TLK111_14 Datasheet, PDF (22/110 Pages) Texas Instruments – PHYTER® Industrial Temperature 10/100Mbs Ethernet Physical Layer Transceiver

TLK111
SLLSEF8B – AUGUST 2013 – REVISED JANUARY 2014
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4.2 Reduced Media Independent Interface (RMII)
TLK111 incorporates the Reduced Media Independent Interface (RMII) as specified in the RMII
specification (rev1.2) from the RMII consortium. The purpose of this interface is to provide a low cost
alternative to the IEEE 802.3u MII as specified in Clause 22. Architecturally, the RMII specification
provides an additional reconciliation layer on either side of the MII, but can be implemented in the absence
of an MII.
The RMII specification has the following characteristics:
• Supports 10Mbs and 100Mbs data rates
• Single clock reference sourced from the MAC to PHY (or from an external source)
• Provides independent 2 bit wide (di-bit) transmit and receive data paths
• Uses CMOS signal levels, the same levels as the MII interface
In this mode, data transfers two bits at a time using the 50MHz RMII reference clock for both transmit and
receive. RMII mode uses the following pins:
Signal
Pin
XI (RMII reference clock is 50MHz)
34
TXD_0
3
TXD_1
4
TX_EN
2
CRS_DV
40
RX_ER
41
RXD_0
43
RXD_1
44
Data on TXD [1:0] are latched at the PHY with reference to the reference-clock edges on the XI pin. Data
on RXD [1:0] are latched at the MAC with reference to the same reference clock edges on the XI pin. The
RMII operates at the same speed (50MHz) in both 10B-T and 100B-TX. In 10B-T the data is 10 times
slower than the reference clock, so transmit data is sampled every 10 clocks. Likewise, receive data is
generated on every 10th clock so that an attached MAC device can sample the data every 10 clocks.
In addition, RMII mode supplies an RX_DV signal which allows a simpler method of recovering receive
data without the need to separate RX_DV from the CRS_DV indication. RX_ER is also supported even
though not required by RMII spec (The TLK111 supports optional use of RX_ER and RX_DV in RMII as
an extra feature). RMII mode requires a 50MHz oscillator connected to the device XI pin.
The TLK111 supports a special mode called “RMII receive clock” mode. This mode, which is not part of
the RMII specification, allows synchronization of the MAC-PHY RX interface. In this mode, the PHY
generates a recovered 50MHz clock through the RX_CLK pin and synchronizes the RXD[1:0], CRS_DV,
RX_DV and RX_ER signals to this clock. Setting register 0x000A bit [0] is required to activate this mode.
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