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Small Footprint MII/RMII 10/100 Ethernet Transceiver with HP Auto-MDIX and flexPWR® Technology

Datasheet

Revision 1.4 (08-23-12)

SMSC LAN8710A/LAN8710Ai

DATASHEET

3.4

MAC Interface

The MII/RMII block is responsible for communication with the MAC controller. Special sets of hand-

shake signals are used to indicate that valid received/transmitted data is present on the 4 bit

receive/transmit bus.

The device must be configured in MII or RMII mode. This is done by specific pin strapping

configurations. Refer to Section 3.4.3, "MII vs. RMII Configuration," on page 31 for information on pin

strapping and how the pins are mapped differently.

3.4.1

MII

The MII includes 16 interface signals:

transmit data - TXD[3:0]

transmit strobe - TXEN

transmit clock - TXCLK

transmit error - TXER/TXD4

receive data - RXD[3:0]

receive strobe - RXDV

receive clock - RXCLK

receive error - RXER/RXD4/PHYAD0

collision indication - COL

carrier sense - CRS

In MII mode, on the transmit path, the transceiver drives the transmit clock, TXCLK, to the controller.

The controller synchronizes the transmit data to the rising edge of TXCLK. The controller drives TXEN

high to indicate valid transmit data. The controller drives TXER high when a transmit error is detected.

On the receive path, the transceiver drives both the receive data, RXD[3:0], and the RXCLK signal.

The controller clocks in the receive data on the rising edge of RXCLK when the transceiver drives

RXDV high. The transceiver drives RXER high when a receive error is detected.

3.4.2

RMII

The device supports the low pin count Reduced Media Independent Interface (RMII) intended for use

between Ethernet transceivers and switch ASICs. Under IEEE 802.3, an MII comprised of 16 pins for

data and control is defined. In devices incorporating many MACs or transceiver interfaces such as

switches, the number of pins can add significant cost as the port counts increase. RMII reduces this

pin count while retaining a management interface (MDIO/MDC) that is identical to MII.

The RMII interface has the following characteristics:

It is capable of supporting 10Mbps and 100Mbps data rates

A single clock reference is used for both transmit and receive

It provides independent 2-bit (di-bit) wide transmit and receive data paths

It uses LVCMOS signal levels, compatible with common digital CMOS ASIC processes

The RMII includes the following interface signals (1 optional):

transmit data - TXD[1:0]

transmit strobe - TXEN

receive data - RXD[1:0]

receive error - RXER (Optional)

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