
LU3X31FT Single-Port 3 V Preliminary Data Sheet
10/100 Ethernet Transceiver TX/FX March 2001
12 Lucent Technologies Inc.
Functional Description (continued)
MII Isolate Mode. The LU3X31FT implements an MII
isolate mode that is controlled by bit 10 of the control
register (register 0h). The LU3X31FT will set this bit to
one if the PHY address is set to 00000 upon powerup/
hardware reset. Otherwise, the LU3X31FT will initialize
this bit to 0. Setting the bit to 1 after powerup/reset will
also put the LU3X31FT into MII isolate mode.
The isolate mode can also be activated by setting the
PHY address (bits 15 through 11 of register 19h) to 0
through the serial management interface, although the
content of the isolate register is not affected by the
modification of PHY address.
The LU3X31FT does not respond to packet data
present at TXD[3:0], TXEN, and TXER inputs and pre-
sents a high impedance on the TXCLK, RXCLK, RXDV,
RXER, RXD[3:0], COL, and CRS outputs. The
LU3X31FT will continue to respond to all management
transactions.
Serial Management Interface
The serial management interface (SMI) is the part of
the MII that is used to control and monitor status of the
LU3X31FT. This mechanism corresponds to the MII
specification for 100Base-X (Clause 22) and supports
registers 0 through 6. Additional vendor-specific regis-
ters are implemented within the range of 16 to 31. All
the registers are described in MII Registers on page23
of this data sheet.
Management Register Access. The SMI consists of
two pins, management data clock (MDC) and manage-
ment data input/output (MDIO). The LU3X31FT is
designed to support an MDC frequency ranging up to
the
IEEE
specification of 2.5 MHz. The MDIO line is bi-
directional and may be shared by up to 32 devices.
The MDIO pin requires a 1.5kΩ pull-up resistor which,
during IDLE and turnaround periods, will pull MDIO to a
logic 1 state. Each MII management data frame is
64bits long. The first 32 bits are preamble consisting of
32 contiguous logic 1 bits on MDIO and 32 correspond-
ing cycles on MDC. Following preamble is the start-of-
frame field indicated by a <01> pattern. The next field
signals the operation code (OP): <10> indicates READ
from MII management register operation, and <01>
indicates WRITE to MII management register opera-
tion. The next two fields are PHY device address and
MII management register address. Both of them are
5bits wide, and the most significant bit is transferred
first.
During READ operation, a 2-bit turnaround (TA) time
spacing between register address field and data field is
provided for the MDIO to avoid contention. Following
the turnaround time, a 16-bit data stream is read from
or written into the MII management registers of the
LU3X31FT.
The LU3X31FT supports a preamble suppression
mode as indicated by a 1 in bit 6 of the basic mode sta-
tus register (BMSR, address 01h). If the station man-
agement entity (i.e., MAC or other management
controller) determines that all PHYs in the system sup-
port preamble suppression by returning a 1 in this bit,
then the station management entity need not generate
preamble for each management transaction. The
LU3X31FT requires a single initialization sequence of
32 bits of preamble following powerup/hardware reset.
This requirement is generally met by the mandatory
pull-up resistor on MDIO or the management access
made to determine whether preamble suppression is
supported. While the LU3X31FT will respond to man-
agement accesses without preamble, a minimum of
one idle bit between management transactions is
required as specified in
IEEE
802.3u.
The PHY device address for LU3X31FT is stored in the
PHY address register (register address 19h). It is ini-
tialized by the five I/O pins designated as PHY[4:0] dur-
ing powerup or hardware reset and can be changed
afterward by writing into register address 19h.
MDIO Interrupt. The LU3X31FT implements interrupt
capability that can be used to notify the management
station of certain events. It generates an active-low
interrupt signal on the MDIOINTZ output pin whenever
one of the interrupt status registers (register address
1Eh) becomes set while its corresponding interrupt
mask register (register address 1Dh) is unmasked.
Reading the interrupt status register (register 1Eh)
shows the source of the interrupt and clears the inter-
rupt output signal.
In addition to the MDIOINTZ pin, the LU3X31FT can
also support the interrupt scheme used by the
TI Thun-
derLAN
*
MAC. This option can be enabled by setting bit
11 of register 17h. Whenever this bit is set, the interrupt
is signaled through both the MDIOINTZ pin and
embedded in the MDIO signal.
100Base-X Module
The LU3X31FT implements a 100Base-X compliant
PCS and PMA and 100Base-TX compliant TP-PMD as
illustrated in Figure 3. Bypass options for each of the
major functional blocks within the 100Base-X PCS pro-
vides flexibility for various applications. 100Mbits/s
PHY loopback is included for diagnostic purposes.
*
TI
is a registered trademark and
ThunderLAN
is a trademark of
Texas Instruments, Inc.