ARM PrimeCell™

Smart Card Interface (PL131)

Technical Reference Manual

ARM DDI 0228A

ARM PrimeCell™ Smart Card Interface (PL131)

Technical Reference Manual

Copyright © 2001 ARM Limited. All rights reserved.

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Description	Issue	Change
November 2001	A	First release.

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Contents

ARM PrimeCell Smart Card Interface (PL131)

Technical Reference Manual

Preface

About this document ......................................................................................................	vi
Further reading...............................................................................................................	ix
Feedback .......................................................................................................................	x

Chapter 1	Introduction
	1.1	About the ARM PrimeCell Smart Card Interface (PL131)	............................. 1-2
Chapter 2	Functional Overview
	2.1	ARM PrimeCell Smart Card Interface (PL131) overview ..............................	2-2
	2.2	PrimeCell SCI functional description.............................................................	2-3
	2.3	PrimeCell SCI operation................................................................................	2-8
	2.4	PrimeCell SCI DMA interface......................................................................	2-25
	2.5	SCI clock stop mode ...................................................................................	2-28
	2.6	PrimeCell SCI clock and data driver configurations....................................	2-29
Chapter 3	Programmer’s Model
	3.1	About the programmer’s model.....................................................................	3-2
	3.2	Summary of PrimeCell SCI registers ............................................................	3-3
	3.3	Register descriptions ....................................................................................	3-7
	3.4	Interrupts.....................................................................................................	3-40

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Chapter 4	Programmer’s Model for Test
	4.1	PrimeCell SCI test harness overview	........................................................... 4-2
	4.2	Scan testing..................................................................................................	4-3
	4.3	Test registers................................................................................................	4-4
	4.4	Integration testing of block inputs ...............................................................	4-10
	4.5	Integration testing of block outputs.............................................................	4-12
	4.6	Integration test summary ............................................................................	4-17

Appendix A	ARM PrimeCell Smart Card Interface (PL131) Signal Descriptions
	A.1	AMBA APB signals .......................................................................................	A-2
	A.2	On-chip signals.............................................................................................	A-3
	A.3	Signals to pads .............................................................................................	A-5

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Preface

This preface introduces the ARM PrimeCell Smart Card Interface (PL131) and its reference documentation. It contains the following sections:

•About this document on page vi

•Further reading on page ix

•Feedback on page x.

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