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2.12 Packet Transmit Operation
The transmit DMA is an eight channel interface. Priority between the eight queues may be either fixed or
round-robin as selected by the TXPTYPE bit in the MAC control register (MACCONTROL). If the priority
type is fixed, then channel 7 has the highest priority and channel 0 has the lowest priority. Round-robin
priority proceeds from channel 0 to channel 7.
2.12.1 Transmit DMA Host Configuration
To configure the transmit DMA for operation the host must perform:
• Write the MAC source address low bytes register (MACSRCADDRLO) and the MAC source address
high bytes register (MACSRCADDRHI) (used for pause frames on transmit).
• Initialize the transmit channel n DMA head descriptor pointer registers (TXnHDP) to 0.
• Enable the desired transmit interrupts using the transmit interrupt mask set register (TXINTMASKSET)
and the transmit interrupt mask clear register (TXINTMASKCLEAR).
• Set the appropriate configuration bits in the MAC control register (MACCONTROL).
• Setup the transmit channel(s) buffer descriptors in host memory.
• Enable the transmit DMA controller by setting the TXEN bit in the transmit control register
(TXCONTROL).
• Write the appropriate TXnHDP with the pointer to the first descriptor to start transmit operations.
2.12.2 Transmit Channel Teardown
The host commands a transmit channel teardown by writing the channel number to the transmit teardown
register (TXTEARDOWN). When a teardown command is issued to an enabled transmit channel, the
following occurs:
• Any frame currently in transmission completes normally.
• The TDOWNCMPLT flag is set in the next SOP buffer descriptor in the chain, if there is one.
• The channel head descriptor pointer is cleared to 0.
• A transmit interrupt is issued to inform the host of the channel teardown.
• The corresponding transmit channel n completion pointer register (TXnCP) contains the value
FFFF FFFCh.
• The host should acknowledge a teardown interrupt with an FFFF FFFCh acknowledge value.
Channel teardown may be commanded on any channel at any time. The host is informed of the teardown
completion by the set teardown complete (TDOWNCMPLT) buffer descriptor bit. The EMAC does not
clear any channel enables due to a teardown command. A teardown command to an inactive channel
issues an interrupt that software should acknowledge with an FFFF FFFCh acknowledge value to TXnCP
(note that there is no buffer descriptor in this case). Software may read the interrupt acknowledge location
(TXnCP) to determine if the interrupt was due to a commanded teardown. The read value is FFFF FFFCh,
if the interrupt was due to a teardown command.
2.13 Receive and Transmit Latency
The transmit FIFO contains twenty-four 64-byte cells and the receive FIFO contains sixty-eight 64-byte
cells. The EMAC begins transmission of a packet on the wire after TXCELLTHRESH cells (configurable
through the FIFO control register, FIFOCONTROL) or a complete packet are available in the FIFO.
Transmit underrun cannot occur for packet sizes of TXCELLTHRESH × 64 bytes (or less). For larger
packet sizes, transmit underrun can occur if the memory latency is greater than the time required to
transmit a 64-byte cell on the wire; this is 0.512 ms in 1 Gbit mode, 5.12 ms in 100 Mbps mode, and
51.2 ms in 10 Mbps mode. The memory latency time includes all buffer descriptor reads for the entire cell
data. The EMAC transmit FIFO uses 24 cells; thus, underrun cannot happen for a normal size packet (less
than 1536 packet bytes). Cell transmission can be configured to start only after an entire packet is
contained in the FIFO; for a maximum-size packet, set the TXCELLTHRESH field to the maximum
possible value of 24.
49 SPRUFI5B – March 2009 – Revised December 2010 Ethernet Media Access Controller (EMAC)/Management Data Input/Output
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