P R E L I M I N A R Y
AMD
1-408
Am79C960
In loopback mode, this bit deter-
mines if the transmitter appends
FCS or if the receiver checks the
FCS.
This bit was called DTCR in the
LANCE (Am7990).
Read/write accessible only when
STOP bit is set.
Loopback
Enable
PCnet-ISA controller to operate
in full duplex mode for test pur-
poses. When LOOP = “1”,
loopback is enabled. In combina-
tion with INTL and MENDECL,
various loopback modes are de-
fined as follows:
2
LOOP
allows
LOOP
INTL
MENDECL
Loopback Mode
0
X
X
Non-loopback
1
0
X
External Loopback
1
1
0
Internal Loopback Include
MENDEC
1
1
1
Internal Loopback Exclude
MENDEC
Read/write accessible only when
STOP bit is set. LOOP is cleared
by RESET.
Disable Transmit. If this bit is set,
the PCnet-ISA controller will not
access the Transmit Descriptor
Ring and, therefore, no transmis-
sions will occur. DTX = “0” will set
TXON bit (CSR0.4) after STRT
(CSR0.1) is asserted. DTX is de-
fined after the initialization block
is read.
Read/write accessible only when
STOP bit is set.
Disable Receiver. If this bit is set,
the PCnet-ISA controller will not
access the Receive Descriptor
Ring and, therefore, all receive
frame data are ignored. DRX =
“0” will set RXON bit (CSR0.5) af-
ter STRT (CSR0.1) is asserted.
DRX is defined after the initializa-
tion block is read.
Read/write accessible only when
STOP bit is set.
1
DTX
0
DRX
CSR16: Initialization Block Address Lower
Bit
Name
Description
15-0
IADR
Lower 16 bits of the address of
the Initialization Block. Bit loca-
tion 0 must be zero. This register
is an alias of CSR1. Whenever
this register is written, CSR1 is
updated with CSR16’s contents.
Read/Write
accessible
when the STOP bit in CSR0 is
set. Unaffected by RESET.
only
CSR17: Initialization Block Address Upper
Bit
Name
Description
15-8
RES
Reserved locations. Written as
zero and read as undefined.
Upper 8 bits of the address of the
Initialization Block. Bit locations
15-8 must be written with zeros.
This register is an alias of CSR2.
Whenever this register is written,
CSR2 is updated with CSR17’s
contents.
Read/Write
accessible
when the STOP bit in CSR0 is
set. Unaffected by RESET.
7-0
IADR
only
CSR18-19: Current Receive Buffer Address
Bit
Name
Description
31-24
RES
Reserved locations. Written as
zero and read as undefined.
Contains the current receive
buffer address to which the
PCnet-ISA controller will store in-
coming frame data.
Read/write accessible only when
STOP bit is set.
23-0
CRBA
CSR20-21: Current Transmit Buffer Address
Bit
Name
Description
31-24
RES
Reserved locations. Written as
zero and read as undefined.
Contains the current transmit
buffer address from which the
PCnet-ISA controller is transmit-
ting.
Read/write accessible only when
STOP bit is set.
23-0
CXBA
CSR22-23: Next Receive Buffer Address
Bit
Name
Description
31-24
RES
Reserved locations. Written as
zero and read as undefined.
Contains the next receive buffer
address to which the PCnet-ISA
23-0
NRBA