MSC8144E Reference Manual, Rev. 3
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Freescale
Semiconductor
QUICC Engine™ Subsystem
subsystem RAM. This flexible FIFO structure enables the QUICC Engine subsystem to sustain
wire speed frame or cell bursts by allocating larger FIFO memory when required. The size of the
virtual FIFO is user-programmable. The actual size that is needed depends on a number of
factors, especially the following:
Maximum packet size
Protocols running on the UCC
Memory bus latency
18.7
Ethernet Controllers
The Ethernet interface is a widely-used local area network (LAN) that is based on the
carrier-sense, multiple access, collision detect (CSMA/CD) approach. The IEEE 802.3 standard
was developed to codify the requirements of such a system to insure interoperability between
devices operating on the LAN. Because Ethernet and the IEEE protocols are similar and can
coexist on the same LAN, this manual uses the generic term Ethernet unless otherwise noted. The
MSC8144E uses two UCC Gigabit Ethernet Controllers (UECs) coordinated through the QUICC
Engine subsystem. Each controller supports several standard MAC-PHY interfaces to connect to
an external Ethernet transceiver. Supported interfaces include:
10/100 Mbps MII interface (Ethernet 1 only).
1000 Mbps RGMII interface
10/100 Mbps RMII interface
10/100 Mbps SMII interface
1000 Mbps SGMII interface.
The media-independent interface (MII) was developed first and used four data lines to transmit
information by nibbles (half-bytes); this is the interface defined in the IEEE 802.3 standard. To
reduce the number of interconnect signals, the RMII, or reduced mode was developed; it transfers
data using two data lines and was standardized by the RMII consortium. To further reduce the
required signals, the SMII, or serial mode was developed. All three modes use the same frame
structure to transfer data, but because of the reduced number of transmission line, the transfer
clock frequency must be increased to maintain the same bit transfer rate. RMII requires a clock
twice as fast as the MII clock and SMII requires a clock four times as fast as the MII clock to
transfer data at the same rate. All three modes also support the standard
MDC
and
MDIO
signals to
provide network statistics information.
Summary of Contents for MSC8144E
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