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The Statusregister

The AORTA-R-V2 statusregister STATUS_REG provides information on the status of the data FIFOs, the crossbar state, the presence of a control character in the last data items read, etc.; its contents are listed in table 4; the data FIFO flags encoding is listed in table 5.

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Table 4: The AORTA-R-V2 statusregister content 

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Table: AORTA-R data FIFO flags encoding; P is programmed by writing the value into the FIFO_INIT register before AORTA-R reset (0 <= P <= 63); NOTE: all 4 data FIFO-chips will use the same P.  



Henk Boterenbrood
Tue Jul 16 16:01:00 MET DST 1996