Maxim Integrated 78Q8430 Software Driver - Manual (Page 6)

78Q8430 Software Driver Development Guidelines UG_8430_004
2 List of Features
Table 1 lists the 78Q8430 hardware supported features described in this document. A brief description of
the feature from the software driver point of view is also included.
Table 1: List of 78Q8430 Features
Feature Description Page
MAC Operations 8
Basic Transmit Accept a frame and cause it to be transmitted by the 78Q8430. 8
Basic Receive Receives a frame from the 78Q8430 and deliver it to the host. 9
Jabber Protection Enable/disable hardware jabber protection for receive. 9
Local PAUSE Enable, disable, and start the automatic local pause counter. 11
HNR Frame
Transmission - Specify the HNR frame to transmit when the HNR timer expires.
- Set the HNR Timer for automatic HNR transmission.
- Request that an HNR frame transmit immediately irrespective of the
HNR timer.
12
12
13
Rx Interrupt Delay
Timer Set the Rx interrupt delay timer. 13
Host Drop Request that next frame in the receive QUE to be dropped. 13
Strip CRC Enable hardware removal of the Receive CRC. 15
Strip Padding Enable/disable the automatic Receive strip padding feature. 15
Packet Classification 16
CAM Configuration 16
ARC (Address
Recognition) - Wildcard address filters.
- Enable/disable promiscuous mode.
- Unicast address filters.
- Multicast address filters.
- Negative address filters. 16
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17
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21
OnNow Packets - Enable/disable Wake-on-LAN (WOL) for OnNow packet.
- Set the OnNow pattern. 21
21
Magic Packets - Enable/disable WOL for Magic Packet ™.
- Set Magic Packet MAC address.
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23
Classification
Interrupt Specify an action to take when a classification interrupt is received. 24
Media Controller Offload Features 25
DMA - Use slave DMA Read for receive.
- Use Slave DMA Write for transmit. 25
25
Jumbo Frames
(up to 64 kB) - Receive jumbo frames.
- Transmit jumbo frames. 26
27
Watermarking - Set the headroom watermark level.
- Set the transmit PAUSE watermark level.
- Watermark interrupt: Set the level and handle the interrupt. 28
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Transfer Frame - Transmit ARP response using Snoop access.
- Transmit ICMP echo reply using Snoop access. 30
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