ICS1893BY-10 Data Sheet - Release
Chapter 6 Functional Blocks
6.6.2.1 Management Frame Preamble
The ICS1893BY-10 continually monitors its serial management interface for either valid data or a
Management Frame (MF) Preamble, based upon the setting of the MF Preamble Suppression bit, 1.6.
When the MF Preamble Suppression is disabled, an ICS1893BY-10 waits for a MF Preamble which
indicates the start of an STA transaction. A Management Frame Preamble is a pattern of 32 contiguous
logic one bits on the MDIO pin, along with 32 corresponding clock cycles on the MDC pin.
The ICS1893BY-10 supports the Management Frame (MF) Preamble Suppression capability on its
Management Interface, thereby providing a method to shorten the Management Frame and provide an STA
with faster access to the Management Registers.
The ability to process Management Frames that do not have a preamble is provided by the Management
Frame Preamble Suppression bit, (bit 1.6 in the ICS1893BY-10’s Status Register). This is an ISO/IEC
defined status bit that is intended to provide an indication of whether or not a PHY supports the MF
Preamble Suppression feature. In order to maintain backward compatibility with the ICS1890, which did not
support MF Preamble Suppression, the ICS1893BY-10 MF Preamble Suppression bit is a Command
Override Write bit which defaults to a logic zero. An STA can enable MF Preamble Suppression by writing
a logic one to bit 1.6 subsequent to a write of logic one to the Command Override bit, 16.15. For an
explanation of the Command Override Write bits, see Section 7.1.2, “Management Register Bit Access”.
6.6.2.2 Management Frame Start
A valid Management Frame includes a start-of-frame delimiter, SFD, immediately following the preamble.
The SFD bit pattern is 01b and is synchronous with two clock cycles on the MDC pin.
6.6.2.3 Management Frame Operation Code
A valid Management Frame includes an operation code (OP) immediately following the start-of-frame
delimiter. There are two valid operation codes: one for reading from a management register, 10b, and one
for writing to a management register, 01b. The ICS1893BY-10 does not respond to the codes 00b and 11b,
which the ISO/IEC specification defines as invalid.
6.6.2.4 Management Frame PHY Address
The two-wire, Serial Management Interface is specified to allow busing (that is, the sharing of the two wires
among multiple PHYs). The Management Frame includes a 5-bit PHY Address field, PHYAD, allowing for
32 unique addresses. An STA uniquely identifies each of the PHYs that share a single serial management
interface by using this 5-bit PHY Address field, PHYAD.
Upon receiving a valid STA transaction, during a power-on or hardware reset an ICS1893BY-10 compares
the PHYAD field included within the management frame with the value of its PHYAD bits stored in register
16. (For information on the PHYAD bits, see Table 7-16.) An ICS1893BY-10 responds to all transactions
that match its stored address bits.
6.6.2.5 Management Frame Register Address
A Management Frame includes a 5-bit register address field, REGAD. This field identifies which of the 32
Management Registers are involved in a transaction between an STA and a PHY.
6.6.2.6 Management Frame Operational Code
A management frame includes a 2-bit operational code field, OP. If the operation code is a:
• Read, the REGAD field identifies the register used as the source of data returned to the STA by the
ICS1893BY-10.
• Write, the REGAD identifies the destination register that is to receive the data sent by the STA to the
ICS1893BY-10.
ICS1893BY-10 Rev A 3/24/04
March, 2004
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