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KSZ8841-PMQL and KSZ8842-PMQL 
Evaluation Board User’s Guide

 

 

 
 
 

                                  Revision 1.1/ May 2006 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                           
 

 

 
 

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Summary of Contents for KSZ8841-PMQL

Page 1: ...serves the right to change circuitry and specifications at any time without notification to the customer Micrel Products are not designed or authorized for use as components in life support appliances...

Page 2: ...L Evaluation Board User s Guide Micrel Inc May 2006 Rev 1 1 2 27 Revision History Revision Date Summary of Changes 1 0 Sep 2005 Initial Release 1 1 May 2006 Add evaluation on PC and 100 rate transfer...

Page 3: ...M Content for KSZ8842 PMQL Eval Board 14 4 7 Clock Scheme 14 5 External Interface 15 5 1 Ethernet Ports 15 5 1 1 10 100 Base T TX Ethernet Ports 15 5 1 2 PCI Interface 15 6 Software Support 16 6 1 Lin...

Page 4: ...ure 6 Window Prompts to Install New Hardware Driver 17 Figure 7 Window prompts to Locate Driver Files 17 Figure 8 Window Prompts Driver Files Search Results 18 Figure 9 Window Display KS884x PCI Ether...

Page 5: ...ture is an industry first which allows the devices to determine the length of the cable as well as detecting common cabling plant problems such as open and short circuits Diagnosis and elimination of...

Page 6: ...el Model for simulation 7 KSZ8841 PMQL Datasheet PDF Format 8 KSZ8842 PMQL Datasheet PDF Format 9 KSZ884X PMQL Evaluation Board VxWorks 5 5 1 Drivers Diver for VxWorks 10 KSZ884X PMQL Evaluation Board...

Page 7: ...as a single port managed MAC PHY controller by using the KSZ8841 PMQL device The board can be configured as a two port managed switch or repeater by using the KSZ8842 PMQL device The KSZ88XX PMQL Eva...

Page 8: ...Figure 2 KSZ8842 PMQL Eval Board 4 3 Evaluation Board Block Diagram The block diagram of the KSZ884X PMQL Eval board is shown in the Figure 3 Figure 3 KSZ884X PMQL Eval Board Block Diagram Port 2 RJ4...

Page 9: ...Eval board when powered up with the jumper settings in Table 2 Table 2 KSZ8841 PMQL Eval Board Jumper Settings Jumper Setting Comment JP1 Close jumper Port 1 is TX mode for copper JP2 Close jumper Cl...

Page 10: ...uation board is set to the KSZ8842 PMQL Eval board when powered up with the jumper settings in Table 3 Table 3 KSZ8842 PMQL Eval Board Jumper Settings Jumper Setting Comment JP1 Close jumper Port 1 is...

Page 11: ...2 status LED indicators are programmable via the registers to three different modes All LED mode definitions for mode 0 mode 1 and mode 2 are described in Table 5 below The user can program register C...

Page 12: ...whether or not the KSZ8841 PMQL implements a list of New capabilities When set this bit indicates the presence of New capabilities When reset New capabilities are not implemented 14 NO_SRST No Soft R...

Page 13: ...ter 8 6 Reserved 5 DSI Device Specific Initialization This bit indicates whether special initialization of this function is required beyond the standard PCI configuration header before the generic cla...

Page 14: ...shown in Table 8 Table 8 EEPROM Format and Content WORD 15 8 7 0 0H Reserved 1H Host MAC Address Byte 2 Host MAC Address Byte 1 2H Host MAC Address Byte 4 Host MAC Address Byte 3 3H Host MAC Address B...

Page 15: ...generator or analyzer via standard RJ45 connectors using CAT 5 cables Each port can be used as either an uplink to downlink The ports support HP auto MDI MDIX so there is not need for cross over cable...

Page 16: ...B counter etc When the Ethernet port is connected to a PC the user can use network commands to ping the IP address of the board for TCP IP layer evaluation by this platform 6 2 VxWorks Linux Driver Su...

Page 17: ...al board and KSZ8842 PMQL Eval board 7 1 2 Installation the Evaluation Card First of all open the case of the PC and check the PCI slot to see it supports 5V or 3 3V power if the PCI slot support 5V t...

Page 18: ...SZ884X PCI Windows driver files into the floppy drive and check the Floppy disk drives optional or specify a location which copied the Window drives into the location and click Next button the Windows...

Page 19: ...sit the Windows Update Web Site and prompts to continue the installation click Yes button on the Window Window display has finished installing as Figure 10 Figure 10 Prompts the Window Driver has fini...

Page 20: ...he KSZ8842 PMQL Eval board attached for 3 3V PCI slot power as shown in Figure 11 Please note that when using the KS8695P platform the KSZ88XX PMQL support driver must first be loaded into the flash m...

Page 21: ...s to set the speed at 38400 and flow control to be set to Hardware for normal display in either the Hyper Terminal or other tools Please perform the following steps to set up the Hyper Terminal On the...

Page 22: ...Z8841PMQL or KSZ8842PMQL to one port of the Smartbit tester and send packet with 100 utilization from Smartbit to the port of the KSZ884x PMQL The packets will be received by CPU KS8695P contains Arm...

Page 23: ...KSZ884x PMQL Evaluation Board User s Guide Micrel Inc May 2006 Rev 1 1 23 27 Figure 15 Transfer rate at 64byte packet size Figure 16 Transfer rate at 1514byte packet size...

Page 24: ...Driver Software Provided Commands By typing hwhelp at the prompt symbol it will display all of the software driver provided commands in the Hyper Terminal Window With the exception of the PCI configu...

Page 25: ...address is 192 168 1 2 in the Evaluation Board For the PC user need to set the IP address to 192 168 1 X X don t care and the Subnet mask to 255 255 255 0 see the Figure 19 To change the IP address o...

Page 26: ...address of the evaluation board in Network command test mode Due to the default value of IP address is 192 168 1 2 in the Evaluation Board You can use the PING command from your PC to test whether th...

Page 27: ...KSZ884x PMQL Evaluation Board User s Guide Micrel Inc May 2006 Rev 1 1 27 27 Figure 20 Ping IP Address of the evaluation board...

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