78Q2123/78Q2133 MicroPHY™
10/100BASE-TX Transceiver
oscillator. In this mode of operation, a 25MHz crystal
should be connected between the XTLP and XTLN
pins. Alternatively, an external 25MHz clock input
can be connected to the XTLP pin. In this mode of
operation, a crystal is not required and the XTLN pin
must be tied to ground.
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
GENERAL
Power Management
The 78Q2123 and 78Q2133 have three power
saving modes:
Transmit Clock Generation
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Chip Power-Down
Receive Power Management
Transmit High Impedance Mode
The transmitter uses an on-chip frequency
synthesizer to generate the transmit clock. In
100BASE-TX operation, the synthesizer multiplies the
reference clock by 5 to obtain the internal 125MHz
Chip power-down is activated by setting the PWRDN
bit in MII register MR0.11. When the chip is in
power-down mode, all on-chip circuitry is shut off,
and the device consumes minimum power. While in
the power-down state, the 78Q2123/78Q2133 still
respond to management transactions.
Receive power management (RXCC mode) is
activated by setting the RXCC bit in MII register
MR16.0. In this mode of operation, the adaptive
equalizer, the clock recovery phase lock loop (PLL),
and all other receive circuitry will be powered down
when no valid MLT-3 signal is present at the UTP
receive line interface. As soon as a valid signal is
detected, all circuits will automatically be powered
up to resume normal operation. During this mode of
operation, RX_CLK will be inactive when there is no
data being received. Note that the RXCC mode is
not supported during 10BASE-T operation.
serial transmit clock.
In 10BASE-T mode, it
generates an internal 20MHz transmit clock by
multiplying the reference 25MHz clock by 4/5. The
synthesizer references either the local 25 MHz crystal
oscillator, or the externally applied clock, depending
on the selected mode of operation.
Receive Signal Qualification
The integrated signal qualifier has separate squelch
and unsquelch thresholds. It also includes a built-in
timer to ensure fast and accurate signal detection and
line noise rejection. Upon detection of two or more
valid 10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX pulses on the line
receive port, signal detect is indicated. The signal
detect threshold is then lowered by about 40%. All
adaptive circuits are released from their initial states
and allowed to lock onto the incoming data. In
100BASE-TX operation, signal detect is de-asserted
when no signal is presented for a period of about
1.2us. In 10BASE-T operation, signal detect is de-
asserted whenever no Manchester data is received. In
either case, the signal detect threshold will return to the
squelched level whenever the signal detect indication
is de-asserted. Signal detect is also used to control the
operation of the clock/data recovery circuit to assure
fast acquisition.
Transmit high impedance mode is activated by
setting the TXHIM bit in MII register MR16.12. In this
mode of operation, the transmit UTP drivers are in a
high impedance state and TX_CLK is tri-stated. A
weak internal pull-up is enabled on TX_CLK. The
receive circuitry remains fully operational. The
default state of MR16.12 is a logic low for disabling
the transmit high impedance mode. Only a reset
condition will automatically clear MR16.12. The
transmitter is fully functional when MR16.12 is
cleared. This feature is useful when configuring a
Receive Clock Recovery
In 100BASE-TX mode, the 125MHz receive clock is
extracted using a digital DLL-based loop. When no
receive signal is present, the CDR is directed to lock
onto the 125MHz transmit serial clock. When signal
detect is asserted, the CDR will use the received MLT-
3 signal as the clock reference. The recovered clock is
used to re-time the data signal and for conversion of
the data to NRZ format.
system
for
Wake-On
LAN
(when
the
78Q2123/78Q2133 are coupled with a Wake-On
LAN capable MAC).
Analog Biasing and Supply Regulation
The 78Q2123/78Q2133 require no external
component to generate on-chip bias voltages and
currents. High accuracy is maintained through a
closed-loop trimmed biasing network.
On-chip digital logic runs off an internal voltage
regulator. Hence only a single 3.3V (± 0.3V) supply
is required to power-up the device. The on-chip
regulator is not affected by the power-down mode.
Clock Selection
The 78Q2123/78Q2133 have an on-chip crystal
oscillator which can also be driven by an external
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