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Reference Design Example

4-28

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ARM DUI 0163B

4.13

Peripheral information block

The Peripheral Information Block (PIB) is a block of 32 words in ROM that provides
you with information about the peripherals used in the design. The PIB is located at the
top of the address space for the logic module.

Each word in the PIB provides information about one peripheral. A value of

0x00000000

indicates that there is no entry and that the next address must be checked. Each valid
entry contains the information shown in Table 4-18.

The last address of the PIB is used to store the FPGA build number. Bits [31:8] are all
1 and bits [7:0] store the revision number in BCD.

Note

Use the ARM executable utility

read_pib.axf

, supplied on the IM-AD1 CD, to display

the PIB information.

Table 4-18 PIB entry format

Bits

Name

Function

31:24

Peripheral Base

Bits [27:20] of the peripheral base address.

Bits [31:28] of the address are defined by the location of
the logic module in the stack see Address assignment of
logic modules
on page 4-5.

23:8

Peripheral ID

For a PrimeCell, this is the PrimeCell number in BCD. For
example, the VIC PrimeCell PL190 would be represented
by

0x0190

.

For other peripherals the value

0xFFnn

is assigned, where

nn

is a unique look-up value. (See the AHBPIB HDL

source file for details.) The value

0xFFFF

is a special case

that is used to indicate the FPGA build number.

7:0

Peripheral Rev

This gives the revision number of the peripheral in BCD.
For example, revision v1.2 is represented by

0x12

.

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