Small Footprint RMII 10/100 Ethernet Transceiver with HP Auto-MDIX Support

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CRS_DV toggles at 25 MHz in 100Mb/s mode and 2.5 MHz in 10Mb/s mode when CRS ends before RXDV (i.e. the FIFO still has bits to transfer when the carrier event ends.) Therefore, the MAC can accurately recover RXDV and CRS.

During a false carrier event, CRS_DV shall remain asserted for the duration of carrier activity. The data on RXD[1:0] is considered valid once CRS_DV is asserted. However, since the assertion of CRS_DV is asynchronous relative to REF_CLK, the data on RXD[1:0] shall be “00” until proper receive signal decoding takes place.

4.7Reference Clock

The LAN8720 is designed to operate in one of two available modes as shown in Table 4.2.

Table 4.2 REFCLK Modes

MODE

REF_CLK DESCRIPTION

REF_CLK In Mode Sourced externally, driven on the XTAL1/CLKIN pin

REF_CLK Out Mode Sourced by LAN8720/LAN8720i at the REFCLKO pin

During start-up, the LAN8720 monitors the LED2/nINTSEL pin to determine which mode has been configured as described in Section 4.10.

In the first mode, the 50MHz REF_CLK is driven on the XTAL1/CLKIN pin. This is the traditional system configuration when using RMII, and is described in Section 4.7.1. In the second mode, an advanced feature of the LAN8720 allows a low-cost 25MHz crystal to be used as the reference for REF_CLK. This configuration may result in reduced system cost and is described in Section 4.7.2.

Revision 1.0 (05-28-09)

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SMSC LAN8720/LAN8720i

 

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