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ENC28J60
Data Sheet
Stand-Alone Ethernet Controller
with SPI Interface

© 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.

Preliminary

DS39662B
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© 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
ENC28J60
Stand-Alone Ethernet Controller with SPI Interface
Ethernet Controller Features

Operational

• IEEE 802.3 compatible Ethernet controller
• Integrated MAC and 10BASE-T PHY
• Supports one 10BASE-T port with automatic
polarity detection and correction
• Supports Full and Half-Duplex modes
• Programmable automatic retransmit on collision
• Programmable padding and CRC generation
• Programmable automatic rejection of erroneous
packets
• SPI Interface with clock speeds up to 20 MHz

•
•
•
•
•
•

Six interrupt sources and one interrupt output pin
25 MHz clock input requirement
Clock out pin with programmable prescaler
Operating voltage of 3.1V to 3.6V (3.3V typical)
5V tolerant inputs
Temperature range: -40°C to +85°C Industrial,
0°C to +70°C Commercial (SSOP only)
• 28-pin SPDIP, SSOP, SOIC, QFN packages

Package Types
28-Pin SPDIP, SSOP, SOIC

Medium Access Controller (MAC)
Features

VDD

28
27
26
25
24
23
22
21
20
19
18
17
16
15

ENC28J60

8-Kbyte transmit/receive packet dual port SRAM
Configurable transmit/receive buffer size
Hardware-managed circular receive FIFO
Byte-wide random and sequential access with
auto-increment
• Internal DMA for fast data movement
• Hardware assisted checksum calculation for various network protocols

• Supports Unicast, Multicast and Broadcast
packets
• Programmable receive packet filtering and
wake-up host on logical AND or OR of the
following:
- Unicast destination address
- Multicast address
- Broadcast address
- Magic Packet™
- Group destination addresses as defined by
64-bit hash table
- Programmable pattern matching of up to
64 bytes at user-defined offset

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14

VCAP
VSS
CLKOUT
INT
NC*
SO
SI
SCK
CS
RESET
VSSRX
TPINTPIN+
RBIAS

•
•
•
•

LEDA
LEDB
VDDOSC
OSC2
OSC1
VSSOSC
VSSPLL
VDDPLL
VDDRX
VSSTX
TPOUT+
TPOUTVDDTX

INT
CLKOUT
VSS
VCAP
VDD
LEDA
LEDB

Buffer

28-pin QFN

28 27 26 25 24 23 22
NC*
SO
SI
SCK
CS
RESET
VSSRX

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

ENC28J60

21
20
19
18
17
16
15

VDDOSC
OSC2
OSC1
VSSOSC
VSSPLL
VDDPLL
VDDRX

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

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TPOUTTPOUT+
VSSTX

• Loopback mode
• Two programmable LED outputs for LINK, TX,
RX, collision and full/half-duplex status

TPINTPIN+
RBIAS
VDDTX

Physical Layer (PHY) Features

* Reserved pin; always leave disconnected.

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DS39662B-page 1
ENC28J60
Table of Contents
1.0 Overview ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
2.0 External Connections ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
3.0 Memory Organization ................................................................................................................................................................. 11
4.0 Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)................................................................................................................................................. 25
5.0 Ethernet Overview ...................................................................................................................................................................... 31
6.0 Initialization................................................................................................................................................................................. 33
7.0 Transmitting and Receiving Packets .......................................................................................................................................... 39
8.0 Receive Filters............................................................................................................................................................................ 47
9.0 Duplex Mode Configuration and Negotiation.............................................................................................................................. 53
10.0 Flow Control ............................................................................................................................................................................... 55
11.0 Reset .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 59
12.0 Interrupts .................................................................................................................................................................................... 63
13.0 Direct Memory Access Controller ............................................................................................................................................... 71
14.0 Power-Down ............................................................................................................................................................................... 73
15.0 Built-in Self-Test Controller ........................................................................................................................................................ 75
16.0 Electrical Characteristics ............................................................................................................................................................ 79
17.0 Packaging Information................................................................................................................................................................ 83
Index .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 89
The Microchip Web Site ....................................................................................................................................................................... 91
Customer Change Notification Service ................................................................................................................................................ 91
Customer Support ................................................................................................................................................................................ 91
Reader Response ................................................................................................................................................................................ 92
Product Identification System............................................................................................................................................................... 93

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ENC28J60
1.0

OVERVIEW

The ENC28J60 consists of seven major functional
blocks:

The ENC28J60 is a stand-alone Ethernet controller
with an industry standard Serial Peripheral Interface
(SPI). It is designed to serve as an Ethernet network
interface for any controller equipped with SPI.
The ENC28J60 meets all of the IEEE 802.3 specifications. It incorporates a number of packet filtering
schemes to limit incoming packets. It also provides an
internal DMA module for fast data throughput and hardware assisted checksum calculation, which is used in
various network protocols. Communication with the
host controller is implemented via an interrupt pin and
the SPI, with clock rates of up to 20 MHz. Two dedicated pins are used for LED link and network activity
indication.
A simple block diagram of the ENC28J60 is shown in
Figure 1-1. A typical application circuit using the device
is shown in Figure 1-2. With the ENC28J60, two pulse
transformers and a few passive components are all that
is required to connect a microcontroller to an Ethernet
network.

FIGURE 1-1:

1.

An SPI interface that serves as a communication channel between the host controller and the
ENC28J60.
Control Registers which are used to control and
monitor the ENC28J60.
A dual port RAM buffer for received and
transmitted data packets.
An arbiter to control the access to the RAM
buffer when requests are made from DMA,
transmit and receive blocks.
The bus interface that interprets data and
commands received via the SPI interface.
The MAC (Medium Access Control) module that
implements IEEE 802.3 compliant MAC logic.
The PHY (Physical Layer) module that encodes
and decodes the analog data that is present on
the twisted pair interface.

2.
3.
4.

5.
6.
7.

The device also contains other support blocks, such as
the oscillator, on-chip voltage regulator, level translators
to provide 5V tolerant I/Os and system control logic.

ENC28J60 BLOCK DIAGRAM
LEDA

Buffer

LEDB

RX

8 Kbytes
Dual Port RAM

MAC
RXBM
TPOUT+
RXF (Filter)

CLKOUT

Control
Registers

TX

MII
Interface

ch0
Arbiter

ch0
ch1

DMA &
Checksum

PHY

TPOUT-

TPIN+

TX
ch1

RX

TXBM
INT

TPIN-

Flow Control

Bus Interface

MIIM
Interface

RBIAS

Host Interface

CS(1)
SI(1)
SO

OSC1
SPI

System Control

Power-on
Reset

Voltage
Regulator

25 MHz
Oscillator

OSC2

SCK(1)

VCAP

RESET(1)
Note 1:

These pins are 5V tolerant.

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ENC28J60
FIGURE 1-2:

TYPICAL ENC28J60-BASED INTERFACE
MCU

ENC28J60

TPIN+/-

CS

I/O
SDO

SO

SDI

SCK

SCK

RJ45

TPOUT+/-

SI

TX/RX
Buffer

MAC

ETHERNET
TRANSFORMER

PHY
LEDA

INT
INTX

LEDB

TABLE 1-1:

PINOUT I/O DESCRIPTIONS
Pin Number

SPDIP,
SOIC, SSOP

QFN

Pin
Type

Buffer
Type

VCAP

1

25

P

—

2.5V output from internal regulator. A low Equivalent Series Resistance
(ESR) capacitor, with a typical value of 10 μF and a minimum value of
1 μF to ground, must be placed on this pin.

VSS

2

26

P

—

Ground reference.

CLKOUT

3

27

O

—

Programmable clock output pin.(1)

INT

4

28

O

—

INT interrupt output pin.(2)

NC

5

1

O

—

Reserved function; always leave unconnected.

SO

6

2

O

—

Data out pin for SPI interface.(2)

SI

7

3

I

ST

Data in pin for SPI interface.(3)

SCK

8

4

I

ST

Clock in pin for SPI interface.(3)

CS

9

5

I

ST

Chip select input pin for SPI interface.(3,4)

RESET

10

6

I

ST

Active-low device Reset input.(3, 4)

VSSRX

11

7

P

—

Ground reference for PHY RX.

TPIN-

12

8

I

ANA

Differential signal input.

TPIN+

13

9

I

ANA

Differential signal input.

RBIAS

14

10

I

ANA

Bias current pin for PHY. Must be tied to ground via a resistor (refer to
Section 2.4 “Magnetics, Termination and Other External Components”
for details).

VDDTX

15

11

P

—

Positive supply for PHY TX.

TPOUT-

16

12

O

—

Differential signal output.

TPOUT+

17

13

O

—

Differential signal output.

VSSTX

18

14

P

—

Ground reference for PHY TX.

VDDRX

19

15

P

—

Positive 3.3V supply for PHY RX.

VDDPLL

20

16

P

—

Positive 3.3V supply for PHY PLL.

VSSPLL

21

17

P

—

Ground reference for PHY PLL.

VSSOSC

22

18

P

—

Ground reference for oscillator.

OSC1

23

19

I

ANA

OSC2

24

20

O

—

Oscillator output.

VDDOSC

25

21

P

—

Positive 3.3V supply for oscillator.

LEDB

26

22

O

—

LEDB driver pin.(5)

LEDA

27

23

O

—

LEDA driver pin.(5)

28

24

P

—

Positive 3.3V supply.

Pin Name

VDD
Legend:
Note 1:
2:
3:
4:
5:

Description

Oscillator input.

I = Input, O = Output, P = Power, DIG = Digital input, ANA = Analog signal input, ST = Schmitt Trigger
Pins have a maximum current capacity of 8 mA.
Pins have a maximum current capacity of 4 mA.
Pins are 5V tolerant.
Pins have an internal weak pull-up to VDD.
Pins have a maximum current capacity of 12 mA.

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ENC28J60
2.0

EXTERNAL CONNECTIONS

2.1

Oscillator

2.2

The ENC28J60 is designed to operate at 25 MHz with
a crystal connected to the OSC1 and OSC2 pins. The
ENC28J60 design requires the use of a parallel cut
crystal. Use of a series cut crystal may give a frequency
out of the crystal manufacturer specifications. A typical
oscillator circuit is shown in Figure 2-1.
The ENC28J60 may also be driven by an external clock
source connected to the OSC1 pin as shown in
Figure 2-2.

FIGURE 2-1:

CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR
OPERATION

The ENC28J60 contains an Oscillator Start-up Timer
(OST) to ensure that the oscillator and integrated PHY
have stabilized before use. The OST does not expire
until 7500 OSC1 clock cycles (300 μs) pass after
Power-on Reset or wake-up from Power-Down mode
occurs. During the delay, all Ethernet registers and
buffer memory may still be read and written to through
the SPI bus. However, software should not attempt to
transmit any packets (set ECON1.TXRTS), enable
reception of packets (set ECON1.RXEN) or access any
MAC, MII or PHY registers during this period.
When the OST expires, the CLKRDY bit in the ESTAT
register will be set. The application software should poll
this bit as necessary to determine when normal device
operation can begin.
Note:

ENC28J60
OSC1
C1

Oscillator Start-up Timer

To Internal Logic
XTAL

After a Power-on Reset, or the ENC28J60
is removed from Power-Down mode, the
CLKRDY bit must be polled before
transmitting packets, enabling packet
reception or accessing any MAC, MII or
PHY registers.

RF(2)
RS(1)
OSC2

C2
Note 1:

A series resistor, RS, may be required for AT
strip cut crystals.

2:

The feedback resistor, RF , is typically in the
range of 2 to 10 MΩ.

FIGURE 2-2:

EXTERNAL CLOCK
SOURCE(1)
ENC28J60

3.3V Clock from
External System

Open(2)

Note 1:
2:

OSC1

OSC2

Duty cycle restrictions must be observed.
A resistor to ground may be used to reduce
system noise. This may increase system
current.

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ENC28J60
2.3

CLKOUT Pin

The clock out pin is provided to the system designer for
use as the host controller clock or as a clock source for
other devices in the system. The CLKOUT has an
internal prescaler which can divide the output by 1, 2,
3, 4 or 8. The CLKOUT function is enabled and the
prescaler is selected via the ECOCON register
(Register 2-1).
To create a clean clock signal, the CLKOUT pin is held
low for a period when power is first applied. After the
Power-on Reset ends, the OST will begin counting.
When the OST expires, the CLKOUT pin will begin outputting its default frequency of 6.25 MHz (main clock
divided by 4). At any future time that the ENC28J60 is
reset by software or the RESET pin, the CLKOUT function will not be altered (ECOCON will not change

FIGURE 2-3:

value). Additionally, Power-Down mode may be
entered and the CLKOUT function will continue to
operate. When Power-Down mode is cancelled, the
OST will be reset but the CLKOUT function will
continue. When the CLKOUT function is disabled
(ECOCON = 0), the CLKOUT pin is driven low.
The CLKOUT function is designed to ensure that minimum timings are preserved when the CLKOUT pin
function is enabled, disabled or the prescaler value is
changed. No high or low pulses will be outputted which
exceed the frequency specified by the ECOCON
configuration. However, when switching frequencies, a
delay between two and eight OSC1 clock periods will
occur where no clock pulses will be produced (see
Figure 2-3). During this period, CLKOUT will be held
low.

CLKOUT TRANSITION

ECOCON
Changed

REGISTER 2-1:

80 ns to 320 ns Delay

ECOCON: CLOCK OUTPUT CONTROL REGISTER

U-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

R/W-1

R/W-0

R/W-0

—

—

—

—

—

COCON2

COCON1

COCON0

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 7-3

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 2-0

COCON2:COCON0: Clock Output Configuration bits
11x = Reserved for factory test. Do not use. Glitch prevention not assured.
101 = CLKOUT outputs main clock divided by 8 (3.125 MHz)
100 = CLKOUT outputs main clock divided by 4 (6.25 MHz)
011 = CLKOUT outputs main clock divided by 3 (8.333333 MHz)
010 = CLKOUT outputs main clock divided by 2 (12.5 MHz)
001 = CLKOUT outputs main clock divided by 1 (25 MHz)
000 = CLKOUT is disabled. The pin is driven low.

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ENC28J60
2.4

Magnetics, Termination and Other
External Components

To complete the Ethernet interface, the ENC28J60
requires several standard components to be installed
externally. These components should be connected as
shown in Figure 2-4.
The internal analog circuitry in the PHY module requires
that an external 2.32 kΩ, 1% resistor be attached from
RBIAS to ground. The resistor influences the TPOUT+/signal amplitude. The resistor should be placed as close
as possible to the chip with no immediately adjacent
signal traces to prevent noise capacitively coupling into
the pin and affecting the transmit behavior. It is
recommended that the resistor be a surface mount type.
Some of the device’s digital logic operates at a nominal
2.5V. An on-chip voltage regulator is incorporated to
generate this voltage. The only external component
required is an external filter capacitor, connected from
VCAP to ground. The capacitor must have low equivalent-series resistance (ESR), with a typical value of
10 μF, and a minimum value of 1 μF. The internal regulator is not designed to drive external loads.
On the TPIN+/TPIN- and TPOUT+/TPOUT- pins,
1:1 center-taped pulse transformers rated for Ethernet
operations are required. When the Ethernet module is
enabled, current is continually sunk through both
TPOUT pins. When the PHY is actively transmitting, a
differential voltage is created on the Ethernet cable by
varying the relative current sunk by TPOUT+ compared
to TPOUT-.

FIGURE 2-4:

A common-mode choke on the TPOUT interface,
placed between the TPOUT pins and the Ethernet
transformer (not shown), is not recommend. If a common-mode choke is used to reduce EMI emissions, it
should be placed between the Ethernet transformer
and pins 1 and 2 of the RJ-45 connector. Many Ethernet transformer modules include common-mode
chokes inside the same device package. The transformers should have at least the isolation rating specified in Table 16-5 to protect against static voltages and
meet IEEE 802.3 isolation requirements (see
Section 16.0 “Electrical Characteristics” for specific
transformer requirements). Both transmit and receive
interfaces additionally require two resistors and a
capacitor to properly terminate the transmission line,
minimizing signal reflections.
All power supply pins must be externally connected to
the same power source. Similarly, all ground references must be externally connected to the same
ground node. Each VDD and VSS pin pair should have
a 0.1 μF ceramic bypass capacitor (not shown in the
schematic) placed as close to the pins as possible.
Since relatively high currents are necessary to operate
the twisted-pair interface, all wires should be kept as
short as possible. Reasonable wire widths should be
used on power wires to reduce resistive loss. If the
differential data lines cannot be kept short, they should
be routed in such a way as to have a 100Ω characteristic impedance.

ENC28J60 ETHERNET TERMINATION AND EXTERNAL CONNECTIONS
3.3V

ENC28J60

MCU

TPOUT+

I/O
SCK
SDO
SDI

49.9Ω, 1%

0.1 μF(3)

2
TPOUT-

3

1:1 CT

TPIN+

Level
Shift
Logic(2)

4

49.9Ω, 1%

5
49.9Ω, 1%

INT0

1

Ferrite
Bead(1,3)

49.9Ω, 1%

CS
SCK
SI
SO

RJ-45
1

INT

0.1 μF
1:1 CT

TPIN-

6

RBIAS
VCAP

LEDA

7

LEDB

8
2.32 kΩ, 1%

10 μF

75Ω(3) 75Ω(3) 75Ω(3) 75Ω(3)
1 nF, 2 kV(3)

Note

1:

Ferrite Bead should be rated for at least 80 mA.

2:

Required only if the microcontroller is operating at 5V. See Section 2.5 “I/O Levels” for more information.

3:

These components are installed for EMI reduction purposes.

