
DS2154
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11.0 ADDITIONAL (Sa) AND
INTERNATIONAL (Si) BIT OPERATION
The DS2154 provides for access to both the Sa and the
Si bits via three different methods. The first is via a hard-
ware scheme using the RLINK/RLCLK and TLINK/
TLCLK pins. The first method is discussed in
Section 11.1. The second involves using the internal
RAF/RNAF and TAF/TNAF registers and is discussed
in Section 11.2 The third method which is covered in
Section 11.3 involves an expanded version of the
second method and is one of the features added to the
DS2154 from the original DS2153 definition.
11.1 HARDWARE SCHEME
On the receive side, all of the received data is reported
at the RLINK pin. Via RCR2, the user can control the
RLCLK pin to pulse during any combination of Sa bits.
This allows the user to create a clock that can be used to
capture the needed Sa bits. If RSYNC is programmed
to output a frame boundary, it will identify the Si bits. See
Section 13 for detailed timing.
On the transmit side, the individual Sa bits can be either
sourced from the internal TNAF register (see
Section 11.2 for details) or from the external TLINK pin.
Via TCR2, the DS2154 can be programmed to source
any combination of the additional bits from the TLINK
pin. If the user wishes to pass the Sa bits through the
DS2154 without them being altered, then the device
should be set up to source all five Sa bits via the TLINK
pin and the TLINK pin should be tied to the TSER pin. Si
bits can be inserted through the TSER pin via the clear-
ing of the TCR1.3 bit. Please see the timing diagrams
and the transmit data flow diagram in Section 13 for
examples.
11.2 INTERNAL REGISTER SCHEME
BASED ON DOUBLE–FRAME
On the receive side, the RAF and RNAF registers will
always report the data as it received in the Additional
and International bit locations. The RAF and RNAF reg-
isters are updated with the setting of the Receive Align
Frame bit in Status Register 2 (SR2.6). The host can
use the SR2.6 bit to know when to read the RAF and
RNAF registers. It has 250 us to retrieve the data before
it is lost.
On the transmit side, data is sampled from the TAF and
TNAF registers with the setting of the Transmit Align
Frame bit in Status Register 2 (SR2.3). The host can
use the SR2.3 bit to know when to update the TAF and
TNAF registers. It has 250 us to update the data or else
the old data will be retransmitted. Data in the Si bit posi-
tion will be overwritten if either the DS2154 is pro-
grammed: (1) to source the Si bits from the TSER pin,
(2) in the CRC4 mode, or (3) have automatic E–bit inser-
tion enabled. Data in the Sa bit position will be overwrit-
ten if any of the TCR2.3 to TCR2.7 bits are set to one
(please see Section 11.1 for details). Please see the
register descriptions for TCR1 and TCR2 and the Trans-
mit Data Flow diagram in Section 13 for more details.
RAF: RECEIVE ALIGN FRAME REGISTER (Address=2F Hex)
(MSB)
(LSB)
Si
0
0
1
1
0
1
1
SYMBOL
POSITION
NAME AND DESCRIPTION
Si
RAF.7
International Bit.
0
RAF.6
Frame Alignment Signal Bit.
0
RAF.5
Frame Alignment Signal Bit.
1
RAF.4
Frame Alignment Signal Bit.
1
RAF.3
Frame Alignment Signal Bit.
0
RAF.2
Frame Alignment Signal Bit.
1
RAF.1
Frame Alignment Signal Bit.
1
RAF.0
Frame Alignment Signal Bit.