ARM CoreLink GIC-600AE User Manual

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CoreLink™ GIC-600AE Generic Interrupt Controller
Technical Reference Manual
Document ID: 101206_0003_04_en
Issue: 04
Components and configuration
3. Components and configuration
The GIC-600AE contains several major components that use an internal GIC interconnect to route
the AXI4-Stream interfaces between the different components. A configuration parameter controls
the hierarchy of the GIC components.
The components are:
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Distributor
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Redistributor
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Interrupt Translation Service (ITS)
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MSI-64 Encapsulator
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SPI Collator
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Wake Request
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GIC interconnect
The hierarchy of the GIC components can be a single combined block that uses a dedicated AXI4-
Stream interconnect or a set of individual blocks that are interconnected using your own transport
layer.
3.1 Distributor
The Distributor is the main communication point between all GIC-600AE blocks. It performs SPI
management and LPI caching, and all communications with other blocks and chips.
The following figure shows the Distributor and its interfaces.
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ARM CoreLink GIC-600AE Specifications

General

Brand	ARM
Model	CoreLink GIC-600AE
Category	Controller
Language	English