPLD’s interrupt registers. See Section 4-
7, I/O Bus Control and Miscellaneous Logic, for register details.
Configuration, control, and data accesses are done through the DUART’s
microprocessor interface.
EEPROM A 2KB EEPROM organized as 2KB x 8-bit stores 1024 bytes of static factory
identification information, including the board’s serial number and MAC
addresses. When used with SBE’s VxWorks Boot Firmware, the remaining
1024 bytes store a boot parameter table. If the EEPROM is used for another
RTOS, do not overwrite the factory information in the address ranges given in
Table 4-3. Before it can be written, the EEPROM must be write-enabled by
setting the EEPWEN bit in the Board Status register (BSR) of the CPLD. See
Board Status Register (BSR) on page 45 for additional information.
Table 4-3 EEPROM address ranges
Start End Size Description
0xFFE10000 0xFFE103FF 1024 Reserved for factory use only. Do
not overwrite.
0xFFE10400 0xFFE107FF 1024 Available for use by RTOS or
applications code.
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