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ICS1892, Rev. D, 2/26/01

February 26, 2001

Chapter 7

Functional Blocks

ICS1892 Data Sheet

For example, if the status bits have a value of 3h and the auto-negotiation process moves into:

• State 1, the Auto-Negotiation Progress Monitor does not update the status bits to indicate the new state.

• State 5, the Auto-Negotiation Progress Monitor updates the status bits to indicate the new state, State 5.

In this case, the status bits increase in value until either the auto-negotiation process successfully

completes or the STA reads the Auto-Negotiation Progress Monitor status bits.

When the STA reads the status bits, the present state of the auto-negotiation process is automatically

latched into the status bits, regardless of how they compare to the value currently in the latch. However,

the read presents the STA with the previously latched values of the status bits, not the values just latched

into the status register by the read. Therefore, the STA must perform two reads of the status bits to

determine the present state of the Auto-Negotiation Arbitration State Machine.

The first read provides a 'history' of the auto-negotiation process, (that is, the highest state achieved by

the auto-negotiation process). The second read provides the present state of the auto-negotiation

process. This behavior allows management to determine the greatest forward progress made by the

auto-negotiation logic, which is valuable for diagnosing link errors and failures.

Note:

Once the auto-negotiation process completes successfully, the value of all the Progress Monitor

status bits and the Auto-Negotiation Complete bit have a value of logic one. A read operation of the

QuickPoll Register provides a value of logic one for the Auto-Negotiation Complete bit and an octal

value of 111 for the status bits.

However, subsequent reads of the QuickPoll Register also provide a value of logic one for the

Auto-Negotiation Complete bit. The octal value of the status bits are ‘000’, providing the link

remains established. That is, if the link fails, the Auto-Negotiation sublayer is restarted and

subsequent reads provide the value of the Auto-Negotiation Arbitration State Machine.

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