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ENC28J60
2.5

I/O Levels

2.6

The ENC28J60 is a 3.3V part; however, it was
designed to be easily integrated into 5V systems. The
SPI CS, SCK and SI inputs, as well as the RESET pin,
are all 5V tolerant. On the other hand, if the host
controller is operated at 5V, it quite likely will not be
within specifications when its SPI and interrupt inputs
are driven by the 3.3V CMOS outputs on the
ENC28J60. A unidirectional level translator would be
necessary.
An economical 74HCT08 (quad AND gate), 74ACT125
(quad 3-state buffer) or many other 5V CMOS chips
with TTL level input buffers may be used to provide the
necessary level shifting. The use of 3-state buffers
permits easy integration into systems which share the
SPI bus with other devices. Figure 2-5 and Figure 2-6
show example translation schemes.

FIGURE 2-5:

MCU

LEVEL SHIFTING USING
AND GATES
ENC28J60

I/O
SCK

LED Configuration

The LEDA and LEDB pins support automatic polarity
detection on Reset. The LEDs can be connected such
that the pin must source current to turn the LED on, or
alternately connected such that the pin must sink current to turn the LED on. Upon system Reset, the
ENC28J60 will detect how the LED is connected and
begin driving the LED to the default state configured by
the PHLCON register. If the LED polarity is changed
while the ENC28J60 is operating, the new polarity will
not be detected until the next system Reset occurs.
LEDB is unique in that the connection of the LED is
automatically read on Reset and determines how to initialize the PHCON1.PDPXMD bit. If the pin sources
current to illuminate the LED, the bit is cleared on
Reset and the PHY defaults to half-duplex operation. If
the pin sinks current to illuminate the LED, the bit is set
on Reset and the PHY defaults to full-duplex operation.
Figure 2-7 shows the two available options. If no LED
is attached to the LEDB pin, the PDPXMD bit will reset
to an indeterminate value.

FIGURE 2-7:

LEDB POLARITY AND
RESET CONFIGURATION
OPTIONS

CS
SCK

SO

SI

SI

SO

OSC1
INT0

Full-Duplex Operation:
PDPXMD = 1

CLKOUT

+3.3V

LEDB

INT

Half-Duplex Operation:
PDPXMD = 0

FIGURE 2-6:

LEVEL SHIFTING USING
3-STATE BUFFERS

LEDB

ENC28J60

MCU
I/O
SCK

CS
SCK

SO

SI

SI

SO

OSC1
INT0

CLKOUT
INT

The LEDs can also be configured separately to control
their operating polarity (on or off when active), blink rate
and blink stretch interval. The options are controlled by
the LACFG3:LACFG0 and LBCFG3:LBCFG0 bits.
Typical values for blink stretch are listed in Table 2-1.

TABLE 2-1:

LED BLINK STRETCH
LENGTH

Stretch Length

Typical Stretch (ms)

TNSTRCH (normal)

70

TLSTRCH (long)

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40

TMSTRCH (medium)

140

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REGISTER 2-2:

PHLCON: PHY MODULE LED CONTROL REGISTER

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-1

R/W-1

R/W-0

R/W-1

R/W-0

R/W-0

r

r

r

r

LACFG3

LACFG2

LACFG1

LACFG0

bit 15

bit 8

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-1

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-1

R/W-x

LBCFG3

LBCFG2

LBCFG1

LBCFG0

LFRQ1

LFRQ0

STRCH

r

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 15-14

Reserved: Write as ‘0’

bit 13-12

Reserved: Write as ‘1’

bit 11-8

LACFG3:LACFG0: LEDA Configuration bits
1111 = Reserved
1110 = Display duplex status and collision activity (always stretched)
1101 = Display link status and transmit/receive activity (always stretched)
1100 = Display link status and receive activity (always stretched)
1011 = Blink slow
1010 = Blink fast
1001 = Off
1000 = On
0111 = Display transmit and receive activity (stretchable)
0110 = Reserved
0101 = Display duplex status
0100 = Display link status
0011 = Display collision activity (stretchable)
0010 = Display receive activity (stretchable)
0001 = Display transmit activity (stretchable)
0000 = Reserved

bit 7-4

LBCFG3:LBCFG0: LEDB Configuration bits
1110 = Display duplex status and collision activity (always stretched)
1101 = Display link status and transmit/receive activity (always stretched)
1100 = Display link status and receive activity (always stretched)
1011 = Blink slow
1010 = Blink fast
1001 = Off
1000 = On
0111 = Display transmit and receive activity (stretchable)
0110 = Reserved
0101 = Display duplex status
0100 = Display link status
0011 = Display collision activity (stretchable)
0010 = Display receive activity (stretchable)
0001 = Display transmit activity (stretchable)
0000 = Reserved

bit 3-2

LFRQ1:LFRQ0: LED Pulse Stretch Time Configuration bits (see Table 2-1)
11 = Reserved
10 = Stretch LED events by TLSTRCH
01 = Stretch LED events by TMSTRCH
00 = Stretch LED events by TNSTRCH

bit 1

STRCH: LED Pulse Stretching Enable bit
1 = Stretchable LED events will cause lengthened LED pulses based on LFRQ1:LFRQ0 configuration
0 = Stretchable LED events will only be displayed while they are occurring

bit 0

Reserved: Write as ‘0’

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ENC28J60
3.0

MEMORY ORGANIZATION

All memory in the ENC28J60 is implemented as static
RAM. There are three types of memory in the
ENC28J60:
• Control Registers
• Ethernet Buffer
• PHY Registers
The Control registers’ memory contains the registers
that are used for configuration, control and status
retrieval of the ENC28J60. The Control registers are
directly read and written to by the SPI interface.

The Ethernet buffer contains transmit and receive
memory used by the Ethernet controller in a single
memory space. The sizes of the memory areas are
programmable by the host controller using the SPI
interface. The Ethernet buffer memory can only be
accessed via the read buffer memory and write buffer
memory SPI commands (see Section 4.2.2 “Read
Buffer Memory Command” and Section 4.2.4 “Write
Buffer Memory Command”).
The PHY registers are used for configuration, control
and status retrieval of the PHY module. The registers
are not directly accessible through the SPI interface;
they can only be accessed through Media Independent
Interface Management (MIIM) implemented in the
MAC.
Figure 3-1 shows the data memory organization for the
ENC28J60.

FIGURE 3-1:

ENC28J60 MEMORY ORGANIZATION

ECON1<1:0>

Control Registers

Ethernet Buffer

00h

0000h
Buffer Pointers in Bank 0

= 00
Bank 0

19h
1Ah
1Fh
00h

Common
Registers

= 01
Bank 1

19h
1Ah
1Fh
00h

Common
Registers

= 10
Bank 2

19h
1Ah
1Fh
00h

Common
Registers

= 11
Bank 3

19h
1Ah
1Fh

Note:

1FFFh

PHY Registers
Common
Registers

00h
1Fh

Memory areas are not shown to scale. The size of the control memory space has been scaled to show detail.

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3.1

Control Registers

Some of the available addresses are unimplemented.
Any attempts to write to these locations are ignored
while reads return ‘0’s. The register at address 1Ah in
each bank is reserved; read and write operations
should not be performed on this register. All other
reserved registers may be read, but their contents must
not be changed. When reading and writing to registers
which contain reserved bits, any rules stated in the
register definition should be observed.

The Control Registers provide the main interface
between the host controller and the on-chip Ethernet
controller logic. Writing to these registers controls the
operation of the interface, while reading the registers
allows the host controller to monitor operations.
The Control Register memory is partitioned into four
banks, selectable by the bank select bits
BSEL1:BSEL0 in the ECON1 register. Each bank is
32 bytes long and addressed by a 5-bit address value.

Control registers for the ENC28J60 are generically
grouped as ETH, MAC and MII registers. Register
names starting with “E” belong to the ETH group.
Similarly, registers names starting with “MA” belong to
the MAC group and registers prefixed with “MI” belong
to the MII group.

The last five locations (1Bh to 1Fh) of all banks point to a
common set of registers: EIE, EIR, ESTAT, ECON2 and
ECON1. These are key registers used in controlling and
monitoring the operation of the device. Their common
mapping allows easy access without switching the bank.
The ECON1 and ECON2 registers are discussed later in
this section.

TABLE 3-1:
Bank 0
Address
00h

ENC28J60 CONTROL REGISTER MAP
Name

Bank 1
Address

Name

Bank 2
Address

Name

Bank 3
Address
00h

Name

ERDPTL

00h

EHT0

00h

MACON1

MAADR5

01h

ERDPTH

01h

EHT1

01h

Reserved

01h

MAADR6

02h

EWRPTL

02h

EHT2

02h

MACON3

02h

MAADR3

03h

EWRPTH

03h

EHT3

03h

MACON4

03h

MAADR4

04h

ETXSTL

04h

EHT4

04h

MABBIPG

04h

MAADR1
MAADR2

05h

ETXSTH

05h

EHT5

05h

—

05h

06h

ETXNDL

06h

EHT6

06h

MAIPGL

06h

EBSTSD

07h

ETXNDH

07h

EHT7

07h

MAIPGH

07h

EBSTCON

08h

ERXSTL

08h

EPMM0

08h

MACLCON1

08h

EBSTCSL

09h

ERXSTH

09h

EPMM1

09h

MACLCON2

09h

EBSTCSH

0Ah

ERXNDL

0Ah

EPMM2

0Ah

MAMXFLL

0Ah

MISTAT

0Bh

ERXNDH

0Bh

EPMM3

0Bh

MAMXFLH

0Bh

—

0Ch

ERXRDPTL

0Ch

EPMM4

0Ch

Reserved

0Ch

—

0Dh

ERXRDPTH

0Dh

EPMM5

0Dh

Reserved

0Dh

—

0Eh

ERXWRPTL

0Eh

EPMM6

0Eh

Reserved

0Eh

—

0Fh

ERXWRPTH

0Fh

EPMM7

0Fh

—

0Fh

—

10h

EDMASTL

10h

EPMCSL

10h

Reserved

10h

—

11h

EDMASTH

11h

EPMCSH

11h

Reserved

11h

—

12h

EDMANDL

12h

—

12h

MICMD

12h

EREVID

13h

EDMANDH

13h

—

13h

—

13h

—

14h

EDMADSTL

14h

EPMOL

14h

MIREGADR

14h

—

15h

EDMADSTH

15h

EPMOH

15h

Reserved

15h

ECOCON

16h

EDMACSL

16h

Reserved

16h

MIWRL

16h

Reserved

17h

EDMACSH

17h

Reserved

17h

MIWRH

17h

EFLOCON

18h

—

18h

ERXFCON

18h

MIRDL

18h

EPAUSL

19h

—

19h

EPKTCNT

19h

MIRDH

19h

EPAUSH

1Ah

Reserved

1Ah

Reserved

1Ah

Reserved

1Ah

Reserved

1Bh

EIE

1Bh

EIE

1Bh

EIE

1Bh

EIE

1Ch

EIR

1Ch

EIR

1Ch

EIR

1Ch

EIR

1Dh

ESTAT

1Dh

ESTAT

1Dh

ESTAT

1Dh

ESTAT

1Eh

ECON2

1Eh

ECON2

1Eh

ECON2

1Eh

ECON2

1Fh

ECON1

1Fh

ECON1

1Fh

ECON1

1Fh

ECON1

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TABLE 3-2:

ENC28J60 CONTROL REGISTER SUMMARY
Bit 2

Bit 1

Bit 0

Value
on
Reset

Details
on
Page

TXIE

r

TXERIE

RXERIE

0000 0000

65

TXIF

r

TXERIF

RXERIF

-000 0000

66

—

RXBUSY

TXABRT

CLKRDY(1) 0000 -000

64

Register Name

Bit 7

Bit 6

Bit 5

Bit 4

Bit 3

EIE

INTIE

PKTIE

DMAIE

LINKIE

EIR

—

PKTIF

DMAIF

LINKIF

ESTAT

INT

BUFER

r

LATECOL

ECON2

AUTOINC

PKTDEC

PWRSV

r

VRPS

—

—

—

1000 0---

16

ECON1

TXRST

RXRST

DMAST

CSUMEN

TXRTS

RXEN

BSEL1

BSEL0

0000 0000

15

1111 1010

17

ERDPTL
ERDPTH
EWRPTL
EWRPTH
ETXSTL
ETXSTH
ETXNDL
ETXNDH
ERXSTL
ERXSTH
ERXNDL
ERXNDH
ERXRDPTL
ERXRDPTH
ERXWRPTL
ERXWRPTH
EDMASTL
EDMASTH
EDMANDL
EDMANDH
EDMADSTL
EDMADSTH
EDMACSL

Read Pointer Low Byte ERDPT<7:0>)
—

—

—

Read Pointer High Byte (ERDPT<12:8>)

—

—

—

Write Pointer High Byte (EWRPT<12:8>)

—

—

TX Start High Byte (ETXST<12:8>)

—

—

TX End High Byte (ETXND<12:8>)

—

—

RX Start High Byte (ERXST<12:8>)

—

—

RX End High Byte (ERXND<12:8>)

—

—

RX RD Pointer High Byte (ERXRDPT<12:8>)

—

—

RX WR Pointer High Byte (ERXWRPT<12:8>)

—

—

DMA Start High Byte (EDMAST<12:8>)

—

—

DMA End High Byte (EDMAND<12:8>)

—

—

17
17

---1 1111

17
17

---0 0101

17
17

---0 0000

17
71

---0 0000

71
71

DMA Destination High Byte (EDMADST<12:8>)

---0 0000

71

0000 0000

DMA Destination Low Byte (EDMADST<7:0>)
—

---0 0101

0000 0000

DMA End Low Byte (EDMAND<7:0>)
—

17
17

0000 0000

DMA Start Low Byte (EDMAST<7:0>)
—

---0 0000

0000 0000

RX WR Pointer Low Byte (ERXWRPT<7:0>)
—

17
17

1111 1010

RX RD Pointer Low Byte (ERXRDPT<7:0>)
—

---0 0000

1111 1111

RX End Low Byte (ERXND<7:0>)
—

17
17

1111 1010

RX Start Low Byte (ERXST<7:0>)
—

---0 0000

0000 0000

TX End Low Byte (ETXND<7:0>)
—

17

0000 0000

TX Start Low Byte (ETXST<7:0>)
—

17

0000 0000

Write Pointer Low Byte (EWRPT<7:0>)

---0 0101

71

---0 0000

71

0000 0000

DMA Checksum Low Byte (EDMACS<7:0>)

72

EDMACSH

DMA Checksum High Byte (EDMACS<15:8>)

0000 0000

72

EHT0

Hash Table Byte 0 (EHT<7:0>)

0000 0000

52

EHT1

Hash Table Byte 1 (EHT<15:8>)

0000 0000

52

EHT2

Hash Table Byte 2 (EHT<23:16>)

0000 0000

52

EHT3

Hash Table Byte 3 (EHT<31:24>)

0000 0000

52

EHT4

Hash Table Byte 4 (EHT<39:32>)

0000 0000

52

EHT5

Hash Table Byte 5 (EHT<47:40>)

0000 0000

52

EHT6

Hash Table Byte 6 (EHT<55:48>)

0000 0000

52

EHT7

Hash Table Byte 7 (EHT<63:56>)

0000 0000

52

EPMM0

Pattern Match Mask Byte 0 (EPMM<7:0>)

0000 0000

51

EPMM1

Pattern Match Mask Byte 1 (EPMM<15:8>)

0000 0000

51

EPMM2

Pattern Match Mask Byte 2 (EPMM<23:16>)

0000 0000

51

EPMM3

Pattern Match Mask Byte 3 (EPMM<31:24>)

0000 0000

51

EPMM4

Pattern Match Mask Byte 4 (EPMM<39:32>)

0000 0000

51

EPMM5

Pattern Match Mask Byte 5 (EPMM<47:40>)

0000 0000

51

EPMM6

Pattern Match Mask Byte 6 (EPMM<55:48>)

0000 0000

51

Pattern Match Mask Byte 7 (EPMM<63:56>)

0000 0000

51

EPMM7
Legend:
Note 1:
2:
3:

x = unknown, u = unchanged, — = unimplemented, q = value depends on condition, r = reserved, do not modify.
CLKRDY resets to ‘0’ on Power-on Reset but is unaffected on all other Resets.
EREVID is a read-only register.
ECOCON resets to ‘---- -100’ on Power-on Reset and ‘---- -uuu’ on all other Resets.

