CS8900A
Crystal LAN™ Ethernet Controller
base + 000Ch). If Rdy4TxNOW is set, the
frame can be written. If clear, the host must
wait for CS8900A buffer memory to be-
come available. If Rdy4TxiE (Register B,
BufCFG, Bit 8) is set, the host will be inter-
rupted when Rdy4Tx (Register C, BufE-
vent, Bit 8) becomes set. If the TxBidErr bit
(Register 18, BusST, Bit 7) is set, the trans-
mit length is not valid.
base + 0000h) to transfer the frame from
CS8900A memory to host memory. Pre-
ceding the frame data are the contents of
the RxStatus register (PacketPage base +
0400h) and the RxLength register (Pack-
etPage base + 0402h).
For a more detailed description of receive, see
Section 5.2 on page 78.
4.10.10 Accessing Internal Registers
3) Once the CS8900A is ready to accept the
frame, the host executes repetitive write in-
structions (REP OUT) to the Re-
ceive/Transmit Data Port (I/O base +
0000h) to transfer the entire frame from
host memory to CS8900A memory.
To access any of the CS8900A's internal reg-
isters in I/O Mode, the host must first setup the
PacketPage Pointer. It does this by writing the
PacketPage address of the target register to
the PacketPage Pointer Port (I/O base +
000Ah). The contents of the target register is
then mapped into the PacketPage Data Port
(I/O base + 000Ch).
For a more detailed description of transmit,
see Section 5.6 on page 99.
4.10.9 Basic I/O Mode Receive
If the host needs to access a sequential block
of registers, the MSB of the PacketPage ad-
I/O Mode receive operations occur in the fol-
lowing order (In this example, interrupts are dress of the first word to be accessed should
enabled to signal the presence of a valid re-
ceive frame):
be set to "1". The PacketPage Pointer will then
move to the next word location automatically,
eliminating the need to setup the PacketPage
Pointer between successive accesses (see
Figure 18).
1) A frame is received by the CS8900A, trig-
gering an enabled interrupt.
2) The host reads the Interrupt Status Queue
Port (I/O base + 0008h) and is informed of
the receive frame.
4.10.11 Polling the CS8900A in I/O Mode
If interrupts are not used, the host can poll the
CS8900A to check if receive frames are
present and if memory space is available for
transmit.
3) The host reads the frame data by execut-
ing repetitive read instructions (REP IN)
from the Receive/Transmit Data Port (I/O
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