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OFFSET

NAME

TYPE

SYMBOL

6

COUNTER REGISTER

READ ONLY

ECR

Counts four parameters for MAC statistics. When any counter reaches 15 an interrupt is issued. All counters are cleared when reading the register and do not wrap around beyond 15.

HIGH BYTE

LOW BYTE

NUMBER OF EXC. DEFFERED TX

 

NUMBER OF DEFFERED TX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

MULTIPLE COLLISION COUNT

 

 

SINGLE COLLISION COUNT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Each four bit counter is incremented every time the corresponding event, as defined in the EPH STATUS REGISTER bit description, occurs. Note that the counters can only increment once per enqueued transmit packet, never faster, limiting the rate of interrupts that can be generated by the counters. For example if a packet is successfully transmitted after one collision the SINGLE COLLISION COUNT field is incremented by one. If a packet experiences between 2 to 16 collisions, the MULTIPLE COLLISION COUNT field is incremented by one. If a packet experiences

deferral the NUMBER OF DEFERRED TX field is incremented by one, even if the packet experienced multiple deferrals during its collision retries.

The COUNTER REGISTER facilitates maintaining statistics in the AUTO RELEASE mode where no transmit interrupts are generated on successful transmissions.

Reading the register in the transmit service routine will be enough to maintain statistics.

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