91C100FDREVB Datasheet, PDF (37/68 Pages) SMSC Corporation – FEAST FAST ETHERNET CONTROLLER WITH FULL DUPLEX CAPABILITY

TYPICAL FLOW OF EVENTS FOR TRANSMIT
S/W DRIVER
MAC SIDE
1 ISSUE ALLOCATE MEMORY FOR TX - N
BYTES - the MMU attempts to allocate N bytes
of RAM.
2 WAIT FOR SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION
CODE - Poll until the ALLOC INT bit is set or
enable its mask bit and wait for the interrupt.
The TX packet number is now at the Allocation
Result Register.
3 LOAD TRANSMIT DATA - Copy the TX packet
number into the Packet Number Register. Write
the Pointer Register, then use a block move
operation from the upper layer transmit queue
into the Data Register.
4 ISSUE "ENQUEUE PACKET NUMBER TO TX
FIFO" - This command writes the number
present in the Packet Number Register into the
TX FIFO. The transmission is now enqueued.
No further CPU intervention is needed until a
transmit interrupt is generated.
5
The enqueued packet will be transferred to the
MAC block as a function of TXENA (nTCR) bit
and of the deferral process (1/2 duplex mode
only) state.
6
Upon transmit completion the first word in
memory is written with the status word. The
packet number is moved from the TX FIFO into
the TX completion FIFO. Interrupt is generated
by the TX completion FIFO being not empty.
7 SERVICE INTERRUPT - Read Interrupt Status
Register. If it is a transmit interrupt, read the TX
Done Packet Number from the Fifo Ports
Register. Write the packet number into the
Packet Number Register. The corresponding
status word is now readable from memory. If
status word shows successful transmission,
issue RELEASE packet number command to
free up the memory used by this packet.
Remove packet number from completion FIFO
by writing TX INT Acknowledge Register.
SMSC DS – LAN91C100FD REV. B
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Rev. 05/31/2000