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TABLE 3-2:

ENC28J60 CONTROL REGISTER SUMMARY (CONTINUED)

Register Name

Bit 7

Bit 6

Bit 5

Bit 4

Bit 3

Bit 2

Bit 1

Bit 0

Value
on
Reset

Details
on
Page

EPMCSL

Pattern Match Checksum Low Byte (EPMCS<7:0>)

0000 0000

51

EPMCSH

Pattern Match Checksum High Byte (EPMCS<15:0>)

0000 0000

51

EPMOL

Pattern Match Offset Low Byte (EPMO<7:0>)

EPMOH
ERXFCON
EPKTCNT

—

—

—

UCEN

ANDOR

CRCEN

0000 0000

PMEN

MPEN

HTEN

MCEN

BCEN

51

---0 0000

Pattern Match Offset High Byte (EPMO<12:8>)

51

1010 0001

48

0000 0000

Ethernet Packet Count

43

MACON1

—

—

—

r

TXPAUS

RXPAUS

PASSALL

MARXEN

---0 0000

34

MACON3

PADCFG2

PADCFG1

PADCFG0

TXCRCEN

PHDREN

HFRMEN

FRMLNEN

FULDPX

0000 0000

35

MACON4

—

DEFER

BPEN

NOBKOFF

—

—

r

r

-000 --00

36

MABBIPG

—

Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap (BBIPG<6:0>)

-000 0000

36

MAIPGL

—

Non-Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap Low Byte (MAIPGL<6:0>)

-000 0000

34

MAIPGH

—

Non-Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap High Byte (MAIPGH<6:0>)

-000 0000

34

MACLCON1

—

—

---- 1111

34

—

—

--11 0111

34

MACLCON2

—

—

Retransmission Maximum (RETMAX<3:0>)

Collision Window (COLWIN<5:0>)

MAMXFLL

Maximum Frame Length Low Byte (MAMXFL<7:0>)

0000 0000

34

MAMXFLH

Maximum Frame Length High Byte (MAMXFL<15:8>)

0000 0110

34

MICMD

—

—

—

MIREGADR

—

—

—

—

—

—

MIISCAN

MIIRD

---- --00

21

---0 0000

MII Register Address (MIREGADR<4:0>)

19

MIWRL

MII Write Data Low Byte (MIWR<7:0>)

0000 0000

19

MIWRH

MII Write Data High Byte (MIWR<15:8>)

0000 0000

19

MIRDL

MII Read Data Low Byte (MIRD<7:0>)

0000 0000

19

MIRDH

MII Read Data High Byte(MIRD<15:8>)

0000 0000

19

MAADR5

MAC Address Byte 5 (MAADR<15:8>)

0000 0000

34

MAADR6

MAC Address Byte 6 (MAADR<7:0>)

0000 0000

34
34

MAADR3

MAC Address Byte 3 (MAADR<31:24>), OUI Byte 3

0000 0000

MAADR4

MAC Address Byte 4 (MAADR<23:16>)

0000 0000

34

MAADR1

MAC Address Byte 1 (MAADR<47:40>), OUI Byte 1

0000 0000

34

MAADR2

MAC Address Byte 2 (MAADR<39:32>), OUI Byte 2

0000 0000

34

EBSTSD

Built-in Self-Test Fill Seed (EBSTSD<7:0>)

0000 0000

76

EBSTCON

PSV2

PSV1

PSV0

PSEL

EBSTCSL
EBSTCSH

TMSEL1

TMSEL0

TME

BISTST

Built-in Self-Test Checksum High Byte (EBSTCS<15:8>)

75
76

0000 0000

MISTAT

—

—

—

EREVID(2)

—

—

—

ECOCON(3)

—

—

—

—

—

EFLOCON

—

—

—

—

—

—

0000 0000
0000 0000

Built-in Self-Test Checksum Low Byte (EBSTCS<7:0>)

r

76

SCAN

BUSY

---- 0000

21

---q qqqq

22

COCON2

COCON1

COCON0

---- -100

6

FULDPXS

FCEN1

FCEN0

---- -000

56

NVALID

Ethernet Revision ID (EREVID<4:0>)

EPAUSL

Pause Timer Value Low Byte (EPAUS<7:0>)

0000 0000

57

EPAUSH

Pause Timer Value High Byte (EPAUS<15:8>)

0001 0000

57

Legend:
Note 1:
2:
3:

x = unknown, u = unchanged, — = unimplemented, q = value depends on condition, r = reserved, do not modify.
CLKRDY resets to ‘0’ on Power-on Reset but is unaffected on all other Resets.
EREVID is a read-only register.
ECOCON resets to ‘---- -100’ on Power-on Reset and ‘---- -uuu’ on all other Resets.

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3.1.1

ECON1 REGISTER

The ECON1 register, shown in Register 3-1, is used to
control the main functions of the ENC28J60. Receive
enable, transmit request, DMA control and bank select
bits can all be found in ECON1.

REGISTER 3-1:

ECON1: ETHERNET CONTROL REGISTER 1

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

TXRST

RXRST

DMAST

CSUMEN

TXRTS

RXEN

BSEL1

BSEL0

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 7

TXRST: Transmit Logic Reset bit
1 = Transmit logic is held in Reset
0 = Normal operation

bit 6

RXRST: Receive Logic Reset bit
1 = Receive logic is held in Reset
0 = Normal operations

bit 5

DMAST: DMA Start and Busy Status bit
1 = DMA copy or checksum operation is in progress
0 = DMA hardware is Idle

bit 4

CSUMEN: DMA Checksum Enable bit
1 = DMA hardware calculates checksums
0 = DMA hardware copies buffer memory

bit 3

TXRTS: Transmit Request to Send bit
1 = The transmit logic is attempting to transmit a packet
0 = The transmit logic is Idle

bit 2

RXEN: Receive Enable bit
1 = Packets which pass the current filter configuration will be written into the receive buffer
0 = All packets received will be ignored

bit 1-0

BSEL1:BSEL0: Bank Select bits
11 = SPI accesses registers in Bank 3
10 = SPI accesses registers in Bank 2
01 = SPI accesses registers in Bank 1
00 = SPI accesses registers in Bank 0

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3.1.2

ECON2 REGISTER

The ECON2 register, shown in Register 3-2, is used to
control other main functions of the ENC28J60.

REGISTER 3-2:

ECON2: ETHERNET CONTROL REGISTER 2

R/W-0(1)

R/W-1
AUTOINC

PKTDEC

R/W-0
PWRSV

R/W-0

R/W-0

U-0

U-0

VRPS

r

U-0
—

—

—

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 7

AUTOINC: Automatic Buffer Pointer Increment Enable bit
1 = Automatically increment ERDPT or EWRPT on reading from or writing to EDATA
0 = Do not automatically change ERDPT and EWRPT after the buffer is accessed

bit 6

PKTDEC: Packet Decrement bit
1 = Decrement the EPKTCNT register by one
0 = Leave EPKTCNT unchanged

bit 5

PWRSV: Power Save Enable bit
1 = MAC, PHY and control logic are in Low-Power Sleep mode
0 = Normal operation

bit 4

Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’

bit 3

VRPS: Voltage Regulator Power Save Enable bit
When PWRSV = 1:
1 = Internal voltage regulator is in Low-Current mode
0 = Internal voltage regulator is in Normal Current mode
When PWRSV = 0:
The bit is ignored; the regulator always outputs as much current as the device requires.

bit 2-0

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

Note 1:

This bit is automatically cleared once it is set.

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3.2

3.2.2

Ethernet Buffer

The Ethernet buffer contains transmit and receive
memory used by the Ethernet controller. The entire
buffer is 8 Kbytes, divided into separate receive and
transmit buffer spaces. The sizes and locations of
transmit and receive memory are fully programmable
by the host controller using the SPI interface.
The relationship of the buffer spaces is shown in
Figure 3-2.

3.2.1

RECEIVE BUFFER

The receive buffer constitutes a circular FIFO buffer
managed by hardware. The register pairs
ERXSTH:ERXSTL and ERXNDH:ERXNDL serve as
Pointers to define the buffer’s size and location within
the memory. The byte pointed to by ERXST and the
byte pointed to by ERXND are both included in the
FIFO buffer.
As bytes of data are received from the Ethernet
interface, they are written into the receive buffer
sequentially. However, after the memory pointed to by
ERXND is written to, the hardware will automatically
write the next byte of received data to the memory
pointed to by ERXST. As a result, the receive hardware
will never write outside the boundaries of the FIFO.
The host controller may program the ERXST and
ERXND Pointers when the receive logic is not enabled.
The Pointers must not be modified while the receive
logic is enabled (ECON1.RXEN is set). If desired, the
Pointers may span the 1FFFh to 0000h memory
boundary; the hardware will still operate as a FIFO.
The ERXWRPTH:ERXWRPTL registers define a
location within the FIFO where the hardware will write
bytes that it receives. The Pointer is read-only and is
automatically updated by the hardware whenever a
new packet is successfully received. The Pointer is
useful for determining how much free space is
available within the FIFO.
The ERXRDPT registers define a location within the
FIFO where the receive hardware is forbidden to write
to. In normal operation, the receive hardware will write
data up to, but not including, the memory pointed to by
ERXRDPT. If the FIFO fills up with data and new data
continues to arrive, the hardware will not overwrite the
previously received data. Instead, the new data will be
thrown away and the old data will be preserved. In
order to continuously receive new data, the host controller must periodically advance this Pointer whenever
it finishes processing some, or all, of the old received
data.

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TRANSMIT BUFFER

Any space within the 8-Kbyte memory, which is not
programmed as part of the receive FIFO buffer, is
considered to be the transmit buffer. The responsibility
of managing where packets are located in the transmit
buffer belongs to the host controller. Whenever the host
controller decides to transmit a packet, the ETXST and
ETXND Pointers are programmed with addresses
specifying where, within the transmit buffer, the particular packet to transmit is located. The hardware does
not check that the start and end addresses do not
overlap with the receive buffer. To prevent buffer
corruption, the host controller must make sure to not
transmit a packet while the ETXST and ETXND
Pointers are overlapping the receive buffer, or while the
ETXND Pointer is too close to the receive buffer. See
Section 7.1 “Transmitting Packets” for more
information.

3.2.3

READING AND WRITING TO
THE BUFFER

The Ethernet buffer contents are accessed from the
host controller though separate Read and Write Pointers (ERDPT and EWRPT) combined with the read
buffer memory and write buffer memory SPI
commands. While sequentially reading from the
receive buffer, a wrapping condition will occur at the
end of the receive buffer. While sequentially writing to
the buffer, no wrapping conditions will occur. See
Section 4.2.2 “Read Buffer Memory Command” and
Section 4.2.4 “Write Buffer Memory Command” for
more information.

3.2.4

DMA ACCESS TO THE BUFFER

The integrated DMA controller must read from the buffer
when calculating a checksum and it must read and write
to the buffer when copying memory. The DMA follows
the same wrapping rules that SPI accesses do. While it
sequentially reads, it will be subject to a wrapping condition at the end of the receive buffer. All writes it does will
not be subject to any wrapping conditions. See
Section 13.0 “Direct Memory Access Controller” for
more information.

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FIGURE 3-2:

ETHERNET BUFFER ORGANIZATION

Transmit Buffer Start
(ETXSTH:ETXSTL)

0000h

Buffer Write Pointer
(EWRPTH:EWRPTL)

Transmit Buffer Data

AAh

(WBM AAh)

Transmit
Transmit Buffer End
(ETXNDH:ETXNDL)

Buffer

Receive Buffer Start
(ERXSTH:ERXSTL)

Receive
Buffer
(Circular FIFO)
Buffer Read Pointer
(ERDPTH:ERDPTL)

Receive Buffer Data
(RBM 55h)

55h

Receive Buffer End

1FFFh

(ERXNDH:ERXNDL)

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3.3

PHY Registers

To write to a PHY register:

The PHY registers provide configuration and control of
the PHY module, as well as status information about its
operation. All PHY registers are 16 bits in width. There
are a total of 32 PHY addresses; however, only 9 locations are implemented. Writes to unimplemented
locations are ignored and any attempts to read these
locations will return ‘0’. All reserved locations should be
written as ‘0’; their contents should be ignored when
read.

1.

Unlike the ETH, MAC and MII control registers, or the
buffer memory, the PHY registers are not directly
accessible through the SPI control interface. Instead,
access is accomplished through a special set of MAC
control registers that implement Media Independent
Interface Management (MIIM). These control registers
are referred to as the MII registers. The registers that
control access to the PHY registers are shown in
Register 3-3 and Register 3-4.

The PHY register will be written after the MIIM operation completes, which takes 10.24 μs. When the write
operation has completed, the BUSY bit will clear itself.
The host controller should not start any MIISCAN or
MIIRD operations while busy.

3.3.1

READING PHY REGISTERS

When a PHY register is read, the entire 16 bits are
obtained.

2.
3.

3.3.3

2.
3.

4.
5.

Write the address of the PHY register to read
from into the MIREGADR register.
Set the MICMD.MIIRD bit. The read operation
begins and the MISTAT.BUSY bit is set.
Wait 10.24 μs. Poll the MISTAT.BUSY bit to be
certain that the operation is complete. While
busy, the host controller should not start any
MIISCAN operations or write to the MIWRH
register.
When the MAC has obtained the register
contents, the BUSY bit will clear itself.
Clear the MICMD.MIIRD bit.
Read the desired data from the MIRDL and
MIRDH registers. The order that these bytes are
accessed is unimportant.

3.3.2

WRITING PHY REGISTERS

When a PHY register is written to, the entire 16 bits is
written at once; selective bit writes are not implemented. If it is necessary to reprogram only select bits
in the register, the controller must first read the PHY
register, modify the resulting data and then write the
data back to the PHY register.

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SCANNING A PHY REGISTER

The MAC can be configured to perform automatic
back-to-back read operations on a PHY register. This
can significantly reduce the host controller complexity
when periodic status information updates are desired.
To perform the scan operation:
1.

To read from a PHY register:
1.

Write the address of the PHY register to write to
into the MIREGADR register.
Write the lower 8 bits of data to write into the
MIWRL register.
Write the upper 8 bits of data to write into the
MIWRH register. Writing to this register automatically begins the MIIM transaction, so it must
be written to after MIWRL. The MISTAT.BUSY
bit becomes set.

2.

Write the address of the PHY register to read
from into the MIREGADR register.
Set the MICMD.MIISCAN bit. The scan operation begins and the MISTAT.BUSY bit is set. The
first read operation will complete after 10.24 μs.
Subsequent reads will be done at the same
interval until the operation is cancelled. The
MISTAT.NVALID bit may be polled to determine
when the first read operation is complete.

After setting the MIISCAN bit, the MIRDL and MIRDH
registers will automatically be updated every 10.24 μs.
There is no status information which can be used to
determine when the MIRD registers are updated. Since
the host controller can only read one MII register at a
time through the SPI, it must not be assumed that the
values of MIRDL and MIRDH were read from the PHY
at exactly the same time.
When the MIISCAN operation is in progress, the host
controller must not attempt to write to MIWRH or start
an MIIRD operation. The MIISCAN operation can be
cancelled by clearing the MICMD.MIISCAN bit and
then polling the MISTAT.BUSY bit. New operations may
be started after the BUSY bit is cleared.

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PHID2

PHCON2

PHSTAT2

PHIE

PHIR

PHLCON

03h

10h

11h

12h

13h

14h

Bit 14

—

PLOOPBK
PFDPX

—

—
—

Bit 12

Bit 13

FRCLNK

r

r

r

r

r

—

r

—

—

r

r

r

TXSTAT

TXDIS

Bit 11

r

PHDPX

PPWRSV

r

r

r
r

r

LSTAT

JABBER

—

r

Bit 10

LACFG3:LACFG0

r

r

RXSTAT COLSTAT

r

PHY Identifier (OUI19:OUI24) = 000101

PHY Identifier (OUI3:OUI18) = 0083h

—

PRST

Bit 15

ENC28J60 PHY REGISTER SUMMARY
Bit 7

—

HDLDIS

r

r

r

DPXSTAT(1)
r

—

r

r

r

—

r

—

—

Bit 6

LBCFG3:LBCFG0

r

r

—

r

—

r

Bit 8
PDPXMD(1)

PHY P/N (PPN5:PPN0) = 00h

—

—

Bit 9

r

r

PLRITY

r

—

—

Bit 5

PLNKIF

PLNKIE

—

r

—

—

Bit 4
—

Bit 1

LLSTAT JBSTAT

—

Bit 2

—

—

Bit 0

PGIF

r

—

r

LFRQ1:LFRQ0

r

r

—

r

STRCH

r

PGEIE

—

r

r

r

r

—

r

PHY Revision (PREV3:PREV0) = 00h

—

—

Bit 3

x = unknown, u = unchanged, — = unimplemented, q = value depends on condition, r = reserved, do not modify.
Reset values of the Duplex mode/status bits depend on the connection of the LED to the LEDB pin (see Section 2.6 “LED Configuration” for additional details).

PHID1

02h

Legend:
Note 1:

PHSTAT1

01h

Name

PHCON1

00h

Addr

TABLE 3-3:
Reset Values

0011 0100 0010 001x

xxxx xxxx xx00 00x0

0000 0000 0000 0000

--00 00q- --0- ----

-000 0000 0000 0000

0001 0100 0000 0000

0000 0000 1000 0011

---1 1--- ---- -00-

00-- 00-q 0--- ----

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REGISTER 3-3:

MICMD: MII COMMAND REGISTER

U-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

—

—

—

—

—

—

MIISCAN

MIIRD

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 7-2

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 1

MIISCAN: MII Scan Enable bit
1 = PHY register at MIREGADR is continuously read and the data is placed in MIRD
0 = No MII Management scan operation is in progress

bit 0

MIIRD: MII Read Enable bit
1 = PHY register at MIREGADR is read once and the data is placed in MIRD
0 = No MII Management read operation is in progress

REGISTER 3-4:

MISTAT: MII STATUS REGISTER

U-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

R-0

R-0

R-0

R-0

—

—

—

—

r

NVALID

SCAN

BUSY

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 7-4

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 3

Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’

bit 2

NVALID: MII Management Read Data Not Valid bit
1 = The contents of MIRD are not valid yet
0 = The MII Management read cycle has completed and MIRD has been updated

bit 1

SCAN: MII Management Scan Operation bit
1 = MII Management scan operation is in progress
0 = No MII Management scan operation is in progress

bit 0

BUSY: MII Management Busy bit
1 = A PHY register is currently being read or written to
0 = The MII Management interface is Idle

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3.3.4

PHSTAT REGISTERS

3.3.5

PHID1 AND PHID2 REGISTERS

The PHSTAT1 and PHSTAT2 registers contain readonly bits that show the current status of the PHY
module’s operations, particularly the conditions of the
communications link to the rest of the network.

The PHID1 and PHID2 registers are read-only
registers. They hold constant data that help identify the
Ethernet controller and may be useful for debugging
purposes. This includes:

The PHSTAT1 register (Register 3-5) contains the
LLSTAT bit; it clears and latches low if the physical
layer link has gone down since the last read of the
register. Periodic polling by the host controller can be
used to determine exactly when the link fails. It may be
particularly useful if the link change interrupt is not
used.

