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  We Have Atomic Operation Control (ATOMCTL) Register.
  This register determines the effect of using a S32C1I instruction
  with various combinations of:
  
       1. With and without an Coherent Cache Controller which
          can do Atomic Transactions to the memory internally.
  
       2. With and without An Intelligent Memory Controller which
          can do Atomic Transactions itself.
  
  The Core comes up with a default value of for the three types of cache ops:
  
        0x28: (WB: Internal, WT: Internal, BY:Exception)
  
  On the FPGA Cards we typically simulate an Intelligent Memory controller
  which can implement  RCW transactions. For FPGA cards with an External
  Memory controller we let it to the atomic operations internally while
  doing a Cached (WB) transaction and use the Memory RCW for un-cached
  operations.
  
  For systems without an coherent cache controller, non-MX, we always
  use the memory controllers RCW, thought non-MX controlers likely
  support the Internal Operation.
  
  CUSTOMER-WARNING:
     Virtually all customers buy their memory controllers from vendors that
     don't support atomic RCW memory transactions and will likely want to
     configure this register to not use RCW.
  
  Developers might find using RCW in Bypass mode convenient when testing
  with the cache being bypassed; for example studying cache alias problems.
  
  See Section 4.3.12.4 of ISA; Bits:
  
                               WB     WT      BY
                             5   4 | 3   2 | 1   0
    2 Bit
    Field
    Values     WB - Write Back         WT - Write Thru         BY - Bypass
  ---------    ---------------         -----------------     ----------------
      0        Exception               Exception               Exception
      1        RCW Transaction         RCW Transaction         RCW Transaction
      2        Internal Operation      Exception               Reserved
      3        Reserved                Reserved                Reserved