KS152JB Universal Communications Controller Technical Specifications
be in some other mode than the user intends for a significant amount of time after reset. To pre- vent unwanted GSC errors from occurring, the user should not enable the GSC or the GSC inter- rupts for 170 machine cycles ((256 X 8) /12) after LNI bit is set.
3.2 CSMA/CD Operation
3.2.1 CSMA/CD OVERVIEW
CSMA/CD Operates by sensing the transmission line for a carrier, which indicates link activity. At the end of link activity, a station must wait a period of time, called the deference period, before transmission may begin. The deference period is also known as the interframe space. The inter- frame space is explained in Section 3.2.3
With this type of operation, there is always the possibility of a collision occurring after the defer- ence period due to line delays. If a collision is detected after transmission is started, a jamming mechanism is used to ensure that all stations monitoring the line are aware of the collision. A res- olution algorithm is then executed to resolve the contention. There are three different modes of collision resolution made available to the user on the C152.
Normally, in CSMA/CD,
3.2.2 CSMA/CD FRAME FORMAT
The frame format in CSMA/CD consists of preamble, Beginning of Frame flag (BOF), address field, information field, CRC, and End of Frame flag (EOF) as shown in Figure
PREAMBLE
BOF
ADDRESS
INFO
CRC
EOF
Typical CSMA/CD Frame
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