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• Chapter 3, Operating the Digital Alpha VME 4 Computer, explains how to
use the Digital Alpha VME 4 module's controls and indicators, introduces
console mode and environment variables, and provides pointers to information
on booting operating systems and updating firmware.
• Chapter 4, Diagnostics, describes the Digital Alpha VME 4 power-on self-test
(POST) diagnostics and ROM based diagnostics (RBDs).
• Chapter 5, System Address Mapping, describes the mapping of 34-bit
processor physical address space to memory and I/O space addresses. This
chapter also includes discussions on address translations.
• Chapter 6, Cache and Memory Subsystem, describes the cache and memory
subsystem. This chapter includes discussions on error handling and describes
the subsystem's address space and registers.
• Chapter 7, PCI Host Bridge, describes the PCI host bridge that resides
between the PCI local bus and the system bus. This chapter discusses the
interfaces to the system bus and PCI bus and describes the related address
space and registers.
• Chapter 8, PCI bus, describes the PCI bus, the base of the I/O subsystem.
The chapter describes the various I/O devices and their registers.
• Chapter 9, Nbus, decribes the Digital Alpha VME 4 module's Nbus. The
discussion includes the Nbus address space and registers. This chapter also
includes information on ROM, the Super I/O chip, the keyboard and mouse
controller, the time-of-year (TOY) clock, interval timer registers, the watchdog
timer, and nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM).
• Chapter 10, VME Interface, describes the interface that handles the VMEbus
and its interacations with the PCI bus. The chapter describes master and
slave address spaces, address mapping, registers, and communication. The
chapter also discusses system controller operation, byte swapping addressing,
and interface initialization.
• Chapter 11, System Interrupts, describes Digital Alpha VME 4 system
interrupts and how the module can be reset.
• Chapter 12, Console Primer, introduces you to the Digital Alpha VME 4
console and explains how to use basic console commands.
• Chapter 13, Console Commands, describes the Digital Alpha VME 4 console
commands.
• Appendix A, Module Connector Pinouts, provides pinout information for the
Digital Alpha VME 4 module connectors.
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