COM20020_00 Datasheet, PDF (77/82 Pages) SMSC Corporation – Universal Local Area Network Controller with 2K x 8 On-Board RAM

APPENDIX A
NOSYNC bit. When it finds that the micro-
This appendix describes the function of the program is in the initialization routine, it disables
NOSYNC and EF bits.
the SYNC command. In this case, the
initialization will not be held up by the line status.
NOSYNC Bit
The NOSYNC bit controls whether or not the
RAM initialization sequence requires the line to
be idle by enabling or disabling the SYNC
command during initialization. It is defined as
follows:
Thus, by setting the NOSYNC bit, the line does
not have to be idle for the RAM initialization
sequence to be written.
EF Bit
NOSYNC: Enable/Disable SYNC command
during initialization. NOSYNC=0, Enable
(Default): the line has to be idle for the RAM
initialization sequence to be written, NOSYNC=1,
Disable: the line does not have to be idle for the
RAM initialization sequence to be written.
The following discussion describes the function
of this bit:
The EF bit controls several modifications to
internal operation timing and logic. It is defined
as follows:
EF: Enable/Disable the new internal operation
timing and logic refinements. EF=0: (Default)
Disable the new internal operation timing (the
timing is the same as in the COM20020 Rev. B);
EF=1: Enable the new internal operation timing.
During initialization, after the CPU writes the
Node ID, the COM20020 will write "D1"h data to
Address 000h and Node-ID to Address 001h of
its internal RAM within 6uS. These values are
read as part of the diagnostic test. If the D1 and
Node-ID initialization sequence cannot be read,
the initialization routine will report it as a device
diagnostic failure. These writes are controlled by
a micro-program which sometimes waits if the
line is active; SYNC is the micro-program
command that causes the wait. When the micro-
program waits, the initial RAM write does not
occur, which causes the diagnostic error. Thus
in this case, if the line is not idle, the initialization
sequence may not be written, which will be
reported as a device diagnostic failure.
However, the initialization sequence and
diagnostics of the COM20020 should be
independent of the network status. This is
accomplished through some additional logic to
decode the program counter, enabled by the
The EF bit controls the following timing/logic
refinements in the COM20020:
A) Extend Interrupt Disable Time
While the interrupt is active (nINTR pin=0), the
interrupt is disabled by writing the Clear Tx/Rx
interrupt and Clear Flag command and by
reading the Next-ID register. This minimum
disable time is changed by the Data Rate. For
example, it is 200 nS at 2.5 Mbps and 100 nS at
5 Mbps. The 100 nS width will be too short to for
the Interrupt to be seen.
Setting the EF bit will change the minimum
disable time to always be more than 200 nS
even if the Data Rate is 5 Mbps . This is done by
changing the clock which is supplied to the
Interrupt Disable logic. The frequency of this
clock is always less than 20MHz even if the data
rate is 5 Mbps.
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