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Preliminary

DS39662B-page 55

ENC28J60

10.0

FLOW CONTROL

The ENC28J60 implements hardware flow control for

both Full and Half-Duplex modes. The operation of this

feature differs depending on which mode is being used.

10.1

Half-Duplex Mode

In Half-Duplex mode, setting the EFLOCON.FCEN0 bit

causes flow control to be enabled. When FCEN0 is set,

a continuous preamble pattern of alternating ‘1’s and

‘0’s (55h) will automatically be transmitted on the

Ethernet medium. Any connected nodes will see the

transmission and either not transmit anything, waiting

for the ENC28J60’s transmission to end, or will attempt

to transmit and immediately cause a collision. Because

a collision will always occur, no nodes on the network

will be able to communicate with each other and no

new packets will arrive.

When the host controller tells the ENC28J60 to

transmit a packet by setting ECON1.TXRTS, the

preamble pattern will stop being transmitted. An Inter-

Packet Gap delay will pass as configured by register

MABBIPG and then the ENC28J60 will attempt to

transmit its packet. During the Inter-Packet Gap delay,

other nodes may begin to transmit. Because all traffic

was jammed previously, several nodes may begin

transmitting and a series of collisions may occur. When

the ENC28J60 successfully finishes transmitting its

packet or aborts it, the transmission of the preamble

pattern will automatically restart. When the host

controller wishes to no longer jam the network, it should

clear the FCEN0 bit. The preamble transmission will

cease and normal network operation will resume.

Given the detrimental network effects that are possible

and lack of effectiveness, it is not recommend that half-

duplex flow control be used unless the application will

be in a closed network environment with proper testing.

10.2

Full-Duplex Mode

In Full-Duplex mode (MACON3.FULDPX = 1), hardware

flow control is implemented by means of transmitting

pause control frames as defined by the IEEE 802.3

specification. Pause control frames are 64-byte frames

consisting of the reserved multicast destination address

of 01-80-C2-00-00-01, the source address of the sender,

a special pause opcode, a two-byte pause timer value

and padding/CRC.

Normally, when a pause control frame is received by a

MAC, the MAC will finish the packet it is transmitting

and then stop transmitting any new frames. The pause

timer value will be extracted from the control frame and

used to initialize an internal timer. The timer will auto-

matically decrement every 512 bit times or 51.2

μs.

While the timer is counting down, reception of packets

is still enabled. If new pause frames arrive, the timer will

be reinitialized with the new pause timer value. When

the timer reaches zero or was sent a frame with a zero

pause timer value, the MAC that received the pause

frame will resume transmitting any pending packets. To

prevent a pause frame from stopping all traffic on the

entire network, Ethernet switches and routers do not

propagate pause control frames in Full-Duplex mode.

The pause operation only applies to the recipient.

A sample network is shown in Figure 10-1. If

Computer A were to be transmitting too much data to

the ENC28J60 in Full-Duplex mode, the ENC28J60

could transmit a pause control frame to stop the data

which is being sent to it. The Ethernet switch would

take the pause frame and stop sending data to the

ENC28J60. If Computer A continues to send data, the

Ethernet switch will buffer the data so it can be

transmitted later when its pause timer expires. If the

Ethernet switch begins to run out of buffer space, it will

likely transmit a pause control frame of its own to

Computer A. If, for some reason, the Ethernet switch

does not generate a pause control frame of its own, or

one of the nodes does not properly handle the pause

frame it receives, then packets will inevitably be

dropped. In any event, any communication between

Computer A and Computer B will always be completely

unaffected.

FIGURE 10-1:

SAMPLE FULL-DUPLEX

NETWORK

Computer A

MC P22S80

C omputer B

Ethernet Sw itch

ENC2 8J60

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