The IEEE Registration Authority assigned 'company_id' is the company_id
value defined in IEEE Std 1212-1991 Control and Status Register (CSR)
Architecture. Note that this document is referenced by IEEE Std 896.2-1991
Futurebus+ Physical Layers and Profiles and IEEE Std 1596-1992 Scalable
Coherent Interface as well as the IEEE Std 1394-1995 Serial Bus document.
When used within the CSR Architecture, a direct or indirect read of the ROM
quadlet containing the Module_Vendor_Id returns the company_id. For example,
a company_id value of ACDE48
(which has a
binary representation of 101011001101111001001000
) is returned as illustrated below:
Other ROM entries, such as Module_Spec_Id, Node_Vendor_Id, Node_Spec_Id and Unit_Spec_Id may also contain the company_id value, but have a different key_value.
IEEE Std 1212-1991 Control and Status Register (CSR) Architecture Tutorial Rev. 27 Jul92