• The part number of the PHY module
(PPN5:PPN0)
• The revision level of the PHY module
(PREV3:PREV0); and
• The PHY Identifier, as part of Microchip’s
corporate Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI)
(OUI3:OUI24)

The PHSTAT1 register also contains a jabber status bit.
An Ethernet controller is said to be “jabbering” if it continuously transmits data without stopping and allowing
other nodes to share the medium. Generally, the jabber
condition indicates that the local controller may be
grossly violating the maximum packet size defined by
the IEEE specification. This bit latches high to indicate
that a jabber condition has occurred since the last read
of the register.

The PHY part number and revision are part of PHID2.
The upper two bytes of the PHY identifier are located in
PHID1, with the remainder in PHID2. The exact
locations within registers are shown in Table 3-3.

The PHSTAT2 register (Register 3-6) contains status
bits which report if the PHY module is linked to the
network and whether or not it is transmitting or
receiving.

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The 22 bits of the OUI contained in the PHY Identifier
(OUI3:OUI24, corresponding to PHID1<15:0> and
PHID2<15:10>) are concatenated with ‘00’ as the first
two digits (OUI1 and OUI2) to generate the entire OUI.
For convenience, this 24-bit string is usually interpreted
in hexadecimal; the resulting OUI for Microchip Technology is 0004A3h.
Revision information is also stored in EREVID. This is
a read-only control register which contains a 5-bit
identifier for the specific silicon revision level of the
device. Details of this register are shown in Table 3-2.

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REGISTER 3-5:

PHSTAT1: PHYSICAL LAYER STATUS REGISTER 1

U-0

U-0

U-0

R-1

R-1

U-0

U-0

U-0

—

—

—

PFDPX

PHDPX

—

—

—

bit 15

bit 8

U-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

R/LL-0

R/LH-0

U-0

—

—

—

—

—

LLSTAT

JBSTAT

—

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:

‘1’ = Bit is set

R = Read-only bit

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

R/L = Read-only latch bit

LL = Bit latches low

LH = Bit latches high

bit 15-13

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 12

PFDPX: PHY Full-Duplex Capable bit
1 = PHY is capable of operating at 10 Mbps in Full-Duplex mode (this bit is always set)

bit 11

PHDPX: PHY Half-Duplex Capable bit
1 = PHY is capable of operating at 10 Mbps in Half-Duplex mode (this bit is always set)

bit 10-3

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 2

LLSTAT: PHY Latching Link Status bit
1 = Link is up and has been up continously since PHSTAT1 was last read
0 = Link is down or was down for a period since PHSTAT1 was last read

bit 1

JBSTAT: PHY Latching Jabber Status bit
1 = PHY has detected a transmission meeting the jabber criteria since PHSTAT1 was last read
0 = PHY has not detected any jabbering transmissions since PHSTAT1 was last read

bit 0

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

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REGISTER 3-6:

PHSTAT2: PHYSICAL LAYER STATUS REGISTER 2

U-0

U-0

R-0

R-0

R-0

R-0

R-x

U-0

—

—

TXSTAT

RXSTAT

COLSTAT

LSTAT

DPXSTAT(1)

—

bit 15

bit 8

U-0

U-0

R-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

—

—

PLRITY

—

—

—

—

—

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

bit 15-14

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 13

TXSTAT: PHY Transmit Status bit
1 = PHY is transmitting data
0 = PHY is not transmitting data

bit 12

RXSTAT: PHY Receive Status bit
1 = PHY is receiving data
0 = PHY is not receiving data

bit 11

COLSTAT: PHY Collision Status bit
1 = A collision is occuring
0 = A collision is not occuring

bit 10

LSTAT: PHY Link Status bit (non-latching)
1 = Link is up
0 = Link is down

bit 9

DPXSTAT: PHY Duplex Status bit(1)
1 = PHY is configured for full-duplex operation (PHCON1<8> is set)
0 = PHY is configured for half-duplex operation (PHCON1<8> is clear)

bit 8-6

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 5

PLRITY: Polarity Status bit
1 = The polarity of the signal on TPIN+/TPIN- is reversed
0 = The polarity of the signal on TPIN+/TPIN- is correct

bit 4-0

x = Bit is unknown

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

Note 1:

Reset values of the Duplex mode/status bit depends on the connection of the LED to the LEDB pin (see
Section 2.6 “LED Configuration” for additional details).

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4.0

SERIAL PERIPHERAL
INTERFACE (SPI)

4.1

Overview

The ENC28J60 is designed to interface directly with the
Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) port available on many
microcontrollers. The implementation used on this
device supports SPI mode 0,0 only. In addition, the SPI
port requires that SCK be at Idle in a low state;
selectable clock polarity is not supported.

FIGURE 4-1:

Commands and data are sent to the device via the SI
pin, with data being clocked in on the rising edge of
SCK. Data is driven out by the ENC28J60 on the SO
line, on the falling edge of SCK. The CS pin must be
held low while any operation is performed and returned
high when finished.

SPI INPUT TIMING

CS

SCK

SI
MSb In

High-Impedance State

SO

FIGURE 4-2:

LSb In

SPI OUTPUT TIMING

CS

SCK

SO

MSb Out

SI

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4.2

SPI Instruction Set

followed by a 5-bit argument that specifies either a
register address or a data constant. Write and bit field
instructions are also followed by one or more bytes of
data.

The operation of the ENC28J60 depends entirely on
commands given by an external host controller over the
SPI interface. These commands take the form of
instructions, of one or more bytes, which are used to
access the control memory and Ethernet buffer spaces.
At the least, instructions consist of a 3-bit opcode,

TABLE 4-1:

A total of seven instructions are implemented on the
ENC28J60. Table 4-1 shows the command codes for
all operations.

SPI INSTRUCTION SET FOR THE ENC28J60

Instruction
Name and Mnemonic

Byte 0
Opcode

Byte 1 and Following

Argument

Data

Read Control Register
(RCR)

0

0

0

a

a

a

a

a

N/A

Read Buffer Memory
(RBM)

0

0

1

1

1

0

1

0

N/A

Write Control Register
(WCR)

0

1

0

a

a

a

a

a

d

d

d

d

d

d

d

d

Write Buffer Memory
(WBM)

0

1

1

1

1

0

1

0

d

d

d

d

d

d

d

d

Bit Field Set
(BFS)

1

0

0

a

a

a

a

a

d

d

d

d

d

d

d

d

Bit Field Clear
(BFC)

1

0

1

a

a

a

a

a

d

d

d

d

d

d

d

d

System Reset Command (Soft Reset)
(SRC)

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

N/A

Legend: a = control register address, d = data payload.

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4.2.1

READ CONTROL REGISTER
COMMAND

registers in the current bank. If the 5-bit address is an
ETH register, then data in the selected register will
immediately start shifting out MSb first on the SO pin.
Figure 4-3 shows the read sequence for these
registers.

The Read Control Register (RCR) command allows the
host controller to read any of the ETH, MAC and MII
registers in any order. The contents of the PHY registers are read via a special MII register interface (see
Section 3.3.1 “Reading PHY Registers” for more
information).

If the address specifies one of the MAC or MII registers,
a dummy byte will first be shifted out the SO pin. After
the dummy byte, the data will be shifted out MSb first
on the SO pin. The RCR operation is terminated by
raising the CS pin. Figure 4-4 shows the read
sequence for MAC and MII registers.

The RCR command is started by pulling the CS pin low.
The RCR opcode is then sent to the ENC28J60,
followed by a 5-bit register address (A4 through A0).
The 5-bit address identifies any of the 32 control

FIGURE 4-3:

READ CONTROL REGISTER COMMAND SEQUENCE (ETH REGISTERS)

CS
0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

SCK
Opcode
SI

0

0

Address
4

0

3

2

1

0
Data Out

High-Impedance State
7

SO

FIGURE 4-4:

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

READ CONTROL REGISTER COMMAND SEQUENCE
(MAC AND MII REGISTERS)

CS
0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

SCK
Opcode
SI

0

0

0

Address
4

3

2

1

0
Dummy Byte

High-Impedance State
SO

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6

5

4

3

2

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Data Byte Out
1

0

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

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4.2.2

READ BUFFER MEMORY
COMMAND

4.2.3

The Read Buffer Memory (RBM) command allows the
host controller to read bytes from the integrated 8-Kbyte
transmit and receive buffer memory.

The Write Control Register (WCR) command allows
the host controller to write to any of the ETH, MAC and
MII Control registers in any order. The PHY registers
are written to via a special MII register interface (see
Section 3.3.2 “Writing PHY Registers” for more
information).

If the AUTOINC bit in the ECON2 register is set, the
ERDPT Pointer will automatically increment to point to
the next address after the last bit of each byte is read.
The next address will normally be the current address
incremented by one. However, if the last byte in the
receive buffer is read (ERDPT = ERXND), the ERDPT
Pointer will change to the beginning of the receive
buffer (ERXST). This allows the host controller to read
packets from the receive buffer in a continuous stream
without keeping track of when a wraparound is needed.
If AUTOINC is set when address 1FFFh is read and
ERXND does not point to this address, the Read
Pointer will increment and wrap around to 0000h.

The WCR command is started by pulling the CS pin
low. The WCR opcode is then sent to the ENC28J60,
followed by a 5-bit address (A4 through A0). The 5-bit
address identifies any of the 32 control registers in the
current bank. After the WCR command and address
are sent, actual data that is to be written is sent, MSb
first. The data will be written to the addressed register
on the rising edge of the SCK line.
The WCR operation is terminated by raising the CS pin.
If the CS line is allowed to go high before eight bits are
loaded, the write will be aborted for that data byte.
Refer to the timing diagram in Figure 4-5 for a more
detailed illustration of the byte write sequence.

The RBM command is started by pulling the CS pin low.
The RBM opcode is then sent to the ENC28J60,
followed by the 5-bit constant 1Ah. After the RBM command and constant are sent, the data stored in the
memory pointed to by ERDPT will be shifted out MSb
first on the SO pin. If the host controller continues to
provide clocks on the SCK pin, without raising CS, the
byte pointed to by ERDPT will again be shifted out MSb
first on the SO pin. In this manner, with AUTOINC
enabled, it is possible to continuously read sequential
bytes from the buffer memory without any extra SPI
command overhead. The RBM command is terminated
by raising the CS pin.

FIGURE 4-5:

WRITE CONTROL REGISTER
COMMAND

WRITE CONTROL REGISTER COMMAND SEQUENCE

CS
0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

SCK
Address

Opcode
SI

0

1

0

A4

3

2

Data Byte
1

0

D7

6

5

4

3

2

1

D0

High-Impedance State
SO

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4.2.4

WRITE BUFFER MEMORY
COMMAND

any of the ETH registers in the current bank. After the
BFS command and address are sent, the data byte
containing the bit field set information should be sent,
MSb first. The supplied data will be logically ORed to
the content of the addressed register on the rising
edge of the SCK line for the D0 bit.

The Write Buffer Memory (WBM) command allows the
host controller to write bytes to the integrated 8-Kbyte
transmit and receive buffer memory.
If the AUTOINC bit in the ECON2 register is set, after
the last bit of each byte is written, the EWRPT Pointer
will automatically be incremented to point to the next
sequential address (current address + 1). If address
1FFFh is written with AUTOINC set, the Write Pointer
will increment to 0000h.

If the CS line is brought high before eight bits are
loaded, the operation will be aborted for that data
byte. The BFS operation is terminated by raising the
CS pin.

4.2.6

The WBM command is started by lowering the CS pin.
The WBM opcode should then be sent to the
ENC28J60, followed by the 5-bit constant 1Ah. After
the WBM command and constant are sent, the data to
be stored in the memory pointed to by EWRPT should
be shifted out MSb first to the ENC28J60. After 8 data
bits are received, the Write Pointer will automatically
increment if AUTOINC is set. The host controller can
continue to provide clocks on the SCK pin and send
data on the SI pin, without raising CS, to keep writing to
the memory. In this manner, with AUTOINC enabled, it
is possible to continuously write sequential bytes to the
buffer memory without any extra SPI command
overhead.

The BFC command is started by lowering the CS pin.
The BFC opcode should then be sent, followed by a
5-bit address (A4 through A0). The 5-bit address
identifies any of the ETH registers in the current bank.
After the BFC command and address are sent, a data
byte containing the bit field clear information should
be sent, MSb first. The supplied data will be logically
inverted and subsequently ANDed to the contents of
the addressed register on the rising edge of the SCK
line for the D0 bit.

The WBM command is terminated by bringing up the
CS pin. Refer to Figure 4-6 for a detailed illustration of
the write sequence.

4.2.5

BIT FIELD CLEAR COMMAND

The Bit Field Clear (BFC) command is used to clear up
to 8 bits in any of the ETH Control registers. Note that
this command cannot be used on the MAC registers,
MII registers, PHY registers or buffer memory. The BFC
command uses the provided data byte to perform a bitwise NOTAND operation on the addressed register
contents. As an example, if a register had the contents
of F1h and the BFC command was executed with an
operand of 17h, then the register would be changed to
have the contents of E0h.

BIT FIELD SET COMMAND

The Bit Field Set (BFS) command is used to set up to
8 bits in any of the ETH Control registers. Note that this
command cannot be used on the MAC registers, MII
registers, PHY registers or buffer memory. The BFS command uses the provided data byte to perform a bit-wise
OR operation on the addressed register contents.

The BFC operation is terminated by bringing the CS
pin high. If CS is brought high before eight bits are
loaded, the operation will be aborted for that data
byte.

The BFS command is started by pulling the CS pin low.
The BFS opcode is then sent, followed by a 5-bit
address (A4 through A0). The 5-bit address identifies

FIGURE 4-6:

WRITE BUFFER MEMORY COMMAND SEQUENCE

CS
0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

SCK
Opcode
SI

0

1

1

Address
1

1

SO

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0

1

Data Byte 0
0

7

6

5

4

3

Data Byte 1
2

1

D0

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

High-Impedance State

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4.2.7

SYSTEM RESET COMMAND

The command is started by pulling the CS pin low. The
SRC opcode is the sent, followed by a 5-bit Soft Reset
command constant of 1Fh. The SRC operation is terminated by raising the CS pin.

The System Reset Command (SRC) allows the host
controller to issue a System Soft Reset command.
Unlike other SPI commands, the SRC is only a singlebyte command and does not operate on any register.

FIGURE 4-7:

Figure 4-7 shows a detailed illustration of the System
Reset Command sequence. For more information on
SRC’s Soft Reset, refer to Section 11.2 “System
Reset”.

SYSTEM RESET COMMAND SEQUENCE

CS

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

SCK
Opcode
SI

SO

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1

1

Data Constant (1Fh)
1

1

1

1

1

1

High-Impedance State

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5.0

ETHERNET OVERVIEW

5.1.1

Before discussing the use of the ENC28J60 as an
Ethernet interface, it may be helpful to review the
structure of a typical data frame. Users requiring more
information should refer to IEEE Standard 802.3 which
is the basis for the Ethernet protocol.

5.1

Packet Format

Normal IEEE 802.3 compliant Ethernet frames are
between 64 and 1518 bytes long. They are made up of
five or six different fields: a destination MAC address, a
source MAC address, a type/length field, data payload,
an optional padding field and a Cyclic Redundancy
Check (CRC). Additionally, when transmitted on the
Ethernet medium, a 7-byte preamble field and start-offrame delimiter byte are appended to the beginning of
the Ethernet packet. Thus, traffic seen on the twisted
pair cabling will appear as shown in Figure 5-1.

FIGURE 5-1:

PREAMBLE/START-OF-FRAME
DELIMITER

When transmitting and receiving data with the
ENC28J60, the preamble and start of frame delimiter
bytes will automatically be generated or stripped from
the packets when they are transmitted or received. The
host controller does not need to concern itself with
them. Normally, the host controller will also not need to
concern itself with padding and the CRC which the
ENC28J60 will also be able to automatically generate
when transmitting and verify when receiving. The
padding and CRC fields will, however, be written into
the receive buffer when packets arrive, so they may be
evaluated by the host controller if needed.

ETHERNET PACKET FORMAT
Number
of Bytes

Field

Comments

7

Preamble

Filtered out by the Module

1

SFD

Start-of-Frame Delimiter
(filtered out by the module)

6

DA

Destination Address,
such as Multicast, Broadcast or Unicast

6

SA

Source Address

2

Type/Length

Type of Packet or the Length of the Packet

Used in the
Calculation
of the FCS
Data
Packet Payload
(with optional padding)

46-1500

Padding

4

Note 1:

FCS(1)

Frame Check Sequence – CRC

The FCS is transmitted starting with bit 31 and ending with bit 0.

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5.1.2

DESTINATION ADDRESS

5.1.5

The destination address field is a 6-byte field filled with
the MAC address of the device that the packet is directed
to. If the Least Significant bit in the first byte of the MAC
address is set, the address is a multicast destination. For
example, 01-00-00-00-F0-00 and 33-45-67-89-AB-CD
are multicast addresses, while 00-00-00-00-F0-00 and
32-45-67-89-AB-CD are not.
Packets with multicast destination addresses are
designed to arrive and be important to a selected group
of Ethernet nodes. If the destination address field is the
reserved multicast address, FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF, the
packet is a broadcast packet and it will be directed to
everyone sharing the network. If the Least Significant
bit in the first byte of the MAC address is clear, the
address is a unicast address and will be designed for
usage by only the addressed node.
The ENC28J60 incorporates receive filters which can
be used to discard or accept packets with multicast,
broadcast and/or unicast destination addresses. When
transmitting packets, the host controller is responsible
for writing the desired destination address into the
transmit buffer.

