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Preface
Read This First
About This Manual
The
ThunderLAN Programmer’s Guide
assists you in using the following
implementations of ThunderLAN networking hardware:
TNETE100A Ethernet controller
TNETE110A Ethernet controller
TNETE211 100 VG-AnyLAN physical media interface (PMI)
How to Use This Manual
The goal of this book is to assist you in the development of drivers for the
ThunderLAN controllers. This document contains the following chapters:
Chapter 1, ThunderLAN Overview, describes some Texas
Instruments-specific hardware features. These include the enhanced
media independent interface (MII), which passes interrupts from an
attached physical interface (PHY) to the host.
Chapter 2, ThunderLAN Registers, shows how to access the various
ThunderLAN registers and how to use these registers to access external
devices attached to ThunderLAN.
Chapter 3, Initializing and Resetting, discusses how to initialize and reset
the controller and the attached PHYs.
Chapter 4, Interrupt Handling, describes what happens when interrupts
occur and how to correct failure conditions.
Chapter 5, List Structures, describes how to pass data to ThunderLAN
using a system of linked list structures.
Chapter 6, Transmitting and Receiving Frames, explains the format and
procedure for transmitting and receiving, as well as the linked list structure
required.
Chapter 7, Physical Interface, discusses the features of ThunderLAN
which support IEEE 802.3- and 802.12-compliant devices.