SMSC LAN1198 2.2 Common Product Family Features

LAN9118 Family Programmer Reference Guide

SMSC AN 12.12 3 Revision 1.0 (12-14-09)

APPLICATION NOTE

2.1.2 System Level Block Diagram

Figure 2.2 LAN9118 Family Device System-Level Block-Diagram

2.2 Common Product Family Features

Single chip Ethernet controller

Fully compliant with IEEE 802.3/802.3u standards

Integrated Ethernet MAC and PHY

10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX support

Full- and Half-duplex support

Full-duplex flow control

Backpressure for half-duplex flow control

Preamble generation and removal

Automatic 32-bit CRC generation and checking

Automatic payload padding and pad removal

Loop-back modes

Flexible address filtering modes

One 48-bit perfect address

64 hash-filtered multicast addresses

Pass all multicast

Promiscuous mode

Inverse filtering

Pass all incoming with status report

Disable reception of broadcast packets

Integrated Ethernet PHY

Auto-negotiation

Automatic polarity correction

Microprocessor/

Microcontroller

LAN9118

Family

Member

Magnetics Ethernet

System

Peripherals

System Memory

System Bus

EEPROM

(Optional)

LEDS/GPIO

25MHz

XTAL

System Memory

Contents

Main AN 12.12 LAN9118 Family Programmer Reference Guide 1 Introduction 1.1 References 1.2 Document Conventions 2 Controller Overview 2.1 Block Diagrams 2.1.1 Internal Block Diagram 2.1.2 System Level Block Diagram 2.2 Common Product Family Features Microprocessor/ Microcontroller LAN9118 Family Member Page 3 Register Description Figure 3.1 LAN9118 Family Device Memory MAP MAC CSR Port SLAVE CSR's RESERVED EEPROM Port 3.1 Directly Addressable Registers 3.2 MAC Control and Status Registers 3.3 PHY Registers 3.4 Restrictions on Read-Follow-Write CSR Accesses 3.5 Restrictions on Read-Follow-Read CSR Accesses 4 Programming Recommendations 4.1 The Necessity of Register Ownership 4.2 The Importance of Planning (strcmp(Fail to Plan) == strcmp (Plan to Fail)) 4.3 Orthogonal Register Set 4.4 Register Functionality in the LAN9118 Family Devices 4.5 An Example of Concurrency 4.6 Software Interrupt Feature (SwInt) 4.7 Ownership Policy in the Simple Driver Page 5 Initialization 5.1 MAC Initialization 5.1.1 Software Reset of the MAC 5.1.2 FIFO Allocation and Flow-Control Configuration 5.1.3 Setting the MAC Address 5.1.3.1 The Unicast Address Register 5.2 Configuring Interrupts 5.2.1 Configuring the IRQ Pin 5.2.2 Setting The Interrupt De-assertion Period 5.2.3 Enabling and Disabling Interrupts 5.3 Stopping and Starting the Transmitter 5.4 Stopping and Starting the Receiver 5.5 Configuring Address Filtering Options 5.5.1 Configuring Multicast Filtering 5.5.2 Promiscuous Mode 5.6 PHY Detection and Initialization Page Page 5.7 Switching Between Internal and External PHYs Page 5.8 Examples of PHY MII Register Reads and Writes Page Page 6 Transmit Packet Processing 6.1 Transmit Data Transfer 6.2 Command Word Construction 6.3 Per Packet Flow Control 6.4 Packet Transfer Completion: Management Statistics 6.5 Transmit Packet Examples Page Revision 1.0 (12-14-09) 32 SMSC AN 12.12 Figure 6.1 Multiple (3) Buffer Data Single Packet Transfer Sequence Table6.6 TX_C MD_A for Segment 1 0x0 0x3 1 0 0x1d Table6.7 TX_C MD_B for Segment 1 PACKET Table6.8 TX_C MD_A for Segment 2 Table6.9 TX_CMD_B for Segment 2 6.6 The Overall Packet Transmit Process Page 7 Receive Packet Processing Page 7.1 Receive Data Transfer 7.2 Purging Receive Packets 7.3 Flow Control Function 7.3.1 Backpressure 7.3.2 Pause Frames 8 Instrumentation and Debug 8.1 Debug Prints 8.1.1 SMSC_TRACE(message, parameters) 8.1.2 SMSC_WARNING(message, parameters) 8.1.3 SMSC_ASSERT(condition) 8.2 GPIO pins in Conjunction with Oscilloscope 8.3 TxCLK and RxCLK 8.4 Error Interrupts are Invaluable Tools 8.5 Integrating the Driver: Early Testing 9 Power Management Events 9.1 System Description