
10.0 Internal Registers
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10.3 Register Descriptions
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TRANSMIT CONFIGURATION REGISTER (TCR)
0DH (WRITE)
The transmit configuration establishes the actions of the transmitter section of the NIC during transmission of a packet on the
network.
LB1 and LB0 which select loopback mode power up as 0.
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
D
D
D
OFST
ATD
LB1
LB0
CRC
Bit
Symbol
Description
D0
CRC
INHIBIT CRC
0: CRC appended by transmitter
1: CRC inhibited by transmitter
; In loopback mode CRC can be enabled or disabled to test the CRC logic.
D1, D2
LB0, LB1
ENCODED LOOPBACK CONTROL:
These encoded configuration bits set the type of loopback
that is to be performed. Note that loopback in mode 2 sets the LPBK pin high, this places the SNI
in loopback mode and that D3 of the DCR must be set to zero for loopback operation.
LB1
LB0
Mode 0
0
0
Normal Operation (LPBK
e
0)
Mode 1
0
1
Internal Loopback (LPBK
e
0)
Mode 2
1
0
External Loopback (LPBK
e
1)
Mode 3
1
1
External Loopback (LPBK
e
0)
D3
ATD
AUTO TRANSMIT DISABLE:
This bit allows another station to disable the NIC’s transmitter by
transmission of a particular multicast packet. The transmitter can be re-enabled by resetting this
bit or by reception of a second particular multicast packet.
0: Normal Operation
1: Reception of multicast address hashing to bit 62 disables transmitter, reception of multicast
address hashing to bit 63 enables transmitter.
D4
OFST
COLLISION OFFSET ENABLE:
This bit modifies the backoff algorithm to allow prioritization of
nodes.
0: Backoff Logic implements normal algorithm.
1: Forces Backoff algorithm modification to 0 to 2
min(3
a
n,10)
slot times for first three collisions,
then follows standard backoff. (For first three collisions station has higher average backoff delay
making a low priority mode.)
D5
reserved
reserved
D6
reserved
reserved
D7
reserved
reserved
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