5.1.3

SOURCE ADDRESS

The source address field is a 6-byte field filled with the
MAC address of the node which created the Ethernet
packet. Users of the ENC28J60 must generate a
unique MAC address for each controller used.
MAC addresses consist of two portions. The first three
bytes are known as the Organizationally Unique
Identifier (OUI). OUIs are distributed by the IEEE. The
last three bytes are address bytes at the discretion of
the company that purchased the OUI.
When transmitting packets, the assigned source MAC
address must be written into the transmit buffer by the
host controller. The ENC28J60 will not automatically
transmit the contents of the MAADR registers which
are used for the unicast receive filter.

5.1.4

TYPE/LENGTH

The type/length field is a 2-byte field which defines
which protocol the following packet data belongs to.
Alternately, if the field is filled with the contents of
05DCh (1500) or any smaller number, the field is
considered a length field and it specifies the amount of
non-padding data which follows in the data field. Users
implementing proprietary networks may choose to treat
this field as a length field, while applications implementing protocols such as the Internet Protocol (IP) or
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), should program
this field with the appropriate type defined by the
protocol’s specification when transmitting packets.

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DATA

The data field is a variable length field anywhere from 0
to 1500 bytes. Larger data packets will violate Ethernet
standards and will be dropped by most Ethernet nodes.
The ENC28J60, however, is capable of transmitting and
receiving larger packets when the Huge Frame Enable
bit is set (MACON3.HFRMEN = 1).

5.1.6

PADDING

The padding field is a variable length field added to
meet IEEE 802.3 specification requirements when
small data payloads are used. The destination, source,
type, data and padding of an Ethernet packet must be
no smaller than 60 bytes. Adding the required 4-byte
CRC field, packets must be no smaller than 64 bytes. If
the data field is less than 46 bytes long, a padding field
is required.
When transmitting packets, the ENC28J60 automatically
generates zero padding if the MACON3.PADCFG<2:0>
bits are configured to do so. Otherwise, the host controller should manually add padding to the packet before
transmitting it. The ENC28J60 will not prevent the
transmission of undersize packets should the host
controller command such an action.
When receiving packets, the ENC28J60 automatically
rejects packets which are less than 18 bytes; it is
assumed that a packet this small does not contain even
the minimum of source and destination addresses, type
information and FCS checksum required for all packets. All packets 18 bytes and larger will be subject to
the standard receive filtering criteria and may be
accepted as normal traffic. To conform with IEEE 802.3
requirements, the application itself will need to inspect
all received packets and reject those smaller than 64
bytes.

5.1.7

CRC

The CRC field is a 4-byte field which contains an industry standard 32-bit CRC calculated with the data from
the destination, source, type, data and padding fields.
When receiving packets, the ENC28J60 will check the
CRC of each incoming packet. If ERXFCON.CRCEN is
set, packets with invalid CRCs will automatically be
discarded. If CRCEN is clear and the packet meets all
other receive filtering criteria, the packet will be written
into the receive buffer and the host controller will be
able to determine if the CRC was valid by reading the
receive status vector (see Section 7.2 “Receiving
Packets”).
When transmitting packets, the ENC28J60 will automatically generate a valid CRC and transmit it if the
MACON3.PADCFG<2:0> bits are configured to cause
this. Otherwise, the host controller must generate the
CRC and place it in the transmit buffer. Given the complexity of calculating a CRC, it is highly recommended
that the PADCFG bits be configured such that the
ENC28J60 will automatically generate the CRC field.

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6.0

INITIALIZATION

6.2

Before the ENC28J60 can be used to transmit and
receive packets, certain device settings must be initialized. Depending on the application, some configuration
options may need to be changed. Normally, these tasks
may be accomplished once after Reset and do not
need to be changed thereafter.

6.1

Receive Buffer

Before receiving any packets, the receive buffer must
be initialized by programming the ERXST and ERXND
Pointers. All memory between and including the
ERXST and ERXND addresses will be dedicated to the
receive hardware. It is recommended that the ERXST
Pointer be programmed with an even address.
Applications expecting large amounts of data and
frequent packet delivery may wish to allocate most of
the memory as the receive buffer. Applications that
may need to save older packets or have several
packets ready for transmission should allocate less
memory.
When programming the ERXST or ERXND Pointer, the
internal hardware copy of the ERXWRPT registers will
automatically be updated with the value of ERXST. This
value will be used as the starting location when the
receive hardware begins writing received data. The
ERXWRPT registers are updated by the hardware only
when a new packet is successfully received.
Note:

Transmission Buffer

All memory which is not used by the receive buffer is
considered the transmission buffer. Data which is to be
transmitted should be written into any unused space.
After a packet is transmitted, however, the hardware
will write a seven-byte status vector into memory after
the last byte in the packet. Therefore, the host controller should leave at least seven bytes between each
packet and the beginning of the receive buffer. No
explicit action is required to initialize the transmission
buffer.

6.3

Receive Filters

The appropriate receive filters should be enabled or
disabled by writing to the ERXFCON register. See
Section 8.0 “Receive Filters” for information on how
to configure it.

6.4

Waiting For OST

If the initialization procedure is being executed immediately following a Power-on Reset, the ESTAT.CLKRDY
bit should be polled to make certain that enough time
has elapsed before proceeding to modify the MAC and
PHY registers. For more information on the OST, see
Section 2.2 “Oscillator Start-up Timer”.

After writing to ERXST or ERXND, the
ERXWRPT registers are not updated
immediately; only the internal hardware
copy of the ERXWRPT registers is
updated.
Therefore,
comparing
if
(ERXWRPT = = ERXST) is not practical in
a firmware initialization routine.

For tracking purposes, the ERXRDPT registers should
additionally be programmed with the same value. To
program ERXRDPT, the host controller must write to
ERXRDPTL first, followed by ERXRDPTH. See
Section 7.2.4 “Freeing Receive Buffer Space” for
more information.

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6.5

MAC Initialization Settings

4.

Several of the MAC registers require configuration
during initialization. This only needs to be done once;
the order of programming is unimportant.
1.

2.

3.

Set the MARXEN bit in MACON1 to enable the
MAC to receive frames. If using full duplex, most
applications should also set TXPAUS and
RXPAUS to allow IEEE defined flow control to
function.
Configure the PADCFG, TXCRCEN and
FULDPX bits of MACON3. Most applications
should enable automatic padding to at least
60 bytes and always append a valid CRC. For
convenience, many applications may wish to set
the FRMLNEN bit as well to enable frame length
status reporting. The FULDPX bit should be set
if the application will be connected to a
full-duplex configured remote node; otherwise, it
should be left clear.
Configure the bits in MACON4. For conformance to the IEEE 802.3 standard, set the
DEFER bit.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

REGISTER 6-1:

Program the MAMXFL registers with the maximum frame length to be permitted to be received
or transmitted. Normal network nodes are
designed to handle packets that are 1518 bytes
or less.
Configure the Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap
register, MABBIPG. Most applications will program this register with 15h when Full-Duplex
mode is used and 12h when Half-Duplex mode
is used.
Configure the Non-Back-to-Back Inter-Packet
Gap register low byte, MAIPGL. Most applications
will program this register with 12h.
If half duplex is used, the Non-Back-to-Back
Inter-Packet Gap register high byte, MAIPGH,
should be programmed. Most applications will
program this register to 0Ch.
If Half-Duplex mode is used, program the
Retransmission and Collision Window registers,
MACLCON1 and MACLCON2. Most applications
will not need to change the default Reset values.
If the network is spread over exceptionally long
cables, the default value of MACLCON2 may
need to be increased.
Program the local MAC address into the
MAADR1:MAADR6 registers.

MACON1: MAC CONTROL REGISTER 1

U-0

U-0

U-0

R-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

—

—

—

r

TXPAUS

RXPAUS

PASSALL

MARXEN

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 7-5

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 4

Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’

bit 3

TXPAUS: Pause Control Frame Transmission Enable bit
1 = Allow the MAC to transmit pause control frames (needed for flow control in full duplex)
0 = Disallow pause frame transmissions

bit 2

RXPAUS: Pause Control Frame Reception Enable bit
1 = Inhibit transmissions when pause control frames are received (normal operation)
0 = Ignore pause control frames which are received

bit 1

PASSALL: Pass All Received Frames Enable bit
1 = Control frames received by the MAC will be written into the receive buffer if not filtered out
0 = Control frames will be discarded after being processed by the MAC (normal operation)

bit 0

MARXEN: MAC Receive Enable bit
1 = Enable packets to be received by the MAC
0 = Disable packet reception

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MACON3: MAC CONTROL REGISTER 3

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

PADCFG2

PADCFG1

PADCFG0

TXCRCEN

PHDREN

HFRMEN

FRMLNEN

FULDPX

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 7-5

PADCFG2:PADCFG0: Automatic Pad and CRC Configuration bits
111 = All short frames will be zero padded to 64 bytes and a valid CRC will then be appended
110 = No automatic padding of short frames
101 = MAC will automatically detect VLAN Protocol frames which have a 8100h type field and automatically pad to 64 bytes. If the frame is not a VLAN frame, it will be padded to 60 bytes. After
padding, a valid CRC will be appended.
100 = No automatic padding of short frames
011 = All short frames will be zero padded to 64 bytes and a valid CRC will then be appended
010 = No automatic padding of short frames
001 = All short frames will be zero padded to 60 bytes and a valid CRC will then be appended
000 = No automatic padding of short frames

bit 4

TXCRCEN: Transmit CRC Enable bit
1 = MAC will apend a valid CRC to all frames transmitted regardless of PADCFG. TXCRCEN must be
set if PADCFG specifies that a valid CRC will be appended.
0 = MAC will not append a CRC. The last 4 bytes will be checked and if it is an invalid CRC, it will be
reported in the transmit status vector.

bit 3

PHDREN: Proprietary Header Enable bit
1 = Frames presented to the MAC contain a 4-byte proprietary header which will not be used when
calculating the CRC
0 = No proprietary header is present. The CRC will cover all data (normal operation).

bit 2

HFRMEN: Huge Frame Enable bit
1 = Frames of any size will be allowed to be transmitted and receieved
0 = Frames bigger than MAMXFL will be aborted when transmitted or received

bit 1

FRMLNEN: Frame Length Checking Enable bit
1 = The type/length field of transmitted and received frames will be checked. If it represents a length, the
frame size will be compared and mismatches will be reported in the transmit/receive status vector.
0 = Frame lengths will not be compared with the type/length field

bit 0

FULDPX: MAC Full-Duplex Enable bit
1 = MAC will operate in Full-Duplex mode. PDPXMD bit must also be set.
0 = MAC will operate in Half-Duplex mode. PDPXMD bit must also be clear.

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REGISTER 6-3:

MACON4: MAC CONTROL REGISTER 4

U-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

U-0

U-0

R-0

R-0

—

DEFER

BPEN

NOBKOFF

—

—

r

r

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 7

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 6

DEFER: Defer Transmission Enable bit (applies to half duplex only)
1 = When the medium is occupied, the MAC will wait indefinitely for it to become free when attempting
to transmit (use this setting for 802.3 compliance)
0 = When the medium is occupied, the MAC will abort the transmission after the excessive deferral
limit is reached

bit 5

BPEN: No Backoff During Backpressure Enable bit (applies to half duplex only)
1 = After incidentally causing a collision during backpressure, the MAC will immediately begin
retransmitting
0 = After incidentally causing a collision during backpressure, the MAC will delay using the Binary
Exponential Backoff algorithm before attempting to retransmit (normal operation)

bit 4

NOBKOFF: No Backoff Enable bit (applies to half duplex only)
1 = After any collision, the MAC will immediately begin retransmitting
0 = After any collision, the MAC will delay using the Binary Exponential Backoff algorithm before
attempting to retransmit (normal operation)

bit 3-2

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 1-0

Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’

REGISTER 6-4:

MABBIPG: MAC BACK-TO-BACK INTER-PACKET GAP REGISTER

U-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

—

BBIPG6

BBIPG5

BBIPG4

BBIPG3

BBIPG2

BBIPG1

BBIPG0

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 7

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 6-0

BBIPG6:BBIPG0: Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap Delay Time bits
When FULDPX (MACON3<0>) = 1:
Nibble time offset delay between the end of one transmission and the beginning of the next in a
back-to-back sequence. The register value should be programmed to the desired period in nibble times
minus 3. The recommended setting is 15h which represents the minimum IEEE specified Inter-Packet
Gap (IPG) of 9.6 μs.
When FULDPX (MACON3<0>) = 0:
Nibble time offset delay between the end of one transmission and the beginning of the next in a
back-to-back sequence. The register value should be programmed to the desired period in nibble times
minus 6. The recommended setting is 12h which represents the minimum IEEE specified Inter-Packet
Gap (IPG) of 9.6 μs.

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6.6

PHY Initialization Settings

Depending on the application, bits in three of the PHY
module’s registers may also require configuration.
The PHCON1.PDPXMD bit partially controls the
device’s half/full-duplex configuration. Normally, this bit
is initialized correctly by the external circuitry (see
Section 2.6 “LED Configuration”). If the external
circuitry is not present or incorrect, however, the host
controller must program the bit properly. Alternatively,
for an externally configurable system, the PDPXMD bit
may be read and the FULDPX bit be programmed to
match.

If using half duplex, the host controller may wish to set
the PHCON2.HDLDIS bit to prevent automatic
loopback of the data which is transmitted.
The PHY register, PHLCON, controls the outputs of
LEDA and LEDB. If an application requires a LED
configuration other than the default, PHLCON must be
altered to match the new requirements. The settings for
LED operation are discussed in Section 2.6 “LED
Configuration”. The PHLCON register is shown in
Register 2-2 (page 9).

For proper duplex operation, the PHCON1.PDPXMD
bit must also match the value of the MACON3.FULDPX
bit.

REGISTER 6-5:

PHCON2: PHY CONTROL REGISTER 2

U-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

—

FRCLNK

TXDIS

r

r

JABBER

r

HDLDIS

bit 15

bit 8

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

r

r

r

r

r

r

r

r

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 15

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 14

FRCLNK: PHY Force Linkup bit
1 = Force linkup even when no link partner is detected
0 = Normal operation

bit 13

TXDIS: Twisted-Pair Transmitter Disable bit
1 = Disable twisted-pair transmitter
0 = Normal operation

bit 12-11

Reserved: Write as ‘0’

bit 10

JABBER: Jabber Correction Disable bit
1 = Disable jabber correction
0 = Normal operation

bit 9

Reserved: Write as ‘0’

bit 8

HDLDIS: PHY Half-Duplex Loopback Disable bit
When PHCON1<8> = 1 or PHCON1<14> = 1:
This bit is ignored.
When PHCON1<8> = 0 and PHCON1<14> = 0:
1 = Transmitted data will only be sent out on the twisted-pair interface
0 = Transmitted data will be looped back to the MAC and sent out on the twisted-pair interface

bit 7-0

Reserved: Write as ‘0’

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7.0

TRANSMITTING AND
RECEIVING PACKETS

7.1

Transmitting Packets

The MAC inside the ENC28J60 will automatically generate the preamble and start-of-frame delimiter fields when
transmitting. Additionally, the MAC can generate any
padding (if needed) and the CRC if configured to do so.
The host controller must generate and write all other
frame fields into the buffer memory for transmission.

FIGURE 7-1:

Additionally, the ENC28J60 requires a single per packet
control byte to precede the packet for transmission. The
per packet control byte is organized as shown in
Figure 7-1. Before transmitting packets, the MAC
registers which alter the transmission characteristics
should be initialized as documented in Section 6.0
“Initialization”.
For an example of how the entire transmit packet and
results will look in memory, see Figure 7-2.

FORMAT FOR PER PACKET CONTROL BYTES

—

—

—

—

PHUGEEN

PPADEN

PCRCEN

bit 7

POVERRIDE
bit 0

bit 7-4

Unused

bit 3

PHUGEEN: Per Packet Huge Frame Enable bit
When POVERRIDE = 1:
1 = The packet will be transmitted in whole
0 = The MAC will transmit up to the number of bytes specified by MAMXFL. If the packet is larger
than MAMXFL, it will be aborted after MAMXFL is reached.
When POVERRIDE = 0:
This bit is ignored.

bit 2

PPADEN: Per Packet Padding Enable bit
When POVERRIDE = 1:
1 = The packet will be zero padded to 60 bytes if it is less than 60 bytes
0 = The packet will be trasmitted without adding any padding bytes
When POVERRIDE = 0:
This bit is ignored.

bit 1

PCRCEN: Per Packet CRC Enable bit
When POVERRIDE = 1:
1 = A valid CRC will be calculated and attached to the frame
0 = No CRC will be appended. The last 4 bytes of the frame will be checked for validity as a
CRC.
When POVERRIDE = 0:
This bit is ignored.

bit 0

POVERRIDE: Per Packet Override bit
1 = The values of PCRCEN, PPADEN and PHUGEEN will override the configuration defined by
MACON3
0 = The values in MACON3 will be used to determine how the packet will be transmitted

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FIGURE 7-2:

SAMPLE TRANSMIT PACKET LAYOUT

Buffer Pointers

Address

Memory

ETXST = 0120h

0120h
0121h

0Eh
data[1]

0122h

data[2]

Description

Control

PHUGEEN, PPADN,
PCRCEN and POVERRIDE

Data Packet

ETXND = 0156h

0156h
0157h
0158h
0159h
016Ah
016Bh
016Ch
016Dh
016Eh

Destination Address,
Source Address,
Type/Length and Data

Status Vector

Status Vector
Written by the Hardware

data[m]
tsv[7:0]
tsv[15:8]
tsv[23:16]
tsv[31:24]
tsv[39:32]
tsv[47:40]
tsv[55:48]

Start of the Next Packet

To achieve the example layout shown in Figure 7-2 and
to transmit a packet, the host controller should:
1.

2.

3.

4.
5.

