Intel IXF1104 manual Mphy Operation, Mphy Logical Timing, Data Path

Intel® IXF1104 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Controller

The SPI3 interface supports the following two modes of operation:

•MPHY or 32 bit mode (one 32-bit data bus)

•SPHY or 4 x 8 mode (four individual 8-bit data buses)

5.2.1MPHY Operation

The MPHY operation mode is selected when bit 21 of the“SPI3 Transmit and Global Configuration ($0x700)” is set to 0 and bit 7 of the “SPI3 Receive Configuration ($0x701)" is set to 1.

Data Path

The IXF1104 MAC SPI3 interface has a single 32-bit data path in the MPHY configuration mode (see Figure 13). The bus interface is point-to-point (one output driving only one input load), so a 32-bit data bus would support only one IXF1104 MAC.

To support variable-length packets, the RMOD[1:0]/TMOD[1:0] signals are defined to specify valid bytes in the 32-bit data bus structure. Each double-word must contain four valid bytes of packet data until the last double-word of the packet transfer, which is marked with the end of packet REOP/TEOP signal. This last double-word of the transfer contains up to four valid bytes specified by the RMOD[1:0]/TMOD[1:0] signals.

The IXF1104 MAC port selection is performed using in-band addressing. In the transmit direction, the network processor device selects an IXF1104 MAC port by sending the address on the TDAT[1:0] bus marked with the TSX signal active and TENB signal inactive. All subsequent TDAT[1:0] bus operations marked with the TSX signal inactive and the TENB active are packet data for the specified port.

In the receive direction, the IXF1104 MAC specifies the selected port by sending the address on the RDAT[1:0] bus marked with the RSX signal active and RVAL signal inactive. All subsequent RDAT[1:0] bus operations marked with RSX inactive and RVAL active are packet data from the specified port.

Note: See Table 17 “SPI3 MPHY/SPHY Interface” on page 59 for a complete list of the MPHY mode signals. The control signals with the port designator for Port 0 are the only ones used in MPHY mode and they apply to all 4 ports. Table 3 “SPI3 Interface Signal Descriptions” on page 39 provides a comprehensive list of SPI3 signal descriptions.

5.2.1.1SPI3 RX Round Robin Data Transmission

The IXF1104 MAC uses a round-robin protocol to service each of the 4 ports dependent upon the enable status of the port and if there is data available to be taken from the RX FIFO. The round robin order goes from port 0, port 1, port 2, port 3, and back to port 0. A port is skipped and the next port is serviced if it has no available transmit data. The data transfer bursts are user- configurable burst lengths of 64, 128, or 256 bytes. The IXF1104 MAC also has a configurable pause interval between data transfer bursts on the receive side of the interface. The RX SPI3 burst lengths and the pause interval can be set in the “SPI3 Receive Configuration ($0x701)").

5.2.2MPHY Logical Timing

The SPI3 interface AC timing for MPHY can be found in Section 7.2, “SPI3 AC Timing Specifications” on page 137. Logical timing in the following diagrams illustrates all signals associated with MPHY mode.

Datasheet 84

Document Number: 278757

Revision Number: 009

Revision Date: 27-Oct-2005