RELEASED

PM3386

DATASHEET

PMC-1991129

ISSUE 7

DUAL GIGABIT ETHERNET CONTROLLER

PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL TO PMC-SIERRA, INC., AND FOR ITS CUSTOMERS’ INTERNAL USE

13.8.1 ENABLING AND DISABLING INGRESS DATA FLOW... 241

13.8.2 ENABLING AND DISABLING EGRESS DATA FLOW.... 241

13.9 REGISTER ACCESS PROCEDURES ...................................... 241

13.9.1 PL3IP REGISTER ACCESS PROCEDURE ................... 242

13.9.2 PL3EP REGISTER ACCESS PROCEDURE.................. 242

13.9.3 EGMAC REGISTER ACCESS PROCEDURE................ 242

13.10 FRAME DATA AND BYTE FORMAT ......................................... 243

13.11 SERDES LOOPBACK............................................................... 244

13.12 GMII LOOPBACK...................................................................... 244

13.13 IFG MANIPULATION................................................................. 245

13.14 FRAME LENGTH SUPPORT .................................................... 245

13.15 TRANSMIT PADDING AND CRC GENERATION ..................... 246

13.16 MII OPERATIONS ..................................................................... 248

13.16.1 MII READ ACCESS ................................................... 248

13.16.2 MII WRITE ACCESS ................................................. 248

13.17 AUTO-NEGOTIATION............................................................... 248

13.17.1 MONITORING AUTO-NEGOTIATION ....................... 250

13.17.2 MODIFYING AUTO-NEGOTIATION .......................... 250

13.17.3 CONTROL OF AUTO-NEGOTIATION ....................... 250

13.18 TX_ER ASSERTION CRITERIA................................................ 250

13.19 FRAME FILTERING .................................................................. 251

13.19.1 GROUP MULTICAST ADDRESS FILTERING ........... 251

13.19.2 EXACT MATCH FILTER PROGRAM OPTIONS........ 252

13.19.3 EXACT MATCH FILTER OPERATION ...................... 253