Appropriately program the ETXST Pointer to
point to an unused location in memory. It will
point to the per packet control byte. In the
example, it would be programmed to 0120h. It is
recommended that an even address be used for
ETXST.
Use the WBM SPI command to write the per
packet control byte, the destination address, the
source MAC address, the type/length and the
data payload.
Appropriately program the ETXND Pointer. It
should point to the last byte in the data payload.
In the example, it would be programmed to
0156h.
Clear EIR.TXIF, set EIE.TXIE and set EIE.INTIE
to enable an interrupt when done (if desired).
Start the transmission process by setting
ECON1.TXRTS.

If a DMA operation was in progress while the TXRTS bit
was set, the ENC28J60 will wait until the DMA operation is complete before attempting to transmit the
packet. This possible delay is required because the

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DMA and transmission engine share the same memory
access port. Similarly, if the DMAST bit in ECON1 is set
after TXRTS is already set, the DMA will wait until the
TXRTS bit becomes clear before doing anything. While
the transmission is in progress, none of the unshaded
bits (except for the EECON1 register’s bits) in Table 7-2
should be changed. Additionally, none of the bytes to be
transmitted should be read or written to through the SPI.
If the host controller wishes to cancel the transmission,
it can clear the TXRTS bit.
When the packet is finished transmitting or was aborted
due to an error/cancellation, the ECON1.TXRTS bit will
be cleared, a seven-byte transmit status vector will be
written to the location pointed to by ETXND + 1, the
EIR.TXIF will be set and an interrupt will be generated
(if enabled). The ETXST and ETXND Pointers will not
be modified. To check if the packet was successfully
transmitted, the ESTAT.TXABRT bit should be read. If
it was set, the host controller may interrogate the
ESTAT.LATECOL bit in addition to the various fields in
the transmit status vector to determine the cause. The
transmit status vector is organized as shown in
Table 7-1. Multi-byte fields are written in little-endian
format.

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TABLE 7-1:
Bit
55-52

TRANSMIT STATUS VECTORS
Field

Description

Zero

0

51

Transmit VLAN Tagged Frame

Frame’s length/type field contained 8100h which is the VLAN protocol
identifier.

50

Backpressure Applied

Carrier sense method backpressure was previously applied.

49

Transmit Pause Control Frame

The frame transmitted was a control frame with a valid pause opcode.

48

Transmit Control Frame

The frame transmitted was a control frame.

Total Bytes Transmitted on Wire

Total bytes transmitted on the wire for the current packet, including all
bytes from collided attempts.

31

Transmit Underrun

Reserved. This bit will always be ‘0’.

30

Transmit Giant

Byte count for frame was greater than MAMXFL.

29

Transmit Late Collision

Collision occurred beyond the collision window (MACLCON2).

28

Transmit Excessive Collision

Packet was aborted after the number of collisions exceeded the
retransmission maximum (MACLCON1).

27

Transmit Excessive Defer

Packet was deferred in excess of 24,287 bit times (2.4287ms).

26

Transmit Packet Defer

Packet was deferred for at least one attempt but less than an excessive
defer.

47-32

25

Transmit Broadcast

Packet’s destination address was a broadcast address.

24

Transmit Multicast

Packet’s destination address was a multicast address.

23

Transmit Done

Transmission of the packet was completed.

22

Transmit Length Out of Range

Indicates that frame type/length field was larger than 1500 bytes (type
field).

21

Transmit Length Check Error

Indicates that frame length field value in the packet does not match the
actual data byte length and is not a type field. MACON3.FRMLNEN
must be set to get this error.

20

Transmit CRC Error

The attached CRC in the packet did not match the internally generated
CRC.

19-16

Transmit Collision Count

Number of collisions the current packet incurred during transmission
attempts. It applies to successfully transmitted packets and as such, will
not show the possible maximum count of 16 collisions.

15-0

Transmit Byte Count

Total bytes in frame not counting collided bytes.

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TABLE 7-2:

SUMMARY OF REGISTERS USED FOR PACKET TRANSMISSION
Bit 7

Bit 6

Bit 5

Bit 4

Bit 3

Bit 2

Bit 1

Bit 0

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Values
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INTIE
—

PKTIE
PKTIF

DMAIE
DMAIF

LINKIE
LINKIF

TXIE
TXIF

r
r

TXERIE
TXERIF

RXERIE
RXERIF

13
13

ESTAT

INT

BUFER

r

LATECOL

—

RXBUSY

TXABRT

CLKRDY

13

ECON1

TXRST

RXRST

DMAST

CSUMEN

TXRTS

RXEN

BSEL1

BSEL0

Register
Name
EIE
EIR

ETXSTL

TX Start Low Byte (ETXST<7:0>)

ETXSTH

—

ETXNDL

—

—

TX Start High Byte (ETXST<12:8>)

13

TX End High Byte (ETXND<12:8>)

13

TX End Low Byte (ETXND<7:0>)

ETXNDH

—

—

—

13
13
13

MACON1

—

—

—

r

TXPAUS

RXPAUS

PASSALL

MARXEN

14

MACON3

PADCFG2

PADCFG1

PADCFG0

TXCRCEN

PHDREN

HFRMEN

FRMLNEN

FULDPX

14

DEFER

BPEN

NOBKOFF

—

—

r

r

14

MACON4

—

MABBIPG

—

Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap (BBIPG<6:0>)

14

MAIPGL

—

Non-Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap Low Byte (MAIPGL<6:0>)

14

MAIPGH

—

Non-Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap High Byte (MAIPGH<6:0>)

MACLCON1

—

—

—

—

MACLCON2

—

—

14

Retransmission Maximum (RETMAX<3:0>)

Collision Window (COLWIN<5:0>)

14
14

MAMXFLL

Maximum Frame Length Low Byte (MAMXFL<7:0>)

14

MAMXFLH

Maximum Frame Length High Byte (MAMXFL<15:8>)

14

Legend:

— = unimplemented, r = reserved bit. Shaded cells are not used.

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7.2

Receiving Packets

7.2.1

ENABLING RECEPTION

Assuming that the receive buffer has been initialized,
the MAC has been properly configured and the receive
filters have been configured to receive Ethernet
packets, the host controller should:
1.
2.

3.

If an interrupt is desired whenever a packet is
received, set EIE.PKTIE and EIE.INTIE.
If an interrupt is desired whenever a packet is
dropped due to insufficient buffer space, clear
EIR.RXERIF and set both EIE.RXERIE and
EIE.INTIE
Enable reception by setting ECON1.RXEN.

After setting RXEN, the Duplex mode and the Receive
Buffer Start and End Pointers should not be modified.
Additionally, to prevent unexpected packets from arriving, it is recommended that RXEN be cleared before
altering the receive filter configuration (ERXFCON) and
MAC address.

FIGURE 7-3:

After reception is enabled, packets which are not
filtered out will be written into the circular receive buffer.
Any packet which does not meet the necessary filter
criteria will be discarded and the host controller will not
have any means of identifying that a packet was thrown
away. When a packet is accepted and completely
written into the buffer, the EPKTCNT register will increment, the EIR.PKTIF bit will be set, an interrupt will be
generated (if enabled) and the Hardware Write Pointer,
ERXWRPT, will automatically advance.

7.2.2

RECEIVE PACKET LAYOUT

Figure 7-3 shows the layout of a received packet. The
packets are preceded by a six-byte header which
contains a Next Packet Pointer, in addition to a receive
status vector which contains receive statistics, including the packet’s size. This receive status vector is
shown in Table 7-3.
If the last byte in the packet ends on an odd value
address, the hardware will automatically add a padding
byte when advancing the Hardware Write Pointer. As
such, all packets will start on an even boundary.

SAMPLE RECEIVE PACKET LAYOUT
Address

Memory

Description

Packet N – 1

End of the Previous Packet
101Fh
1020h
1021h
1022h
1023h
1024h
1025h
1026h
1027h

6Eh
10h
rsv[7:0]
rsv[15:8]
rsv[23:16]
rsv[30:24]
data[1]
data[2]

Low Byte
High Byte
status[7:0]
status[15:8]
status[23:16]
status[31:24]

Next Packet Pointer

Receive Status Vector

Packet N

1059h
106Ah
106Bh
106Ch
106Dh
106Eh

data[m-3]
data[m-2]
data[m-1]
data[m]

crc[31:24]
crc[23:16]
crc[15:8]
crc[7:0]

Byte Skipped to Ensure
Even Buffer Address

Packet N + 1

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Packet Data: Destination Address,
Source Address, Type/Length, Data,
Padding, CRC

Start of the Next Packet

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TABLE 7-3:

RECEIVE STATUS VECTORS

Bit

Field

31

Zero

Description
0

30

Receive VLAN Type Detected

Current frame was recognized as a VLAN tagged frame.

29

Receive Unknown Opcode

Current frame was recognized as a control frame but it contained an
unknown opcode.

28

Receive Pause Control Frame

Current frame was recognized as a control frame containing a valid pause
frame opcode and a valid destination address.

27

Receive Control Frame

Current frame was recognized as a control frame for having a valid
type/length designating it as a control frame.

26

Dribble Nibble

Indicates that after the end of this packet, an additional 1 to 7 bits were
received. The extra bits were thrown away.

25

Receive Broadcast Packet

Indicates packet received had a valid broadcast address.

24

Receive Multicast Packet

Indicates packet received had a valid multicast address.

23

Received Ok

Indicates that at the packet had a valid CRC and no symbol errors.

22

Length Out of Range

Indicates that frame type/length field was larger than 1500 bytes (type field).

21

Length Check Error

Indicates that frame length field value in the packet does not match the
actual data byte length and specifies a valid length.

20

CRC Error

Indicates that frame CRC field value does not match the CRC calculated
by the MAC.

19

Reserved

18

Carrier Event Previously Seen

17

Reserved

16

Long Event/Drop Event

Indicates a packet over 50,000 bit times occurred or that a packet was
dropped since the last receive.

Received Byte Count

Indicates length of the received frame. This includes the destination
address, source address, type/length, data, padding and CRC fields. This
field is stored in little-endian format.

15-0

7.2.3

Indicates that at some time since the last receive, a carrier event was
detected. The carrier event is not associated with this packet. A carrier
event is activity on the receive channel that does not result in a packet
receive attempt being made.

READING RECEIVED PACKETS

To process the packet, the host controller will normally
use the RBM SPI command and start reading from the
beginning of the next Packet Pointer. The host controller
will save the next Packet Pointer, any necessary bytes
from the receive status vector and then proceed to read
the actual packet contents. If ECON2.AUTOINC is set, it
will be able to sequentially read the entire packet without
ever modifying the ERDPT registers. The Read Pointer
would automatically wrap at the end of the circular
receive buffer to the beginning.

EXAMPLE 7-1:

In the event that the application needed to do random
access to the packet, it would be necessary to manually calculate the proper ERDPT, taking care to not
exceed the end of the receive buffer if the packet spans
the ERXND-to-ERXST buffer boundary. In other words,
given the packet start address and a desired offset, the
application should follow the logic shown in
Example 7-1.

RANDOM ACCESS ADDRESS CALCULATION

if Packet Start Address + Offset > ERXND, then
ERDPT = Packet Start Address + Offset – (ERXND – ERXST + 1)
else
ERDPT = Packet Start Address + Offset

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7.2.4

FREEING RECEIVE BUFFER SPACE

After the host controller has processed a packet (or part
of the packet) and wishes to free the buffer space used
by the processed data, the host controller must
advance the Receive Buffer Read Pointer, ERXRDPT.
The ENC28J60 will always write up to, but not including, the memory pointed to by the Receive Buffer Read
Pointer. If the ENC28J60 ever attempts to overwrite the
Receive Buffer Read Pointer location, the packet in
progress will be aborted, the EIR.RXERIF will be set
and an interrupt will be generated (if enabled). In this
manner, the hardware will never overwrite
unprocessed packets. Normally, the ERXRDPT will be
advanced to the value pointed to by the next Packet
Pointer which precedes the receive status vector for
the current packet. Following such a procedure will not
require any Pointer calculations to account for
wrapping at the end of the circular receive buffer.
The Receive Buffer Read Pointer Low Byte
(ERXRDPTL register) is internally buffered to prevent
the Pointer from moving when only one byte is updated
through the SPI. To move ERXRDPT, the host controller must write to ERXRDPTL first. The write will update
the internal buffer but will not affect the register. When
the host controller writes to ERXRDPTH, the internally
buffered low byte will be loaded into the ERXRDPTL
register at the same time. The ERXRDPT bytes can be
read in any order. When they are read, the actual value
of the registers will be returned. As a result, the
buffered low byte is not readable.
In addition to advancing the Receive Buffer Read
Pointer, after each packet is fully processed, the host
controller must write a ‘1’ to the ECON2.PKTDEC bit.
Doing so will cause the EPKTCNT register to
decrement by 1. After decrementing, if EPKTCNT is ‘0’,
the EIR.PKTIF flag will automatically be cleared.
Otherwise, it will remain set, indicating that additional
packets are in the receive buffer and are waiting to be
processed. Attempts to decrement EPKTCNT below 0
are ignored. Additionally, if the EPKTCNT register ever
maximizes at 255, all new packets which are received
will be aborted, even if buffer space is available. To
indicate the error, the EIR.RXERIF will be set and an
interrupt will be generated (if enabled). To prevent this
condition, the host controller must properly decrement
the counter whenever a packet is processed.

EXAMPLE 7-2:

Because only one Pointer is available to control buffer
area ownership, the host controller must process packets in the order they are received. If the host controller
wishes to save a packet to be processed later, it should
copy the packet to an unused location in memory. It
may accomplish this efficiently using the integrated
DMA controller (see Section 13.0 “Direct Memory
Access Controller”).

7.2.5

RECEIVE BUFFER FREE SPACE

At any time the host controller wishes to know how
much receive buffer space is remaining, it should read
the Hardware Write Pointer (ERXWRPT registers) and
compare it with the ERXRDPT registers. Combined
with the known size of the receive buffer, the free space
can be derived.
Note:

The ERXWRPT registers only update
when a packet has been successfully
received. If the host controller reads it just
before another packet is to be successfully
completed, the value returned could be
stale and off by the maximum frame length
permitted (MAMXFLN) plus 7. Furthermore, as the host controller reads one
byte of ERXWRPT, a new packet may
arrive and update the Pointer before the
host controller has an opportunity to read
the other byte of ERXWRPT.

When reading the ERXWRPT register with the receive
hardware enabled, special care must be taken to
ensure the low and high bytes are read as a matching
set.
To be assured that a matching set is obtained:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Read the EPKTCNT register and save its
contents.
Read ERXWRPTL and ERXWRPTH.
Read the EPKTCNT register again.
Compare the two packet counts. If they are not
the same, go back to step 2.

With the Hardware Write Pointer obtained, the free
space can be calculated as shown in Example 7-2. The
hardware prohibits moving the Write Pointer to the
same value occupied by ERXRDPT (except when the
Buffer Pointers are being configured), so at least one
byte will always go unused in the buffer. The example
calculation reflects the lost byte.

RECEIVE BUFFER FREE SPACE CALCULATION

if ERXWRPT > ERXRDPT, then
Free Space = (ERXND – ERXST) – (ERXWRPT – ERXRDPT)
else if ERXWRPT = ERXRDPT, then
Free Space = (ERXND – ERXST)
else
Free Space = ERXRDPT – ERXWRPT – 1

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TABLE 7-4:

SUMMARY OF REGISTERS USED FOR PACKET RECEPTION
Bit 7

Bit 6

Bit 5

Bit 4

Bit 3

Bit 2

Bit 1

Bit 0

Reset
Values
on page

EIE

INTIE

PKTIE

DMAIE

LINKIE

TXIE

r

TXERIE

RXERIE

13

EIR

—

PKTIF

DMAIF

LINKIF

TXIF

r

TXERIF

RXERIF

13

ESTAT

INT

BUFER

r

LATECOL

—

RXBUSY

TXABRT

CLKRDY

13

ECON2

AUTOINC

PKTDEC

PWRSV

r

VRPS

—

—

—

13

ECON1

TXRST

RXRST

DMAST

CSUMEN

TXRTS

RXEN

BSEL1

BSEL0

13

Register
Name

ERXSTL

RX Start Low Byte (ERXST<7:0>)

ERXSTH

—

ERXNDL

—

ERXRDPTL

13
RX Start High Byte (ERXST<12:8>)

13

—

—

RX End High Byte (ERXND<12:8>)

13

13

RX RD Pointer Low Byte (ERXRDPT<7:0>)

ERXRDPTH
EPKTCNT

—

RX End Low Byte (ERXND<7:0>)

ERXNDH

ERXFCON

—

—

—

—

UCEN

ANDOR

CRCEN

13

RX RD Pointer High Byte (ERXRDPT<12:8>)
PMEN

MPEN

HTEN

MCEN

13
BCEN

Ethernet Packet Count

14
14

MACON1

—

—

—

r

TXPAUS

RXPAUS

PASSALL

MARXEN

MACON3

PADCFG2

PADCFG1

PADCFG0

TXCRCEN

PHDREN

HFRMEN

FRMLNEN

FULDPX

MAMXFLL

Maximum Frame Length Low Byte (MAMXFL<7:0>)

14

Maximum Frame Length High Byte (MAMXFL<15:8>)

14

MAMXFLH
Legend:

14
14

— = unimplemented, r = reserved bit. Shaded cells are not used.

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8.0

RECEIVE FILTERS

To minimize the processing requirements of the host
controller, the ENC28J60 incorporates several different
receive filters which can automatically reject packets
which are not needed. Six different types of packet
filters are implemented:
•
•
•
•
•
•

Unicast
Pattern Match
Magic Packet™
Hash Table
Multicast
Broadcast

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The individual filters are all configured by the ERXFCON
register (Register 8-1). More than one filter can be active
at any given time. Additionally, the filters can be configured by the ANDOR bit to either logically AND, or
logically OR, the tests of several filters. In other words,
the filters may be set so that only packets accepted by
all active filters are accepted, or a packet accepted by
any one filter is accepted. The flowcharts in Figure 8-1
and Figure 8-2 show the effect that each of the filters will
have depending on the setting of ANDOR.
The device can enter Promiscuous mode and receive
all packets by clearing the ERXFCON register. The
proper setting of the register will depend on the
application requirements.

