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

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4.7.1REF_CLK In Mode

A 50MHz source of REF_CLK must be available external to the LAN8720 when using this mode. The clock is driven to both the MAC and PHY as shown in Figure 4.4.

 

 

 

 

 

 

LAN8720

 

 

 

 

 

 

10/100 PHY

 

 

 

 

 

 

24-QFN

MAC

RMII

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MDIO

RMII

 

 

 

Accepts external

 

 

 

 

MDC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nINT

 

50MHz clock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TXD[1:0]

TXP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

TXEN

TXN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RXP

 

 

 

 

 

RXD[1:0]

 

 

 

2

 

 

RXN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CRS_DV

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REF_CLK

 

 

 

 

RXER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LED[2:1]

XTAL1/CLKIN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nRST

XTAL2

 

Interface

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

50MHzReferenceClock
Mag RJ45

All RMII signals are synchronous to the supplied clock

Figure 4.4 External 50MHz clock sources the REF_CLK

4.7.2REF_CLK OUT Mode

To reduce BOM cost, the LAN8720 includes a feature to generate the RMII REF_CLK signal from a low-cost, 25MHz, fundamental crystal. This type of crystal is inexpensive in comparison to 3rd overtone crystals that would normally be required for 50MHz. The MAC must be capable of operating with an external clock to take advantage of this feature as shown in Figure 4.5.

The LAN8720 is a small size, low pin count device. In order to optimize package size and cost, the REFCLKO pin is multiplexed with the nINT pin. Therefore, in this specific mode of operation, the nINT pin is disabled since REFCLKO is used to provide the 50MHz clock to the MAC.

SMSC LAN8720/LAN8720i

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Revision 1.0 (05-28-09)

 

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