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Sundance Spas ST201 User Manual

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Sundance Technology

ST201

PRELIMINARY draft 2

TXSTARTTHRESH

Class....................I/O Registers, FIFO Control

Base Address ......IoBaseAddress register value

Address Offset .....0x3c

Access Mode .......Read/Write

Width ...................16 bits

The value in TxStartThresh is used to control when frames are transmitted. Transmission of a frame
begins when the number of bytes for the frame transferred into the TxFIFO is greater than the value in
TxStartThresh

.

If TxStartThresh is set too low, the TxFIFO may experience under run due to the DMA data

transfers not able to keep up with the wire data rate. Host systems should use under run indications as a
hint to increase the TxStartThresh value. This register resets to 1ffch, which disables the threshold mecha-
nism.

BIT

BIT NAME

BIT DESCRIPTION

12..0

TxStartThresh

The number of bytes which must be present in the TxFIFO before
frame transmission begins. Values will be interpreted using a resolu-
tion of 4 bytes (i.e. 0x00, 0x04, 0x08, 0x0c, 0x0f, etc.)

15..13

Unused

These bits are ignored.