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Ethernet (ETH): media access control (MAC) with DMA controller
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the frame is dropped and the Rx Status Word is immediately updated (with zero frame
length, CRC error and Runt Error bits set), indicating the filter fail. In Ethernet power down
mode, all received frames are dropped, and are not forwarded to the application.
Receive flow control
The MAC detects the receiving Pause frame and pauses the frame transmission for the
delay specified within the received Pause frame (only in Full-duplex mode). The Pause
frame detection function can be enabled or disabled with the RFCE bit in ETH_MACFCR.
Once receive flow control has been enabled, the received frame destination address begins
to be monitored for any match with the multicast address of the control frame
(0x0180 C200 0001). If a match is detected (the destination address of the received frame
matches the reserved control frame destination address), the MAC then decides whether or
not to transfer the received control frame to the application, based on the level of the PCF
bit in ETH_MACFFR.
The MAC also decodes the type, opcode, and Pause Timer fields of the receiving control
frame. If the byte count of the status indicates 64 bytes, and if there is no CRC error, the
MAC transmitter pauses the transmission of any data frame for the duration of the decoded
Pause time value, multiplied by the slot time (64 byte times for both 10/100 Mbit/s modes).
Meanwhile, if another Pause frame is detected with a zero Pause time value, the MAC
resets the Pause time and manages this new pause request.
If the received control frame matches neither the type field (0x8808), the opcode (0x00001),
nor the byte length (64 bytes), or if there is a CRC error, the MAC does not generate a
Pause.
In the case of a pause frame with a multicast destination address, the MAC filters the frame
based on the address match.
For a pause frame with a unicast destination address, the MAC filtering depends on whether
the DA matched the contents of the MAC address 0 register and whether the UPDF bit in
ETH_MACFCR is set (detecting a pause frame even with a unicast destination address).
The PCF register bits (bits [7:6] in ETH_MACFFR) control filtering for control frames in
addition to address filtering.
Receive operation multiframe handling
Since the status is available immediately following the data, the FIFO is capable of storing
any number of frames into it, as long as it is not full.
Error handling
If the Rx FIFO is full before it receives the EOF data from the MAC, an overflow is declared
and the whole frame is dropped, and the overflow counter in the (ETH_DMAMFBOCR
register) is incremented. The status indicates a partial frame due to overflow. The Rx FIFO
can filter error and undersized frames, if enabled (using the FEF and FUGF bits in
ETH_DMAOMR).
If the Receive FIFO is configured to operate in Store-and-forward mode, all error frames can
be filtered and dropped.
In Cut-through mode, if a frame's status and length are available when that frame's SOF is
read from the Rx FIFO, then the complete erroneous frame can be dropped. The DMA can
flush the error frame being read from the FIFO, by enabling the receive frame flash bit. The
data transfer to the application (DMA) is then stopped and the rest of the frame is internally
read and dropped. The next frame transfer can then be started, if available.
