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2.7.3 Interrupt Control

The EMAC control module combines multiple interrupt conditions generated by the EMAC and MDIO

modules into four separate interrupt signals that are mapped to a CPU interrupt via the CPU interrupt

controller. The four separate sources of interrupt can be individually enabled for each channel by the

CMRXTHRESHINTEN, CMRXINTEN, CMTXINTEN, and CMMISCINTEN registers.

2.7.3.1 Transmit Pulse Interrupt

The EMAC control module receives the eight individual transmit interrupts originating from the EMAC

module, one for each of the eight channels, and combines them into a single transmit pulse interrupt to

the CPU. This transmit pulse interrupt is paced, as described in Section 2.7.4. The eight individual

transmit pending interrupt(s) are selected at the EMAC control module level, by setting one or more bits in

the EMAC control module transmit interrupt enable register (CMTXINTEN). The masked interrupt status

can be read in the EMAC control module transmit interrupt status register (CMTXINTSTAT).

Upon reception of a transmit pulse interrupt, the ISR performs the following:

1. Read CMTXINTSTAT to determine which channel(s) caused the interrupt.

2. Process received packets for the interrupting channel(s).

3. Write the appropriate CPGMAC transmit channel n completion pointer register(s) (TXnCP) with the

address of the last buffer descriptor of the last packet processed by the application software.

4. Write the MAC end of interrupt vector register (MACEOIVECTOR) in the EMAC module with a value of

2h to signal the end of the transmit interrupt processing.

2.7.3.2 Receive Pulse Interrupt

The EMAC control module receives the eight individual receive interrupts originating from the EMAC

module, one for each of the eight channels, and combines them into a single receive pulse interrupt to the

CPU. This receive pulse interrupt is paced, as described in Section 2.7.4. The eight individual receive

pending interrupt(s) are selected at the EMAC control module level, by setting one or more bits in the

EMAC control module receive interrupt enable register (CMRXINTEN). The masked interrupt status can

be read in the EMAC control module receive interrupt status register (CMRXINTSTAT).

Upon reception of a receive pulse interrupt, the ISR performs the following:

1. Read CMRXINTSTAT to determine which channel(s) caused the interrupt.

2. Process received packets for the interrupting channel(s).

3. Write the appropriate CPGMAC receive channel n completion pointer register(s) (RXnCP) with the

address of the last buffer descriptor of the last packet processed by the application software.

4. Write the MAC end of interrupt vector register (MACEOIVECTOR) in the EMAC module with a value of

1h to signal the end of the receive interrupt processing.

SPRUFI5B–March 2009–Revised December 2010 Ethernet Media Access Controller (EMAC)/Management Data Input/Output

(MDIO)

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