AMD Sempron™ Processor-In-a-Box 2500+ SDA2500BOX User Manual

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SDA2500BOX
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Chapter 4
Power Management
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31993A-1 September 2004
AMD Sempron™ Processor Model 10 Data Sheet
AMD Preliminary Information
interrupt for Halt or STPCLK# deassertion.  Reconnect is 
initiated by the Northbridge to probe the processor.
The Northbridge contains BIOS programmable registers to 
enable the system bus disconnect in response to Halt and Stop 
Grant special cycles. When the Northbridge receives the Halt or 
Stop Grant special cycle from the processor and, if there are no 
outstanding probes or data movements, the Northbridge 
deasserts CONNECT a minimum of eight SYSCLK periods after 
the last command sent to the processor. The processor detects 
the deassertion of CONNECT on a rising edge of SYSCLK and 
deasserts PROCRDY to  the Northbridge. In  return,  the 
N o r t h b r i d g e   a s s e r t s   C L K F W D R S T   i n   a n t i c i p a t i o n   o f  
reestablishing a connection at some later point.
Note: The Northbridge must disconnect the processor from the 
AMD Athlon system bus before issuing the Stop Grant 
special cycle to the PCI bus or passing the Stop Grant special 
cycle to the Southbridge for systems that connect to the 
Southbridge with HyperTransport™ technology.
 
 
This note applies to current chipset implementation— 
alternate chipset implementations that do not require this 
are possible.
Note: In response to Halt special cycles, the Northbridge passes the 
Halt special cycle to the PCI bus or Southbridge 
immediately. 
The processor can receive an interrupt after it sends a Halt 
special cycle, or STPCLK# deassertion after it sends a Stop 
Gra nt s pecia l cy cle  to  the Nor thbridge but befo re  the 
disconnect actually occurs. In this case, the processor sends the 
Connect spe cia l cycle to  the Nor thbridge , rather than 
continuing with the disconnect sequence. In response to the 
Connect special cycle, the Northbridge cancels the disconnect 
request.
The system is required to assert the CONNECT signal before 
returning the C-bit for the connect special cycle (assuming 
CONNECT has been deasserted). 
For more information, see the AMD Athlon™ and AMD Duron™ 
System Bus Specification
, order# 21902 for the definition of the 
C-bit and the Connect special cycle.