XAUI v12.3 Product Guide
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PG053 April 6, 2016
Chapter 5:
Interfacing to the Core
Configuration and Status Interfaces
This section describes the interfaces available for dynamically setting the configuration and
obtaining the status of the XAUI core. There are two interfaces for configuration; depending
on the core customization, only one is available in a particular core instance. The interfaces
are:
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Configuration and Status Vectors
In addition, there are output ports on the core signaling alignment and synchronization
status. These ports are described in
MDIO Interface
The Management Data Input/Output (MDIO) interface is a simple, low-speed two-wire
interface for management of the XAUI core consisting of a clock signal and a bidirectional
data signal. It is defined in clause 45 of
IEEE Standard 802.3-2012
.
An MDIO bus in a system consists of a single Station Management (STA) master
management entity and several MDIO Managed Device (MMD) slave entities.
illustrates a typical system. All transactions are initiated by the Station Management Entity
(STA) entity. The XAUI core implements an MMD.
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Figure 5
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5:
A Typical MDIO-Managed System
MAC 1
MAC 2
STA
mdc
mdio
MMD
MMD
MMD
MMD
MMD
MMD
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