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5Mbps ARCNET (ANSI 878.1) Controller with 2K x 8 On-Chip RAM

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Revision 12-05-06

Page 44

SMSC COM20020I Rev D

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6.4.3

Receive Sequence

A receive sequence begins with the RI status bit becoming a logic "1", which indicates that a previous

reception has concluded. The microcontroller will be interrupted if the corresponding bit in the Interrupt

Mask Register is set to logic "1". Otherwise, the microcontroller must periodically check the Status

issue the "Enable Receive to Page fnn" command, which resets the RI bit to logic "0" and selects a new

page in the RAM buffer.

Again, the appropriate buffer size is specified in the "Define Configuration"

command. Typically, the page which just received the data packet will be read by the microcontroller at

this point. Once the "Enable Receive to Page fnn" command is issued, the microcontroller attends to other

duties. There is no way of knowing how long the new reception will take, since another node may transmit

a packet at any time. When another node does transmit a packet to this node, and if the "Define

Configuration" command has enabled the reception of long packets, the COM20020ID interprets the

packet as either a long or short packet, depending on whether the content of the buffer location 2 is zero or

non-zero. The format of the buffer is shown in Figure 6.3. Address 0 contains the Source Identifier (SID),

Address 1 contains the Destination Identifier (DID), and Address 2 contains, for short packets, the value

256-N, where N represents the message length, or for long packets, the value 0, indicating that it is indeed

a long packet. In the latter case, Address 3 contains the value 512-N, where N represents the message

length. Note that on reception, the COM20020ID deposits packets into the RAM buffer in the same format

that the transmitting node arranges them, which allows for a message to be received and then

retransmitted without rearranging any bytes in the RAM buffer other than the SID and DID. Once the

packet is received and stored correctly in the selected buffer, the COM20020ID sets the RI bit to logic "1"

to signal the microcontroller that the reception is complete.

Figure 6.3 – Command Chaining Status Register Queue

TRI

POR

TEST

RECON

TMA

TTA

TMA

TTA

TRI

MSB

LSB

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