
UM10237_2
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UM10237
Chapter 11: LPC24XX Ethernet
4.
Features
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Ethernet standards support:
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Supports 10 or 100 Mbps PHY devices including 10 Base-T, 100 Base-TX,
100 Base-FX, and 100 Base-T4.
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Fully compliant with IEEE standard 802.3.
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Fully compliant with 802.3x Full Duplex Flow Control and Half Duplex back
pressure.
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Flexible transmit and receive frame options.
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VLAN frame support.
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Memory management:
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Independent transmit and receive buffers memory mapped to shared SRAM.
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DMA managers with scatter/gather DMA and arrays of frame descriptors.
Table 181. Ethernet acronyms, abbreviations, and definitions
Acronym or
Abbreviation
Definition
AHB
Advanced High-performance bus
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Check
DMA
Direct Memory Access
Double-word
64 bit entity
FCS
Frame Check Sequence (CRC)
Fragment
A (part of an) Ethernet frame; one or multiple fragments can add up to a single
Ethernet frame.
Frame
An Ethernet frame consists of destination address, source address, length
type field, payload and frame check sequence.
Half-word
16 bit entity
LAN
Local Area Network
MAC
Media Access Control sublayer
MII
Media Independent Interface
MIIM
MII management
Octet
An 8 bit data entity, used in lieu of "byte" by IEEE 802.3
Packet
A frame that is transported across Ethernet; a packet consists of a preamble,
a start of frame delimiter and an Ethernet frame.
PHY
Ethernet Physical Layer
RMII
Reduced MII
Rx
Receive
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol. The most common
high-level protocol used with Ethernet.
Tx
Transmit
VLAN
Virtual LAN
WoL
Wake-up on LAN
Word
32 bit entity