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Two Port 10/100 Managed Ethernet Switch with 16-Bit Non-PCI CPU Interface
Datasheet
SMSC LAN9311/LAN9311i 121 Revision 1.4 (08-19-08)
DATASHEET
Note: By convention, the right nibble of the left most byte of the Ethernet address (in this example,
the 2 of the 12h) is the most significant nibble and is transmitted/received first.
For more information on the EEPROM and EEPROM Loader, refer to Section 10.2, "I2C/Microwire
Master EEPROM Controller," on page 138.
9.7 FIFOs
The LAN9311/LAN9311i contains four host-accessible FIFOs (TX Status, RX Status, TX Data, and RX
Data) and two internal inaccessible Host MAC TX/RX MIL FIFO’s (TX MIL FIFO, RX MIL FIFO).
9.7.1 TX/RX FIFOs
The TX/RX Data and Status FIFOs store the incoming and outgoing address and data information,
acting as a conduit between the host bus interface (HBI) and the Host MAC. The sizes of these FIFOs
are configurable via the Hardware Configuration Register (HW_CFG) register to the ranges described
in Table 9.8. Refer to Section 9.7.3, "FIFO Memory Allocation Configuration" for additional information.
The the RX and TX FIFOs related register definitions can be found in section Section 14.2.2, "Host
MAC & FIFO’s".
The TX and RX Data FIFOs have the base address of 00h and 20h respectively. However, each FIFO
is also accessible at seven additional contiguous memory locations, as can be seen in Figure 14.1.
The Host may access the TX or RX Data FIFOs at any of these alias port locations, as they all function
identically and contain the same data. This alias port addressing is implemented to allow hosts to burst
through sequential addresses.
The TX and RX Status FIFOs can each be read from two register locations; the Status FIFO Port, and
the Status FIFO PEEK. The TX and RX Status FIFO Ports (48h and 40h respectively) will perform a
destructive read, popping the data from the TX or RX Status FIFO. The TX and RX Status FIFO PEEK
register locations (4Ch and 44h respectively) allow a non-destructive read of the top (oldest) location
of the FIFOs.
Proper use of the The TX/RX Data and Status FIFOs, including the correct data formatting is described
in detail in Section 9.8, "TX Data Path Operation," on page 123 and Section 9.9, "RX Data Path
Operation," on page 133.
9.7.2 MIL FIFOs
The MAC Interface Layer (MIL), within the Host MAC, contains a 2KB transmit and a 128 Byte receive
FIFO which are separate from the TX and RX FIFOs. These MIL FIFOs are not directly accessible
from the HBI. The differentiation between the TX/RX FIFOs and the TX/RX MIL FIFOs is that once the
transmit or receive packets are in the MIL FIFOs, the host no longer can control or access the TX or
RX data. The MIL FIFOs are essentially the working buffers of the Host MAC logic. In the case of
reception, the data must be moved into the RX FIFOs before the host can access the data. For TX
Figure 9.2 Example EEPROM MAC Address Setup
12h
07
34h
815
56h
1623
78h
2431
9AhBChxxxx
A5h
12h
34h
56h
78h
9Ah
BCh
00h
01h
02h
03h
04h
05h
06h
EEPROM
HMAC_ADDRH / SWITCH_MAC_ADDRH
0781516232431
HMAC_ADDRL / SWITCH_MAC_ADDRL