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Am79C973/Am79C975

P R E L I M INARY

software timer will load the value stored in STVAL and

restart. The timer value STVAL (BCR31, bits 15-0) is in-

terpreted as an unsigned number with a resolution of

256 Time Base Clock periods. For instance, a value of

122 ms would be programmed with a value of 9531

(253Bh), if the Time Base Clock is running at 20 MHz.

The default value of STVAL is FFFFh which yields the

approximate maximum 838 ms timer duration. A write

to STVAL restarts the timer with the new contents of

STVAL.

10/100 Media Access Control

The Media Access Control (MAC) engine incorporates

the essential protocol requirements for operation of an

Ethernet/IEEE 802.3-compliant node and provides the

interface between the FIFO subsystem and the internal

PHY.

This section describes operation of the MAC engine

when operating in half-duplex mode. When operating in

half-duplex mode, the MAC engine is fully compliant to

Section 4 of ISO/IEC 8802-3 (ANSI/IEEE Standard

1990 Second Edition) and ANSI/IEEE 802.3 (1985).

When operating in full-duplex mode, the MAC engine

behavior changes as described in the section Full-

Duplex Operation.

The MAC engine provides programmable enhanced

features designed to minimize host supervision, bus

utilization, and pre- or post-message processing.

These features include the ability to disable retries after

a collision, dynamic FCS generation on a frame-by-

frame basis, automatic pad field insertion and deletion

to enforce minimum frame size attributes, automatic re-

transmission without reloading the FIFO, and auto-

matic deletion of collision fragments.

The two primary attributes of the MAC engine are:

s Transmit and receive message data encapsulation

— Framing (frame boundary delimitation, frame

synchronization)

— Addressing (source and destination address

handling)

— Error detection (physical medium transmission

errors)

s Media access management

— Medium allocation (collision avoidance, except

in full-duplex operation)

— Contention resolution (collision handling, except

in full-duplex operation)

Transmit and Receive Message Data Encapsulation

The MAC engine provides minimum frame size en-

forcement for transmit and receive frames. When

APAD_XMT (CSR, bit 11) is set to 1, transmit mes-

sages will be padded with sufficient bytes (containing

00h) to ensure that the receiving station will observe an

information field (destination address, source address,

length/type, data, and FCS) of 64 bytes. When

ASTRP_RCV (CSR4, bit 10) is set to 1, the receiver will

automatically strip pad bytes from the received mes-

sage by observing the value in the length field and by

stripping excess bytes if this value is below the mini-

mum data size (46 bytes). Both features can be inde-

pendently over-ridden to allow illegally short (less than

64 bytes of frame data) messages to be transmitted

and/or received. The use of this feature reduces bus

utilization because the pad bytes are not transferred

into or out of main memory.

Framing

The MAC engine will autonomously handle the con-

struction of the transmit frame. Once the transmit FIFO

has been filled to the predetermined threshold (set by

XMTSP in CSR80) and access to the channel is cur-

rently permitted, the MAC engine will commence the 7-

byte preamble sequence (10101010b, where first bit

transmitted is a 1). The MAC engine will subsequently

append the Star t Frame De limiter (SFD ) byte

(10101011b) followed by the serialized data from the

transmit FIFO. Once the data has been completed, the

MAC engine will append the FCS (most significant bit

first) which was computed on the entire data portion of

the frame. The data portion of the frame consists of

destination address, source address, length/type, and

frame data. The user is responsible for the correct or-

dering and content in each of these fields in the frame.

The MAC does not use the content in the length/type

field unless APAD_XMT (CSR4, bit 11) is set and the

data portion of the frame is shorter than 60 bytes.

The MAC engine will detect the incoming preamble se-

quence when the RX_DV signal is activated by the in-

ternal PHY. The MAC will discard the preamble and

begin searching for the SFD. Once the SFD is de-

tected, all subsequent nibbles are treated as part of the

frame. The MAC engine will inspect the length field to

ensure minimum frame size, strip unnecessary pad

characters (if enabled), and pass the remaining bytes

through the receive FIFO to the host. If pad stripping is

performed, the MAC engine will also strip the received

FCS bytes, although normal FCS computation and

checking will occur. Note that apart from pad stripping,

the frame will be passed unmodified to the host. If the

length field has a value of 46 or greater, all frame bytes

including FCS will be passed unmodified to the receive

buffer, regardless of the actual frame length.

If the frame terminates or suffers a collision before 64

bytes of information (after SFD) have been received,

the MAC engine will automatically delete the frame

from the receive FIFO, without host intervention. The

Am79C973/Am79C975 controller has the ability to ac-

cept runt packets for diagnostic purposes and propri-

etary networks.

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