E F E c o n f i g u r a t i o n

Bits

Access

Mnemonic

Reset

Description

 

 

 

 

 

D02

R/W

TBACK

0

Test backpressure

 

 

 

 

Set this bit to 1 to have the MAC assert

 

 

 

 

backpressure on the link; this allows preamble to

 

 

 

 

be transmitted raising carrier sense.

 

 

 

 

A transmit packet from the system is sent during

 

 

 

 

backpressure.

 

 

 

 

 

D01

R/W

TPAUSE

0

Test pause

 

 

 

 

Set this bit to 1 to allow the MAC Control sublayer

 

 

 

 

to inhibit transmissions, similar to receipt of a

 

 

 

 

PAUSE receive control frame with a non-zero

 

 

 

 

pause time parameter.

 

 

 

 

 

D00

R/W

SPQ

0

Shortcut pause quanta

 

 

 

 

Set this bit to 1 to reduce the effective PAUSE

 

 

 

 

quanta from 64 byte-times to 1 byte-time.

 

 

 

 

 

Table 68: Test register bit definition

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