NSE-8G™ Standard Product Data Sheet
Preliminary
12.12.4 Handling the Receive Header
12.12.5 Handling Interrupts
All interrupts are masked on startup, and should not be enabled until the link initializes.
12.12.6 Bypass Function
Functional block transmit and receive functions can be disabled independently (or together) by
writing a ‘1’ to:
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The LSB (TX_BYPASS) of the Transmit Control register to enable transmit bypass.
The LSB (RX_BYPASS) of the Receive Control register to enable receive bypass.
When in bypass mode, message FIFO rams are disabled and the ILC functions as a 2-stage
pipeline. When TX_BYPASS is set, writes to the transmit FIFO are ignored and when
RX_BYPASS is set, reads from the receive FIFO return random data.
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