cn8236 Mindspeed Technologies, cn8236 Datasheet - Page 45

• Manufacturer Part Number: cn8236
• Description: Atm Servicesar Plus With Xbr Traffic Management
• Manufacturer: Mindspeed Technologies

CN8236
ATM ServiceSAR Plus with xBR Traffic Management
2.2.7 Interrupts
28236-DSH-001-B
The CN8236 informs the host of segmentation and reassembly activity by means
of maskable interrupts sent to the host processor, triggered by writes to the
segmentation and reassembly status queues.
interrupts at PDU boundaries (called Message Mode), or at data buffer
boundaries (called Streaming Mode).
can be enabled in order to reduce the interrupt processing load on the host. This
has value when the SAR resides in an environment in which the host is not
dedicated to data communications processing.
The user can configure the SAR to generate these status queue entries and
The CN8236 can also be configured with a status queue interrupt delay, which
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2.2 High Performance Host Architecture with Buffer Isolation
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2.0 Architecture Overview
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