PM8621-BI PMC-Sierra, Inc., PM8621-BI Datasheet - Page 4

• Manufacturer Part Number: PM8621-BI
• Description: Driver, NSE/SBS Narrowband Chipset Driver
• Manufacturer: PMC-Sierra, Inc.

Proprietary and Confidential to PMC-Sierra, Inc., and for its Customers’ Internal Use
Document ID: PMC-2021248, Issue 1
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Scope
This document is the driver manual for the NSE/SBS Narrowband Chipset (PM8610, PM8611,
PM8620, PM8621) driver software. It describes the features and functionality provided by the
chipset driver, the software architecture, and the external interface of the chipset driver software.
The document also describes how the chipset driver can be ported to a different platform.
Objectives
The main objectives of this document are as follows:
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References
The main references for this document are as follows:
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VERVIEW
To provide a detailed list of the chipset driver’s features
To describe the software architecture of the driver (e.g., data structures, state diagrams and
function descriptions)
To describe the external interface of the driver; this interface illustrates how the chipset driver
interacts with the underlying hardware devices, the RTOS, and the external application
software.
Narrowband Chipset System Architecture, Issue 1, PMC-2000413 (PMC-Sierra, Inc.)
SBI Bus Serializer Data Sheet, Issue 5, PMC- 2000168 (PMC-Sierra, Inc.)
NSE Data Sheet, Issue 5, PMC- 2000170 (PMC-Sierra, Inc.)
SBS and SBSLITE Device Driver Manual, Issue 3, PMC-2011471 (PMC-Sierra, Inc.)
NSE-20G and NSE-8G Device Driver Manual, Issue 2, PMC-2010053 (PMC-Sierra, Inc.)
ANSI – T1.105 – 1995, “Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) – Basic Description
including Multiplex Structure, Rates, and Formats”, 1995
ITU – G.707 – 2000, “Network Node Interface for the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
(SDH)”, 2000
NSE/SBS Open Path Algorithm API Design Specification, Issue 1
Sierra, Inc)
A Survey of Rollback-recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems, Elnozahy, M., Alvisi,
L., Wang, Y., and Johnson, D., CMU-CS-99-148, Carnegie Mellon University, 1999.
Narrowband Chipset Driver User’s Manual
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PMC-2010601 (PMC-
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