E t h e r n e t M o d u l e

Register bit assignment

Bits

Access

Mnemonic

Reset

Description

 

 

 

 

 

D31:15

N/A

Reserved

N/A

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

D14

R/W

EDEFER

0

Excess Deferral

 

 

 

 

1

Allows the MAC to defer to carrier indefinitely,

 

 

 

 

 

per the 802.3u standard.

 

 

 

 

0

The MAC aborts when the excessive deferral

 

 

 

 

 

limit is reached. The MAC provides feedback to

 

 

 

 

 

the host system (through a transmit abort

 

 

 

 

 

condition defined in the Transmit Status

 

 

 

 

 

register (see "TXAED" on page 171).

 

 

 

 

 

D13

R/W

BACKP

0

Backpressure/NO back off

 

 

 

 

0

After a collision, the MAC waits a random

 

 

 

 

 

amount of time to retransmit packets (“back

 

 

 

 

 

off”).

 

 

 

 

1

After a collision, the MAC immediately

 

 

 

 

 

retransmits packets without backoff. This

 

 

 

 

 

reduces the chance of further collisions and

 

 

 

 

 

ensures that transmit packets are sent.

 

 

 

 

 

D12

R/W

NOBO

0

No back off

 

 

 

 

When this bit is set to 1, the MAC immediately

 

 

 

 

retransmits after a collision, rather than using the

 

 

 

 

binary exponential back off algorithm defined in the

 

 

 

 

802.3u standard.

 

 

 

 

 

D11:10

N/A

Reserved

N/A

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

D09

R/W

LONGP

0

Long preamble enforcement

 

 

 

 

1

The MAC allows only those receive packets

 

 

 

 

 

that contain preamble fields less than 12 bytes

 

 

 

 

 

in length.

 

 

 

 

0

The MAC allows any length preamble, as

 

 

 

 

 

defined in the 802.3u standard.

 

 

 

 

 

D08

R/W

PUREP

0

Pure preamble enforcement

 

 

 

 

1

The MAC verifies the preamble‘s content to

 

 

 

 

 

ensure it contains ’h55 and is error-free. A

 

 

 

 

 

packet with errors in the preamble is discarded.

 

 

 

 

0

There is no preamble checking.

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