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OFFSET

NAME

TYPE

SYMBOL

A

MEMORY CONFIGURATION

Lower Byte -

MCR

 

REGISTER

READ/WRITE

 

 

 

Upper Byte -

 

 

 

READ ONLY

 

HIGH BYTE

LOW BYTE

 

 

 

 

MEMORY SIZE MULTIPLIER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0

0

1

1

0

0

1

1

 

MEMORY RESERVED FOR TRANSMIT (IN BYTES * 256 * M)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MEMORY RESERVED FOR TRANSMIT - Programming this value allows the host CPU to reserve memory to be used later for transmit, limiting the amount of memory that receive packets can use up.

When programmed for zero, the memory allocation between transmit and receive is completely dynamic.

When programmed for a non-zero value, the allocation is dynamic if the free memory exceeds the programmed value, while receive allocation requests are denied if the free memory is less or equal to the programmed value.

This register defaults to zero upon reset. It is not affected by the RESET MMU command.

The value written to the MCR is a reserved memory space IN ADDITION TO ANY MEMORY CURRENTLY IN USE. If the memory allocated for transmit plus the reserved space for transmit is required to be constant (rather than grow with transmit allocations) the CPU should update the value of this register after allocating or releasing memory.

The contents of MIR as well as the low byte of MCR are specified in 256 * M bytes. The multiplier M is determined by bits 11,10, and 9 as follows. Bits 11,10 and 9 are read only bits used by the software driver to transparently run on different controllers of the SMC9000 family.

DEVICE

bit 11

bit 10

bit 9

M

MAX MEMORY SIZE

 

 

 

 

 

 

FEAST

0

1

0

2

256*256*2=128k

 

 

 

 

 

 

SMC91C90

0

0

1

1

256*256*1=64k

FUTURE

0

1

1

4

256k

 

 

 

 

 

 

FUTURE

1

0

0

8

512k

FUTURE

1

0

1

16

1M

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SMC Networks SMC91C95 manual Space BANK0 Offset Name Type Symbol Memory Configuration, Mcr, Register READ/WRITE, Device