Texas Instruments TNETX4090 specifications Interaction of Eeprom load with the SIO register

TNETX4090

ThunderSWITCH II 9-PORT 100-/1000-MBIT/S ETHERNET SWITCH

SPWS044E ± DECEMBER 1997 ± REVISED AUGUST 1999

EEPROM interface (continued)

After the initial start condition, a slave address containing a device address of 000 is output on EDIO, and then EDIO is observed for an acknowledge from the EEPROM. If an acknowledge is received, operation continues for the 24C02 EEPROM. If none is received, a stop condition is generated, followed by another start condition and slave address, this time containing a device address of 101. If this receives no acknowledge, no EEPROM is present, and device operation continues, using the current register settings (i.e., those following a hardware reset, or those previously entered by software).

When this device is driving EDIO, it drives out only a strong logical 0. When a logical 1 is intended to be driven out, the terminal must be resistively pulled high. An on-chip 50-∝A current-source pullup device is provided on this terminal. The system designer must decide if this is sufficient to achieve a logical 1 level in a timely manner or if an external supplementary resistor is required.

Multiple bus masters are not supported on the EEPROM interface because the ECLK terminal always is driven by the device with a strong 0/strong 1 (i.e., not a strong 1/resistively pulled-up 1).

An Ethernet CRC check is used to ensure the EEPROM data is valid. The 4-byte CRC should be placed within the EEPROM in four data bytes immediately following the last byte to be loaded (equivalent to locations 0x00FC±0x00FF, just above SysControl). As each byte is loaded from the EEPROM, the bits within that byte are entered into the CRC checker bit-wise, most significant bit first.

A valid CRC always must be provided by the EEPROM. The EEPROM data for the most significant bit of SysControl is withheld until the CRC computed by the device has been checked against the one read from the EEPROM. If the CRC is invalid:

DThe reset bit is set to 1 in SysControl, load and initd are both 0, and the TNETX4090 does not begin operation.

DThe fault LED is illuminated and remains in that state until the TNETX4090 is hardware reset or until load in SysControl is set to 1.

interaction of EEPROM load with the SIO register

The EDIO terminal is shared with the SIO register edata bit. The edata and etxen bits must not both be set to 1 when the load bit is set or the EDIO terminal is held at resistive 1 and the EEPROM load fails.

The value of the eclk bit in SIO is don't care when load is set, but to ensure the EEPROM does not see a glitch on its clock signal, the load bit should not be set until the minimum clock high or low time required by the EEPROM on its clock signal has expired since the eclk bit was last changed.

The SIO register is not loaded during the EEPROM download.

summary of EEPROM load outcomes

Table 14 summarizes the various states of register bits and the fault LED for each possible outcome following an EEPROM load attempt.

Table 14. Summary of EEPROM Load Outcomes

OUTCOME	STOP	LOAD	INITD²	FAULT LED	ECLK
Successful load	0	0	1	0³	Not locked
No EEPROM present	0	0	0	0³	Locked
CRC error detected	1	0	0	1	Not locked

² Assuming the start bit was set to 1 by the EEPROM load

³Assuming the fault bit in LEDControl = 0 and no memory system parity error is detected

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