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2.9Media Independent Interface (MII)

The following sections discuss the operation of the Media Independent Interface (MII) in 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps mode. An IEEE 802.3 compliant Ethernet MAC controls the interface.

2.9.1Data Reception

2.9.1.1Receive Control

Data received from the PHY is interpreted and output to the EMAC receive FIFO. Interpretation involves detection and removal of the preamble and start-of-frame delimiter, extraction of the address and frame length, data handling, error checking and reporting, cyclic redundancy checking (CRC), and statistics control signal generation. Address detection and frame filtering is performed outside the MII interface.

2.9.1.2Receive Inter-Frame Interval

The 802.3 standard requires an interpacket gap (IPG), which is 24 MII clocks (96 bit times). However, the EMAC can tolerate a reduced IPG (2 MII clocks or 8 bit times) with a correct preamble and start frame delimiter. This interval between frames must comprise (in the following order):

1.An Interpacket Gap (IPG).

2.A 7-byte preamble (all bytes 55h).

3.A 1-byte start of frame delimiter (5DH).

2.9.1.3Receive Flow Control

When enabled and triggered, receive flow control is initiated to limit the EMAC from further frame reception. Two forms of receive flow control are implemented on the DM646x DMSoC:

∙Receive buffer flow control

∙Receive FIFO flow control

When enabled and triggered, receive buffer flow control prevents further frame reception based on the number of free buffers available. Receive buffer flow control issues flow control collisions in half-duplex mode and IEEE 802.3X pause frames for full-duplex mode. Receive buffer flow control is triggered when the number of free buffers in any enabled receive channel free buffer count register (RXnFREEBUFFER) is less than or equal to the receive channel flow control threshold register (RXnFLOWTHRESH) value. Receive flow control is independent of receive QOS, except that both use the free buffer values.

When enabled and triggered, receive FIFO flow control prevents further frame reception based on the number of cells currently in the receive FIFO. Receive FIFO flow control may be enabled only in full-duplex mode (FULLDUPLEX bit is set in the in the MAC control register, MACCONTROL). Receive flow control prevents reception of frames on the port until all of the triggering conditions clear, at which time frames may again be received by the port.

Receive FIFO flow control is triggered when the occupancy of the FIFO is greater than or equal to the RXFIFOFLOWTHRESH value in the FIFO control register (FIFOCONTROL). The RXFIFOFLOWTHRESH value must be greater than or equal to 1h and less than or equal to 42h (decimal 66). The RXFIFOFLOWTHRESH reset value is 2h.

Receive flow control is enabled by the RXBUFFERFLOWEN bit and the RXFIFOFLOWEN bit in MACCONTROL. The FULLDUPLEX bit in MACCONTROL configures the EMAC for collision or IEEE 802.3X flow control.

SPRUEQ6–December 2007

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TMS320DM646x specifications

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