IP101A LF
Data Sheet
NRZ format.
5. Clock Recovery: The receiver circuit recovers data from the input stream by regenerating clocking
information embedded in the serial stream. The clock recovery block extracts the RXCLK from the
transition of received
6. DSP Engine: This block includes Adaptive equalizer and Base Line Wander correction function.
Transmission Description
10Mbps Transmit flow path:
TXD J Parallel to Serial J NRZI/Manchester Encoder J D/A & line driver J TXO
After MAC passes data to PHY via 4 bits nibbles, the data are serialized in the parallel to serial converter.
The converter outputs NRZI coded data which the data are then mapped to Manchester code within the
Manchester Encoder. Before transmitting to the physical medium, the Manchester coded data are shaped
by D/A converter to fit the physical medium.
10Mbps Receive:
RXI J Squelch J Clock Recovery J Manchester/NRZ Decoder J Serial to Parallel J RXD
The squelch block determines valid data from both AC timing and DC amplitude measurement. When a
valid data is present in the medium, squelch block will generate a signal to indicate the data has received.
The data receive are coded in Manchester form, and are decoded in the Manchester to NRZ Decoder.
Then the data are mapped to 4 bits nibbles and transmitted onto MAC interface.
100Mbps TX Transmit:
TXD J 4B/5B Encoder J Scrambler J Mux J Parallel to Serial J NRZI/MLT-3 Encoder J D/A & line
driver J TXO
The major differences between 10Mbps transmission and 100Mbps transmission are that 100Mbps
transmission requires to be coded from 4-bit wide nibbles to 5 bits wide data coding, and after that the
data are scrambled through scrambler to reduce the radiated energy generated by the 4B/5B conversion.
Then the data is converted into NRZI form and again from NRZI coded form into MLT-3 form. The MLT-3
data form is fed into D/A converter and shaped to fit the physical medium transmission.
100Mbps RX Receive:
RXI J DSP J MLT-3/NRZI Decoder J Clock Recovery J Serial to Parallel J Descrambler J 4B/5B
Decoder J RXD
The received data first go through DSP engines which includes adaptive equalizer and base-line wander
correction mechanism. The adaptive equalizer will compensate the loss of signals during the transmission,
while base-line wander monitors and corrects the equalization process. If a valid data is detected then the
data are parallelized in Serial to Parallel block, which it converts NRZI coded data form back to scrambled
data. The scrambled data are descrambled and converted back to 4 bits–wide format data and then feed
into MAC.
MII and Management Control Interface
Media Independent Interface (MII) is described in clause 22 in the IEEE 802.3u standard. The main
function of this interface is to provide a communication path between PHY and MAC/Repeater. It can
operate either in 10Mbps or 100Mbps environment, and operate at 2.5MHz frequency for 10Mbps clock
data rate or 25MHz frequency for 100Mbps data rate transmission. MII consists of 4 bit wide data path for
both transmit and receive. The transmission pins consists of TXD[3:0], TX_EN and TXC, and at receiving
MII pins have RXD[3:0], RXER, RX_DV and RXC. The Management control pins include MDC and MDIO.
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