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REGISTER 8-1:

ERXFCON: ETHERNET RECEIVE FILTER CONTROL REGISTER

R/W-1

R/W-0

R/W-1

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-1

UCEN

ANDOR

CRCEN

PMEN

MPEN

HTEN

MCEN

BCEN

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 7

UCEN: Unicast Filter Enable bit
When ANDOR = 1:
1 = Packets not having a destination address matching the local MAC address will be discarded
0 = Filter disabled
When ANDOR = 0:
1 = Packets with a destination address matching the local MAC address will be accepted
0 = Filter disabled

bit 6

ANDOR: AND/OR Filter Select bit
1 = AND: Packets will be rejected unless all enabled filters accept the packet
0 = OR: Packets will be accepted unless all enabled filters reject the packet

bit 5

CRCEN: Post-Filter CRC Check Enable bit
1 = All packets with an invalid CRC will be discarded
0 = The CRC validity will be ignored

bit 4

PMEN: Pattern Match Filter Enable bit
When ANDOR = 1:
1 = Packets must meet the Pattern Match criteria or they will be discarded
0 = Filter disabled
When ANDOR = 0:
1 = Packets which meet the Pattern Match criteria will be accepted
0 = Filter disabled

bit 3

MPEN: Magic Packet Filter Enable bit
When ANDOR = 1:
1 = Packets must be Magic Packets for the local MAC address or they will be discarded
0 = Filter disabled
When ANDOR = 0:
1 = Magic Packets for the local MAC address will be accepted
0 = Filter disabled

bit 2

HTEN: Hash Table Filter Enable bit
When ANDOR = 1:
1 = Packets must meet the Hash Table criteria or they will be discarded
0 = Filter disabled
When ANDOR = 0:
1 = Packets which meet the Hash Table criteria will be accepted
0 = Filter disabled

bit 1

MCEN: Multicast Filter Enable bit
When ANDOR = 1:
1 = Packets must have the Least Significant bit set in the destination address or they will be discarded
0 = Filter disabled
When ANDOR = 0:
1 = Packets which have the Least Significant bit set in the destination address will be accepted
0 = Filter disabled

bit 0

BCEN: Broadcast Filter Enable bit
When ANDOR = 1:
1 = Packets must have a destination address of FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF or they will be discarded
0 = Filter disabled
When ANDOR = 0:
1 = Packets which have a destination address of FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF will be accepted
0 = Filter disabled

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FIGURE 8-1:

RECEIVE FILTERING USING OR LOGIC
Packet Detected on Wire
ANDOR = 0 (OR)

UCEN set?

Yes

Yes

Unicast
packet?

No

No

PMEN set?

Yes

Yes

Pattern
matches?

No

No

MPEN set?

Yes

Magic Packet
for us?

No

Yes

No

HTEN set?

Yes

Yes

Hash table
bit set?

No

No

MCEN set?

Yes

Multicast
destination?

No

Yes

No

BCEN set?

Yes

Broadcast
destination?

No

Yes

CRCEN set?

Yes
No
No

CRC valid?

No

Yes
Reject Packet

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FIGURE 8-2:

RECEIVE FILTERING USING AND LOGIC
Packet Detected on Wire
ANDOR = 1 (AND)

UCEN set?

Yes

No

Unicast
packet?

No

Yes

PMEN set?

Yes

Pattern
matches?

No

No

Yes

MPEN set?

Yes

Magic Packet
for us?

No

No

Yes

HTEN set?

Yes

No

Hash table
bit set?

No

Yes

MCEN set?

Yes

Multicast
destination?

No

No

Yes

BCEN set?

Yes

Broadcast
destination?

No

No

Yes

No

CRCEN set?

Yes

CRC valid?

No

Yes
Accept Packet

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8.1

Unicast Filter

the filter criteria will immediately not be met, even if the
corresponding mask bits are all ‘0’. The pattern match
checksum registers should be programmed to the
checksum which is expected for the selected bytes.
The checksum is calculated in the same manner that
the DMA module calculates checksums (see
Section 13.2 “Checksum Calculations”). Data bytes
which have corresponding mask bits programmed to ‘0’
are completely removed for purposes of calculating the
checksum, as opposed to treating the data bytes as
zero.

The unicast receive filter checks the destination
address of all incoming packets. If the destination
address exactly matches the contents of the MAADR
registers, the packet will meet the unicast filter criteria.

8.2

Pattern Match Filter

The pattern match filter selects up to 64 bytes from the
incoming packet and calculates an IP checksum of the
bytes. The checksum is then compared to the EPMCS
registers. The packet meets the pattern match filter
criteria if the calculated checksum matches the EPMCS
registers. The pattern match filter may be useful for
filtering packets which have expected data inside them.

As an example, if the application wished to filter all
packets having a particular source MAC address of
00-04-A3-FF-FF-FF, it could program the pattern match
offset to 0000h and then set bits 6 and 7 of EPMM0 and
bits 0, 1, 2 and 3 of EPMM1 (assuming all other mask
bits are ‘0’). The proper checksum to program into the
EPMCS registers would be 0x5BFC. As an alternative
configuration, it could program the offset to 0006h and
set bits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of EPMM0. The checksum
would still be 5BFCh. However, the second case would
be less desirable as packets less than 70 bytes long
could never meet the pattern match criteria, even if
they would generate the proper checksum given the
mask configuration.

To use the pattern match filter, the host controller must
program the pattern match offset (EPMOH:EPMOL), all
of the pattern match mask bytes (EPMM7:EPMM0) and
the pattern match checksum register pair
(EPMCSH:EPMCSL). The pattern match offset should
be loaded with the offset from the beginning of the destination address field to the 64-byte window which will
be used for the checksum computation. Within the
64-byte window, each individual byte can be selectively
included or excluded from the checksum computation
by setting or clearing the respective bit in the pattern
match mask. If a packet is received which would cause
the 64 byte window to extend past the end of the CRC,

FIGURE 8-3:

Another example of a pattern matching filter is
illustrated in Figure 8-3.

SAMPLE PATTERN MATCH FORMAT

Input Configuration:
EMPOH:EPMOL = 0006h
EPMM7:EPMM0 = 0000000000001F0Ah
EPMCSH:EPMCSL = 563Fh

Field

DA

SA

Type/Length

Data

FCS

Received
Data

11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99 AA BB CC 00 5A

09 0A 0B 0C 0D . . . 40 . . . FE 45 23 01

Byte #

0 1 2 3 4 5

14 15 16 17 18 . . . 70 . . .

6 7 8 9 10 11

12 13

Bytes used for
Checksum Computation

64-byte Window used
for Pattern Match

Values used for Checksum Computation = {88h, AAh, 09h, 0Ah, 0Bh, 0Ch, 0Dh, 00h}
(00h padding byte added by hardware)
Note:

Received data is shown in hexadecimal. Byte numbers are shown in decimal format.

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8.3

Magic Packet™ Filter

The Magic Packet filter checks the destination address
and data fields of all incoming packets. If the destination
address matches the MAADR registers and the data
field holds a valid Magic Packet pattern someplace

FIGURE 8-4:

within it, then the packet will meet the Magic Packet filter
criteria. The Magic Packet pattern consists of a sync
pattern of six 0xFF bytes, followed by 16 repeats of the
destination address. See Figure 8-4 for a sample Magic
Packet.

SAMPLE MAGIC PACKET™ FORMAT

Received
Data

Field

11 22 33 44 55 66

Comments

DA
SA
Type/Length

77 88 99 AA BB CC
00 FE
09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E
FF FF FF FF FF 00

Sync Pattern

FF FF FF FF FF FF
11 22 33 44 55 66
11 22 33 44 55 66
11 22 33 44 55 66
11 22 33 44 55 66
11 22 33 44 55 66
11 22 33 44 55 66
11 22 33 44 55 66

Data

11 22 33 44 55 66
11 22 33 44 55 66

Sixteen Repeats of
the Station Address

11 22 33 44 55 66
11 22 33 44 55 66
11 22 33 44 55 66
11 22 33 44 55 66
11 22 33 44 55 66
11 22 33 44 55 66
11 22 33 44 55 66
19 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E
EF 54 32 10

8.4

FCS

Hash Table Filter

8.5

The hash table receive filter performs a CRC over the
six destination address bytes in the packet. The CRC is
then used as a Pointer into the bits of the EHT registers. If the Pointer points to a bit which is set, the packet
meets the hash table filter criteria. For example, if the
CRC is calculated to be 0x5, bit 5 in the hash table will
be checked. If it is set, the hash table filter criteria will
be met. If every bit is clear in the hash table, the filter
criteria will never be met. Similarly, if every bit is set in
the hash table, the filter criteria will always be met.

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Multicast Filter

The multicast receive filter checks the destination
address of all incoming packets. If the Least Significant
bit of the first byte of the destination address is set, the
packet will meet the multicast filter criteria.

8.6

Broadcast Filter

The broadcast receive filter checks the destination
address of all incoming packets. If the destination
address is FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF, the packet will meet
the broadcast filter criteria.

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9.0

DUPLEX MODE
CONFIGURATION AND
NEGOTIATION

2.

The ENC28J60 does not support automatic duplex
negotiation. If it is connected to an automatic duplex
negotiation enabled network switch or Ethernet controller, the ENC28J60 will be detected as a half-duplex
device. To communicate in Full-Duplex mode, the
ENC28J60 and the remote node (switch, router or
Ethernet controller) must be manually configured for
full-duplex operation.

9.1

Half-Duplex Operation

The ENC28J60 operates in Half-Duplex mode when
MACON3.FULDPX = 0 and PHCON1.PDPXMD = 0. If
only one of these two bits is set, the ENC28J60 will be
in an indeterminate state and not function correctly.
Since switching between Full and Half-Duplex modes
may result in this indeterminate state, the host controller should not transmit any packets (maintain
ECON1.TXRTS clear) and packet reception should be
disabled (ECON1.RXEN and ESTAT.RXBUSY should
be clear) during this period.
In Half-Duplex mode, only one Ethernet controller may
be transmitting on the physical medium at any time. If
the host controller sets the ECON1.TXRTS bit,
requesting that a packet be transmitted while another
Ethernet controller is already transmitting, the
ENC28J60 will delay, waiting for the remote transmitter
to stop. After the transmission stops, the ENC28J60
will attempt to transmit its packet. If another Ethernet
controller starts transmitting at approximately the same
time that the ENC28J60 starts transmitting, the data on
the wire will become corrupt and a collision will occur.
The hardware will handle this condition in one of two
ways:
1.

If the collision occurs before the number of bytes
specified by the “Collision Window” in
MACLCON2
were
transmitted,
the
ECON1.TXRTS bit will remain set, a random
exponential back off delay will elapse as defined
by the IEEE 802.3 specification and then a new
attempt to transmit the packet from the beginning will occur. The host controller will not need
to intervene. If the number of retransmission
attempts already matches the “Retransmission
Maximum” (RETMAX) defined in MACLCON1,
the packet will be aborted and ECON1.TXRTS
will be cleared. The host controller will then be
responsible for taking appropriate action. The
host controller will be able to determine that the
packet was aborted instead of being successfully transmitted by reading the ESTAT.TXABRT
flag. For more information, see Section 7.1
“Transmitting Packets”. A transmit abort will
cause the transmit error interrupt.

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If the collision occurs after the number of bytes
specified by the “Collision Window” in
MACLCON2 were transmitted, the packet will be
immediately aborted without any retransmission
attempts. Ordinarily, in 802.3 compliant
networks which are properly configured, this late
collision will not occur. User intervention may be
required to correct the issue. This problem may
occur as a result of a full-duplex node attempting
to transmit on the half-duplex medium. Alternately, the ENC28J60 may be attempting to
operate in Half-Duplex mode while it may be
connected to a full-duplex network. Excessively
long cabling and network size may also be a
possible cause of late collisions.

When set in Half-Duplex mode, the Reset default
configuration will loop transmitted packets back to
itself. Unless the receive filter configuration filters these
packets out, they will be written into the circular receive
buffer, just as any other network traffic. To stop this
behavior, the host controller should set the
PHCON2.HDLDIS bit.

9.2

Full-Duplex Operation

The ENC28J60 operates in Full-Duplex mode when
MACON3.FULDPX = 1 and PHCON1.PDPXMD = 1. If
only one of these two bits is clear, the ENC28J60 will
be in an indeterminate state and not function correctly.
Since switching between Full and Half-Duplex modes
may result in this indeterminate state, the host controller should not transmit any packets (maintain
ECON1.TXRTS clear) and packet reception should be
disabled (ECON1.RXEN and ESTAT.RXBUSY should
be clear) during this period.
In Full-Duplex mode, packets will be transmitted
simultaneously while packets may be received. Given
this, it is impossible to cause any collisions when transmitting packets. Several configuration fields, such as
“Retransmission Maximum” (RETMAX) in MACLCON1
and “Collision Window” (COLWIN) in MACLCON2, will
not be used.
When set in Full-Duplex mode, the Reset default
configuration will not loop transmitted packets back to
itself. If loopback is desired for diagnostic purposes, the
PHCON1.PLOOPBK bit should be set by the host
controller. Enabling loopback in Full-Duplex mode will
disable the twisted pair output driver and ignore all
incoming data, thus dropping any link (if established).
All packets received as a result of the loopback configuration will be subject to all enabled receive filters, just
as ordinary network traffic would be.

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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 InterPacket 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.

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

Given the detrimental network effects that are possible
and lack of effectiveness, it is not recommend that halfduplex flow control be used unless the application will
be in a closed network environment with proper testing.
Computer A

10.2

Computer B

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-

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To enable flow control on the ENC28J60 in Full-Duplex
mode, the host controller must set the TXPAUS and
RXPAUS bits in the MACON1 register. Then, at any time
that the receiver buffer is running out of space, the host
controller should turn flow control on by writing the value
02h to the EFLOCON register. The hardware will periodically transmit pause frames loaded with the pause timer
value specified in the EPAUS registers. The host
controller can continue to transmit its own packets
without interfering with the flow control hardware.
When space has been made available for more packets
in the receive buffer, the host controller should turn flow
control off by writing the value 03h to the EFLOCON
register. The hardware will send one last pause frame
loaded with a pause timer value of 0000h. When the
pause frame is received by the remote node, it will
resume normal network operations.

REGISTER 10-1:

When RXPAUS is set in the MACON1 register and a
valid pause frame arrives with a non-zero pause timer
value, the ENC28J60 will automatically inhibit
transmissions. If the host controller sets the
ECON1.TXRTS bit to send a packet, the hardware will
simply wait until the pause timer expires before
attempting to send the packet and subsequently clearing
the TXRTS bit. Normally, the host controller will never
know that a pause frame has been received. However, if
it is desirable to the host controller to know when the
MAC is paused or not, it should set the PASSALL bit in
MACON1 and then manually interpret the pause control
frames which may arrive.

EFLOCON: ETHERNET FLOW CONTROL REGISTER

U-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

R-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

—

—

—

—

—

FULDPXS

FCEN1

FCEN0

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 7-3

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 2

FULDPXS: Read-Only MAC Full-Duplex Shadow bit
1 = MAC is configured for Full-Duplex mode, FULDPX (MACON3<0>) is set
0 = MAC is configured for Half-Duplex mode, FULDPX (MACON3<0>) is clear

bit 1-0

FCEN1:FCEN0: Flow Control Enable bits
When FULDPXS = 1:
11 = Send one pause frame with a ‘0’ timer value and then turn flow control off
10 = Send pause frames periodically
01 = Send one pause frame then turn flow control off
00 = Flow control off
When FULDPXS = 0:
11 = Flow control on
10 = Flow control off
01 = Flow control on
00 = Flow control off

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Name
ECON1

SUMMARY OF REGISTERS USED WITH FLOW CONTROL
Bit 7

Bit 6

Bit 5

Bit 4

Bit 3

Bit 2

TXRST

RXRST

DMAST

CSUMEN

TXRTS

RXEN

MACON1

—

—

—

r

TXPAUS

RXPAUS

MABBIPG

—

EFLOCON

—

Bit 1

Bit 0

Reset
Values
on page

BSEL1

BSEL0

13

PASSALL MARXEN

Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap (BBIPG<6:0>)
—

—

—

—

14
14

FULDPXS

FCEN1

FCEN0

14

EPAUSL

Pause Timer Value Low Byte (EPAUS<7:0>)

14

EPAUSH

Pause Timer Value High Byte (EPAUS<15:8>)

14

Legend: — = unimplemented, read as ‘0’. Shaded cells are not used.

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11.0

RESET

The ENC28J60 differentiates between various kinds of
Reset:
•
•
•
•
•

Power-on Reset (POR)
System Reset
Transmit Only Reset
Receive Only Reset
Miscellaneous MAC and PHY Subsystem Resets

A simplified block diagram of the On-Chip Reset Circuit
is shown in Figure 11-1.

FIGURE 11-1:

ON-CHIP RESET CIRCUIT

Soft Reset Command
Hardware Reset

System Reset

POR

Reset Host Interface

Reset Transmit

Transmit Reset

Reset Receive
Receive Reset

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11.1

Power-on Reset (POR)

A Power-on Reset pulse is generated on-chip
whenever VDD rises above a certain threshold. This
allows the device to start in the initialized state when
VDD is adequate for operation.
The POR circuitry is always enabled. As a result, most
applications do not need to attach any external circuitry
to the RESET pin to ensure a proper Reset at powerup. The RESET pin’s internal weak pull-up will maintain
a logical high level on the pin during normal device
operation.
To ensure proper POR operation, a minimum rise rate
for VDD is specified (parameter D003). The application
circuit must meet this requirement to allow the Oscillator
Start-up Timer and CLKOUT functions to reset properly.
After a Power-on Reset, the contents of the dual port
buffer memory will be unknown. However, all registers
will be loaded with their specified Reset values. Certain
portions of the ENC28J60 must not be accessed
immediately after a POR. See Section 2.2 “Oscillator
Start-up Timer” for more information.

