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2.9.2.6Transmit Flow Control
Incoming pause frames are acted upon, when enabled, to prevent the EMAC from transmitting any further frames. Incoming pause frames are only acted upon when the FULLDUPLEX and TXFLOWEN bits in the MAC control register (MACCONTROL) are set. Pause frames are not acted upon in
Pause frame action is taken if enabled, but normally the frame is filtered and not transferred to memory. MAC control frames are transferred to memory, if the RXCMFEN bit in the receive multicast/broadcast/promiscuous channel enable register (RXMBPENABLE) is set. The TXFLOWEN and FULLDUPLEX bits affect whether or not MAC control frames are acted upon, but they have no affect upon whether or not MAC control frames are transferred to memory or filtered.
Pause frames are a subset of MAC control frames with an opcode field of 0001h. Incoming pause frames are only acted upon by the EMAC if:
∙TXFLOWEN bit is set in M ACCONTROL
∙The frame’s length is 64 to RXMAXLEN bytes inclusive
∙The frame contains no CRC error or align/code errors
The pause time value from valid frames is extracted from the two bytes following the opcode. The pause time is loaded into the EMAC transmit pause timer and the transmit pause time period begins. If a valid pause frame is received during the transmit pause time period of a previous transmit pause frame then:
∙If the destination address is not equal to the reserved multicast address or any enabled or disabled unicast address, then the transmit pause timer immediately expires, or
∙If the new pause time value is 0, then the transmit pause timer immediately expires, else
∙The EMAC transmit pause timer immediately is set to the new pause frame pause time value. (Any remaining pause time from the previous pause frame is discarded).
If the TXFLOWEN bit in MACCONTROL is cleared, then the pause timer immediately expires.
The EMAC does not start the transmission of a new data frame any sooner than 512
Incoming pause frames consist of:
∙A
–The reserved multicast destination address 01.80.C2.00.00.01h
–Any EMAC
∙The
∙The
∙The
∙The
∙Padding to
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All quantities are hexadecimal and are transmitted
The padding is required to make up the frame to a minimum of 64 bytes. The standard allows pause frames longer than 64 bytes to be discarded or interpreted as valid pause frames. The EMAC recognizes any pause frame between 64 bytes and RXMAXLEN bytes in length.
2.9.2.7Speed, Duplex, and Pause Frame Support
The MAC operates at 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps, in
38 Ethernet Media Access Controller (EMAC)/SPRU941A
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