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8.6 Ethernet MAC Switch (EMAC SW)
The EMAC SW controls the flow of packet data between the device and two external Ethernet PHYs, with
hardware flow control and quality-of-service (QOS) support. The EMAC SW contains a 3-port gigabit
switch, where one port is internally connected and the other two ports are brought out externally. Each of
the external EMAC ports supports 10Base-T (10 Mbits/second [Mbps]), and 100BaseTX (100 Mbps), in
either half- or full-duplex mode, and 1000BaseT (1000 Mbps) in full-duplex mode.
The EMAC SW controls the flow of packet data from the device to the external PHYs. The EMAC0/1 ports
on the device support four interface modes: Media Independent Interface (MII), Gigabit Media
Independent Interface (GMII), Reduced Media Independent Interface (RMII) and Reduced Gigabit Media
Independent Interface (RGMII). In addition, a single MDIO interface is pinned out to control the PHY
configuration and status monitoring. Multiple external PHYs can be controlled by the MDIO interface.
The EMAC SW module conforms to the IEEE 802.3-2002 standard, describing the “Carrier Sense Multiple
Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer” specifications. The IEEE
802.3 standard has also been adopted by ISO/IEC and re-designated as ISO/IEC 8802-3:2000(E).
Deviating from this standard, the EMAC SW module does not use the Transmit Coding Error signal
MTXER. Instead of driving the error pin when an underflow condition occurs on a transmitted frame, the
EMAC SW will intentionally generate an incorrect checksum by inverting the frame CRC, so that the
transmitted frame will be detected as an error by the network. In addition, the EMAC SW I/Os operate at
3.3 V and are not compatible with 2.5-V I/O signaling. Therefore, only Ethernet PHYs with 3.3-V I/O
interface should be used.
In networking systems, packet transmission and reception are critical tasks. The communications port
programming interface (CPPI) protocol maximizes the efficiency of interaction between the host software
and communications modules. The CPPI block contains 2048 words of 32-bit buffer descriptor memory
that holds up to 512 buffer descriptors.
Ethernet port mirroring is not supported internally on this device. This function is supported by using an
external Ethernet repeater.
For more detailed information on the EMAC SW module, see the 3PSW Ethernet Subsystem chapter in
the device-specific Technical Reference Manual.
8.6.1 EMAC Peripheral Register Descriptions
The EMAC peripheral registers are described in the device-specific Technical Reference Manual. Each
register is documented as an offset from a base address for the peripheral. The base addresses for all of
the peripherals are in the device memory map (see Section 2.10).
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