Enable standard route table configuration support, Enable extended route table configuration support, Enable flow control support – Altera RapidIO II MegaCore Function User Manual

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Chapter 3: Parameter Settings

Capability Registers Settings

RapidIO II MegaCore Function

August 2014

Altera Corporation

User Guide

Enable Standard Route Table Configuration Support

Enable standard route table configuration support

, when turned on, sets the

Standard route table configuration support

bit in the Processing Element

Features

CAR and indicates that the processing element supports the standard route

table configuration mechanism.

This property is relevant in switch processing elements only.

If you turn on Enable standard route table configuration support, user logic must
implement the functionality and registers to support standard route table
configuration. The RapidIO II IP core does not implement the Standard Route CSRs at
offsets 0x70, 0x74, and 0x78.

Enable Extended Route Table Configuration Support

If you turn on Enable standard route table configuration support, the Enable
extended route table configuration support

parameter is available.

Enable extended route table configuration support

, when turned on, sets the

Extended route table configuration support

bit in the Processing Element

Features

CAR and indicates that the processing element supports the extended route

table configuration mechanism.

This property is relevant in switch processing elements only.

If you turn on Enable extended route table configuration support, user logic must
implement the functionality and registers to support extended route table
configuration. The RapidIO II IP core does not implement the Standard Route CSRs at
offsets 0x70, 0x74, and 0x78.

Enable Flow Control Support

Enable flow control support

, when turned on, sets the Flow Control Support bit in

the Processing Element Features CAR and indicates that the processing element
supports flow control.

Enable Switch Support

Enable switch support

, when turned on, sets the Switch bit in the Processing

Element

Features CAR (

Table 6–26 on page 6–27

) and indicates that the processing

element can bridge to another external RapidIO interface. A processing element that
only bridges to a local endpoint is not considered a switch port.

Switch Port Information CAR

If you turn on Enable switch support, the following parameters are available.

Number of Ports

Number of ports

specifies the total number of ports on the processing element. This

value sets the PortTotal field of the Switch Port Information CAR (

Table 6–27 on

page 6–29

).

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