SCC HDLC Mode
MPC8260 PowerQUICC II Family Reference Manual, Rev. 2
22-18 Freescale Semiconductor
In single-master configuration, a master station transmits to any slave station without collisions. Slaves
communicate only with the master, but can experience collisions in their access over the bus. In this
configuration, a slave that communicates with another slave must first transmit its data to the master, where
the data is buffered in RAM and then resent to the other slave. The benefit of this configuration, however,
is that full-duplex operation can be obtained. In a point-to-multipoint environment, this is the preferred
configuration. Figure 22-11 shows the single-master configuration.
Figure 22-11. Typical HDLC Bus Single-Master Configuration
22.15.1 HDLC Bus Features
The main features of the HDLC bus are as follows:
Superset of the HDLC controller features
Automatic HDLC bus access
Automatic retransmission in case of collision
May be used with the NMSI or a TDM bus
Delayed RTS mode
22.15.2 Accessing the HDLC Bus
The HDLC bus protocol ensures orderly bus control when multiple transmitters attempt simultaneous
access. The transmitter sending a zero bit at the time of collision completes the transmission. If a station
sends out an opening flag (0x7E) while another station is already sending, the collision is always detected
within the first byte, because the transmission in progress is using zero bit insertion to prevent flag
imitation.
HDLC
Controller
RXD TXD
A
RCLK
HDLC Bus
Controller
RXD CTS
TXD
B
HDLC Bus
Controller
RXD CTS
TXD
C
Clock1
HDLC Bus LAN
+ 3.3 V
R
Slave SlaveMaster
NOTES:
1. Transceivers may be used to extend the LAN size.
2. The TXD pins of slave devices should be configured to open-drain in the port C parallel I/O port.
3. Clock1 is the master RCLK and the slave TCLK.
Clock2
TCLK RCLK TCLKRCLK TCLK
4. Clock2 is the master TCLK and the slave RCLK.