CS8900A
Crystal LAN™ Ethernet Controller
Bit 7 Bit 6
0
0
1
1
0
1
0
Start transmission after 5 bytes are in the CS8900A
Start transmission after 381 bytes are in the CS8900A
Start transmission after 1021 bytes are in the CS8900A
Start transmission after the entire frame is in the CS8900A
1
Force
When set in conjunction with a new transmit command, any transmit frames waiting in the trans-
mit buffer are deleted. If a previous packet has started transmission, that packet is terminated
within 64 bit times with a bad CRC.
Onecoll
When this bit is set, any transmission will be terminated after only one collision. When clear, the
CS8900A allows up to 16 normal collisions before terminating the transmission.
InhibitCRC
TxPadDis
When set, the CRC is not appended to the transmission.
When TxPadDis is clear, if the host gives a transmit length less than 60 bytes and InhibitCRC
is set, then the CS8900A pads to 60 bytes. If the host gives a transmit length less than 60 bytes
and InhibitCRC is clear, then the CS8900A pads to 60 bytes and appends the CRC.
When TxPadDis is set, the CS8900A allows the transmission of runt frames (a frame less than
64 bytes). If InhibitCRC is clear, the CS8900A appends the CRC. If InhibitCRC is set, the
CS8900A does not append the CRC
After reset, if no EEPROM is found by the CS8900A, then the register has the following initial state. If an EEPROM
is found, then the register's initial value may be set by the EEPROM. See Section 3.3 on page 19.
Register value is: 0000 0000 0000 1001
Notes: The CS8900A does not transmit a frame if TxLength < 3
4.4.12 Register B: Buffer Configuration
(BufCFG, Read/Write, Address: PacketPage base + 010Ah)
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
9
0
8
RxDMAiE
SWint-X
001011
F
E
D
C
B
A
RxDestiE
Miss OvfloiE TxCol OvfloiE
Rx128iE
RxMissiE
TxUnder runtiE Rdy4TxiE
Each bit in BufCFG is an interrupt enable. When set, the interrupt described below is enabled. When clear, there is
no interrupt.
001011
These bits provide an internal address used by the CS8900A to identify this as the Buffer Con-
figuration Register.
SWint-X
When set, there is an interrupt requested by the host software. The CS8900A provides the in-
terrupt, and sets the SWint (Register C, BufEvent, Bit 6) bit. The CS8900A acts upon this com-
mand at once. SWint-X is an Act-Once bit. To generate another interrupt, rewrite a "1" to this bit.
RxDMAiE
When set, there is an interrupt when a frame has been received and DMA is complete. With
this interrupt, the RxDMAFrame bit (Register C, BufEvent, Bit 7) is set.
Rdy4TxiE
When set, there is an interrupt when the CS8900A is ready to accept a frame from the host for
transmission. (See Section 5.6 on page 99 for a description of the transmit bid process.)
TxUnderruniE
When set, there is an interrupt if the CS8900A runs out of data before it reaches the end of the
frame (called a transmit underrun). When this happens, event bit TXUnderrun (Register C,
BufEvent, Bit 9) is set and the CS8900A makes no further attempts to transmit that frame. If the
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