A10.2 CHI configurations
This section describes the CHI configurations.
The following table shows the permitted combinations of these signals and the supported configurations
in the Cortex‑A35 processor, with a CHI bus.
Table A10-1 Supported CHI configurations
Signal Feature
CHI non-coherent CHI outer coherent CHI inner coherent
No L3 cache With L3
cache
No L3 cache With L3
cache
No L3 cache With L3
cache
BROADCASTCACHEMAINT 0 1 0 1 0 1
BROADCASTOUTER 0 0 1 1 1 1
BROADCASTINNER 0 0 0 0 1 1
The following table shows the key features in each of the supported CHI configurations.
Table A10-2 Supported features in the CHI configurations
Features Configuration
CHI non-coherent,
no L3 cache
CHI non-coherent,
with L3 cache
CHI outer
coherent
CHI inner
coherent
Cache maintenance requests on
TXREQ channel
No Yes Yes Yes
Snoops on RXREQ channel No No Yes Yes
Coherent requests on TXREQ
channel
No No Yes Yes
DVM requests on TXREQ channel No No No Yes
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