MIPS® Malta™ User’s Manual, Revision 01.07 3
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction..........................................................................................................................7
1.1: Overview...................................................................................................................................................... 7
Chapter 2: Getting Started...................................................................................................................11
2.1: Required Hardware ................................................................................................................................... 11
2.2: Optional Hardware..................................................................................................................................... 11
2.3: Wiring It Up................................................................................................................................................ 12
2.4: Power-up Sequence.................................................................................................................................. 12
Chapter 3: Memory Map.......................................................................................................................13
3.1: Revision Information.................................................................................................................................. 14
3.2: NMI Interrupts............................................................................................................................................ 15
3.3: NMI Acknowledge...................................................................................................................................... 15
3.4: Switches / Status....................................................................................................................................... 16
3.5: Displays..................................................................................................................................................... 17
3.6: Reset Control............................................................................................................................................. 19
3.7: CBUS UART, tty2...................................................................................................................................... 20
3.8: General Purpose I/O.................................................................................................................................. 20
3.9: I2C............................................................................................................................................................. 21
Chapter 4: Board Layout......................................................................................................................25
4.1: Connectors & Jumpers.............................................................................................................................. 26
4.2: Switches .................................................................................................................................................... 28
4.3: Displays / LEDs ......................................................................................................................................... 29
Chapter 5: Hardware Description........................................................................................................31
5.1: PCI Bus ..................................................................................................................................................... 31
5.1.1: PCI Arbiter........................................................................................................................................ 32
5.2: I2C Bus...................................................................................................................................................... 32
5.3: Power ........................................................................................................................................................ 32
5.4: Reset ......................................................................................................................................................... 33
5.5: Clocks........................................................................................................................................................ 33
5.6: Interrupt Controller..................................................................................................................................... 33
5.7: Serial Ports................................................................................................................................................ 37
5.7.1: File Download .................................................................................................................................. 37
5.7.2: Serial Port Reset.............................................................................................................................. 38
5.8: Ethernet..................................................................................................................................................... 38
5.9: USB ........................................................................................................................................................... 38
5.10: Keyboard / Mouse / IEEE1284 Parallel Port / Floppy Disk...................................................................... 38
5.11: Real Time Clock (RTC) ........................................................................................................................... 39
5.12: IDE/CompactFlash (True IDE Mode)....................................................................................................... 39
5.13: Flash Memory.......................................................................................................................................... 39
5.14: EEPROM................................................................................................................................................. 39
5.15: AMR (Audio Modem Riser)...................................................................................................................... 40
5.16: Front Panel Connector ............................................................................................................................ 40
5.17: Debug Access ......................................................................................................................................... 40
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