11.2

System Reset

The System Reset of ENC28J60 can be accomplished
by either the RESET pin, or through the SPI interface.
The RESET pin provides an asynchronous method for
triggering an external Reset of the device. A Reset is
generated by holding the RESET pin low. The
ENC28J60 has a noise filter in the RESET path which
detects and ignores small pulses of time tRSTLOW or
less. When the RESET pin is held high, the ENC28J60
will operate normally.

After a System Reset, all PHY registers should not be
read or written to until at least 50 μs have passed since
the Reset has ended. All registers will revert to their
Reset default values. The dual port buffer memory will
maintain state throughout the System Reset.

11.3

Transmit Only Reset

The Transmit Only Reset is performed by writing a ‘1’ to
the TXRST bit in the ECON1 register using the SPI interface. If a packet was being transmitted when the TXRST
bit was set, the hardware will automatically clear the
TXRTS bit and abort the transmission. This action resets
the transmit logic only. The System Reset automatically
performs the Transmit Only Reset. Other register and
control blocks, such as buffer management and host
interface, are not affected by a Transmit Only Reset
event. When the host controller wishes to return to
normal operation, it should clear the TXRST bit.

11.4

Receive Only Reset

The Receive Only Reset is performed by writing a ‘1’ to
the RXRST bit in the ECON1 register using the SPI
interface. If packet reception was enabled (the RXEN
bit was set) when RXRST was set, the hardware will
automatically clear the RXEN bit. If a packet was being
received, it would be immediately aborted. This action
resets receive logic only. The System Reset automatically performs Receive Only Reset. Other register and
control blocks, such as the buffer management and
host interface blocks, are not affected by a Receive
Only Reset event. When the host controller wishes to
return to normal operation, it should clear the RXRST
bit.

The ENC28J60 can also be reset via the SPI using the
System Reset Command. See Section 4.0 “Serial
Peripheral Interface (SPI)”.
The RESET pin will not be driven low by any internal
Resets, including a System Reset Command via the
SPI interface.

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PHY Subsystem Reset

The PHY module may be reset by writing a ‘1’ to the
PRST bit in the PHCON1 register (Register 11-1). All
the PHY register contents will revert to their Reset
defaults.

REGISTER 11-1:

Unlike other Resets, the PHY cannot be removed from
Reset immediately after setting PRST. The PHY
requires a delay, after which the hardware automatically clears the PRST bit. After a Reset is issued, the
host controller should poll PRST and wait for it to
become clear before using the PHY.

PHCON1: PHY CONTROL REGISTER 1

R/W-0

R/W-0

U-0

U-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

U-0

R/W-0

PRST

PLOOPBK

—

—

PPWRSV

r

—

PDPXMD

bit 15

bit 8

R/W-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

U-0

r

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 15

PRST: PHY Software Reset bit
1 = PHY is processing a Software Reset (automatically resets to ‘0’ when done)
0 = Normal operation

bit 14

PLOOPBK: PHY Loopback bit
1 = All data transmitted will be returned to the MAC. The twisted-pair interface will be disabled.
0 = Normal operation

bit 13-12

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 11

PPWRSV: PHY Power-Down bit
1 = PHY is shut down
0 = Normal operation

bit 10

Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’

bit 9

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 8

PDPXMD: PHY Duplex Mode bit
1 = PHY operates in Full-Duplex mode
0 = PHY operates in Half-Duplex mode

bit 7

Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’

bit 6-0

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

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INTERRUPTS

The ENC28J60 has multiple interrupt sources and an
interrupt output pin to signal the occurrence of events
to the host controller. The interrupt pin is designed for
use by a host controller that is capable of detecting falling edges.
Interrupts are managed with two registers. The EIE
register contains the individual interrupt enable bits for
each interrupt source, while the EIR register contains
the corresponding interrupt flag bits. When an interrupt
occurs, the interrupt flag is set. If the interrupt is
enabled in the EIE register and the INTIE global interrupt enable bit is set, the INT pin will be driven low (see
Figure 12-1).
Note:

Except for the LINKIF interrupt flag,
interrupt flag bits are set when an interrupt
condition occurs regardless of the state of
its corresponding enable bit or the associated global enable bit. User software
should ensure the appropriate interrupt flag
bits are clear prior to enabling an interrupt.
This feature allows for software polling.

FIGURE 12-1:

When an enabled interrupt occurs, the interrupt pin will
remain low until all flags which are causing the interrupt
are cleared or masked off (enable bit is cleared) by the
host controller. If more than one interrupt source is
enabled, the host controller must poll each flag in the
EIR register to determine the source(s) of the interrupt.
It is recommended that the Bit Field Clear (BFC) SPI
command be used to reset the flag bits in the EIR register rather than the normal Write Control Register
(WCR) command. This is necessary to prevent unintentionally altering a flag that changes during the write
command. The BFC and WCR commands are discussed in detail in Section 4.0 “Serial Peripheral
Interface (SPI)”.
After an interrupt occurs, the host controller should
clear the global enable bit for the interrupt pin before
servicing the interrupt. Clearing the enable bit will
cause the interrupt pin to return to the non-asserted
state (high). Doing so will prevent the host controller
from missing a falling edge should another interrupt
occur while the immediate interrupt is being serviced.
After the interrupt has been serviced, the global enable
bit may be restored. If an interrupt event occurred while
the previous interrupt was being processed, the act of
resetting the global enable bit will cause a new falling
edge on the interrupt pin to occur.

ENC28J60 INTERRUPT LOGIC
PKTIF
PKTIE
DMAIF

PLNKIF

PGIF

PLNKIE
PGEIE

DMAIE
LINKIF
INT
LINKIE

INT

TXIF
TXIE

INTIE

TXERIF
TXERIE
RXERIF
RXERIE

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12.1

INT Interrupt Enable (INTIE)

The INT Interrupt Enable bit (INTIE) is a global enable
bit which allows the following interrupts to drive the INT
pin:
•
•
•
•
•
•

12.1.1

Receive Error Interrupt (RXERIF)
Transmit Error Interrupt (TXERIF)
Transmit Interrupt (TXIF)
Link Change Interrupt (LINKIF)
DMA Interrupt (DMAIF)
Receive Packet Pending Interrupt (PKTIF)

REGISTER 12-1:

When any of the above interrupts are enabled and
generated, the virtual bit, INT in the ESTAT register
(Register 12-1), will be set to ‘1’. If EIE.INTIE is ‘1’, the
INT pin will be driven low.

INT INTERRUPT REGISTERS

The registers associated with the INT interrupts are
shown in Register 12-2, Register 12-3, Register 12-4
and Register 12-5.

ESTAT: ETHERNET STATUS REGISTER

R-0

R/C-0

R-0

R/C-0

U-0

R-0

R/C-0

R/W-0

INT

BUFER

r

LATECOL

—

RXBUSY

TXABRT

CLKRDY

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

C = Clearable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 7

INT: INT Interrupt Flag bit
1 = INT interrupt is pending
0 = No INT interrupt is pending

bit 6

BUFER: Ethernet Buffer Error Status bit
1 = An Ethernet read or write has generated a buffer error (overrun or underrun)
0 = No buffer error has occurred

bit 5

Reserved: Read as ‘0’

bit 4

LATECOL: Late Collision Error bit
1 = A collision occurred after 64 bytes had been transmitted
0 = No collisions after 64 bytes have occurred

bit 3

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 2

RXBUSY: Receive Busy bit
1 = Receive logic is receiving a data packet
0 = Receive logic is Idle

bit 1

TXABRT: Transmit Abort Error bit
1 = The transmit request was aborted
0 = No transmit abort error

bit 0

CLKRDY: Clock Ready bit
1 = OST has expired; PHY is ready
0 = OST is still counting; PHY is not ready

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EIE: ETHERNET INTERRUPT ENABLE REGISTER

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

INTIE

PKTIE

DMAIE

LINKIE

TXIE

r

TXERIE

RXERIE

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

bit 7

INTIE: Global INT Interrupt Enable bit
1 = Allow interrupt events to drive the INT pin
0 = Disable all INT pin activity (pin is continuously driven high)

bit 6

PKTIE: Receive Packet Pending Interrupt Enable bit
1 = Enable receive packet pending interrupt
0 = Disable receive packet pending interrupt

bit 5

DMAIE: DMA Interrupt Enable bit
1 = Enable DMA interrupt
0 = Disable DMA interrupt

bit 4

LINKIE: Link Status Change Interrupt Enable bit
1 = Enable link change interrupt from the PHY
0 = Disable link change interrupt

bit 3

TXIE: Transmit Enable bit
1 = Enable transmit interrupt
0 = Disable transmit interrupt

bit 2

Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’

bit 1

TXERIE: Transmit Error Interrupt Enable bit
1 = Enable transmit error interrupt
0 = Disable transmit error interrupt

bit 0

x = Bit is unknown

RXERIE: Receive Error Interrupt Enable bit
1 = Enable receive error interrupt
0 = Disable receive error interrupt

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REGISTER 12-3:

EIR: ETHERNET INTERRUPT REQUEST (FLAG) REGISTER

U-0

R-0

R/C-0

R-0

R/C-0

R-0

R/C-0

R/C-0

—

PKTIF

DMAIF

LINKIF

TXIF

r

TXERIF

RXERIF

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

C = Clearable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 7

Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’

bit 6

PKTIF: Receive Packet Pending Interrupt Flag bit
1 = Receive buffer contains one or more unprocessed packets; cleared when PKTDEC is set
0 = Receive buffer is empty

bit 5

DMAIF: DMA Interrupt Flag bit
1 = DMA copy or checksum calculation has completed
0 = No DMA interrupt is pending

bit 4

LINKIF: Link Change Interrupt Flag bit
1 = PHY reports that the link status has changed; read PHIR register to clear
0 = Link status has not changed

bit 3

TXIF: Transmit Interrupt Flag bit
1 = Transmit request has ended
0 = No transmit interrupt is pending

bit 2

Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’

bit 1

TXERIF: Transmit Error Interrupt Flag bit
1 = A transmit error has occurred
0 = No transmit error has occurred

bit 0

RXERIF: Receive Error Interrupt Flag bit
1 = A packet was aborted because there is insufficient buffer space or the packet count is 255
0 = No receive error interrupt is pending

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REGISTER 12-4:

PHIE: PHY INTERRUPT ENABLE REGISTER

R-0

R-0

R-0

R-0

R-0

R-0

R-0

R-0

r

r

r

r

r

r

r

r

bit 15

bit 8

R-0

R-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R-0

R-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

r

r

r

PLNKIE

r

r

PGEIE

r

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

bit 15-6

Reserved: Write as ‘0’, ignore on read

bit 5

Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’

bit 4

PLNKIE: PHY Link Change Interrupt Enable bit
1 = PHY link change interrupt is enabled
0 = PHY link change interrupt is disabled

bit 3-2

Reserved: Write as ‘0’, ignore on read

bit 1

PGEIE: PHY Global Interrupt Enable bit
1 = PHY interrupts are enabled
0 = PHY interrupts are disabled

bit 0

x = Bit is unknown

Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’

REGISTER 12-5:

PHIR: PHY INTERRUPT REQUEST (FLAG) REGISTER

R-x

R-x

R-x

R-x

R-x

R-x

R-x

R-x

r

r

r

r

r

r

r

r

bit 15

bit 8

R-x

R-x

R-0

R/SC-0

R-0

R/SC-0

R-x

R-0

r

r

r

PLNKIF

r

PGIF

r

r

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

SC = Self-clearing bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 15-6

Reserved: Do not modify

bit 5

Reserved: Read as ‘0’

bit 4

PLNKIF: PHY Link Change Interrupt Flag bit
1 = PHY link status has changed since PHIR was last read; resets to ‘0’ when read
0 = PHY link status has not changed since PHIR was last read

bit 3

Reserved: Read as ‘0’

bit 2

PGIF: PHY Global Interrupt Flag bit
1 = One or more enabled PHY interrupts have occurred since PHIR was last read; resets to ‘0’ when read
0 = No PHY interrupts have occurred

bit 1

Reserved: Do not modify

bit 0

Reserved: Read as ‘0’

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12.1.2

RECEIVE ERROR INTERRUPT
FLAG (RXERIF)

The Receive Error Interrupt Flag (RXERIF) is used to
indicate a receive buffer overflow condition. Alternately,
this interrupt may indicate that too many packets are in
the receive buffer and more cannot be stored without
overflowing the EPKTCNT register.
When a packet is being received and the receive buffer
runs completely out of space, or EPKTCNT is 255 and
cannot be incremented, the packet being received will
be aborted (permanently lost) and the EIR.RXERIF bit
will be set to ‘1’. Once set, RXERIF can only be cleared
by the host controller or by a Reset condition. If the
receive error interrupt and INT interrupt are enabled
(EIE.RXERIE = 1 and EIE.INTIE = 1), an interrupt is
generated by driving the INT pin low. If the receive error
interrupt is not enabled (EIE.RXERIE = 0 or EIE.INTIE
= 0), the host controller may poll the ENC28J60 for the
RXERIF and take appropriate action.
Normally, upon the receive error condition, the host
controller would process any packets pending from the
receive buffer and then make additional room for future
packets by advancing the ERXRDPT registers (low
byte first) and decrementing the EPKTCNT register.
See Section 7.2.4 “Freeing Receive Buffer Space”
for more information on processing packets. Once
processed, the host controller should use the BFC
command to clear the EIR.RXERIF bit.

12.1.3

2.

3.
4.

5.

Excessive collisions occurred as defined by the
Retransmission Maximum (RETMAX) bits in the
MACLCON1 register.
A late collision occurred as defined by the
Collision Window (COLWIN) bits in the
MACLCON2 register.
A collision after transmitting 64 bytes occurred
(ESTAT.LATECOL set).
The transmission was unable to gain an
opportunity to transmit the packet because the
medium was constantly occupied for too long.
The deferral limit (2.4287 ms) was reached and
the MACON4.DEFER bit was clear.
An attempt to transmit a packet larger than the
maximum frame length defined by the MAMXFL
registers was made without setting the
MACON3.HFRMEN bit or per packet
POVERRIDE and PHUGEEN bits.

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After a transmit abort, the TXRTS bit will be cleared, the
ESTAT.TXABRT bit will be set and the transmit status
vector will be written at ETXND + 1. The MAC will not
automatically attempt to retransmit the packet. The
host controller may wish to read the transmit status
vector and LATECOL bit to determine the cause of the
abort. After determining the problem and solution, the
host controller should clear the LATECOL (if set) and
TXABRT bits so that future aborts can be detected
accurately.
In Full-Duplex mode, condition 5 is the only one that
should cause this interrupt. Collisions and other problems related to sharing the network are not possible on
full-duplex networks. The conditions which cause the
transmit error interrupt meet the requirements of the
transmit interrupt. As a result, when this interrupt
occurs, TXIF will also be simultaneously set.

12.1.4

TRANSMIT ERROR INTERRUPT
FLAG (TXERIF)

The Transmit Error Interrupt Flag (TXERIF) is used to
indicate that a transmit abort has occurred. An abort
can occur because of any of the following:
1.

Upon any of these conditions, the EIR.TXERIF flag is set
to ‘1’. Once set, it can only be cleared by the host
controller or by a Reset condition. If the transmit error
interrupt is enabled (EIE.TXERIE = 1 and EIE.INTIE = 1),
an interrupt is generated by driving the INT pin low for
one OSC1 period. If the transmit error interrupt is not
enabled (EIE.TXERIE = 0 or EIE.INTIE = 0), the host
controller may poll the ENC28J60 for the TXERIF and
take appropriate action. Once the interrupt is processed,
the host controller should use the BFC command to clear
the EIR.TXERIF bit.

TRANSMIT INTERRUPT
FLAG (TXIF)

The Transmit Interrupt Flag (TXIF) is used to indicate
that the requested packet transmission has ended
(ECON1.TXRTS has transitioned from ‘1’ to ‘0’). Upon
transmission completion, abort or transmission cancellation by the host controller, the EIR.TXIF flag will be set to
‘1’. If the host controller did not clear the TXRTS bit and
the ESTAT.TXABRT bit is not set, then the packet was
successfully transmitted. Once TXIF is set, it can only be
cleared by the host controller or by a Reset condition. If
the transmit interrupt is enabled (EIE.TXIE = 1 and
EIE.INTIE = 1), an interrupt is generated by driving the
INT pin low. If the transmit interrupt is not enabled
(EIE.TXIE = 0 or EIE.INTIE = 0), the host controller may
poll the ENC28J60 for the TXIF bit and take appropriate
action. Once processed, the host controller should use
the BFC command to clear the EIR.TXIF bit.

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12.1.5

LINK CHANGE INTERRUPT
FLAG (LINKIF)

12.1.6

The LINKIF indicates that the link status has changed.
The actual current link status can be obtained from the
PHSTAT1.LLSTAT or PHSTAT2.LSTAT (see Register 3-5
and Register 3-6). Unlike other interrupt sources, the link
status change interrupt is created in the integrated PHY
module; additional steps must be taken to enable it.
By Reset default, LINKIF is never set for any reason. To
receive it, the host controller must set the
PHIE.PLNKIE and PGEIE bits. After setting the two
PHY interrupt enable bits, the LINKIF bit will then
shadow the contents of the PHIR.PGIF bit. The PHY
only supports one interrupt, so the PGIF bit will always
be the same as the PHIR.PLNKIF bit (when both PHY
enable bits are set).
Once LINKIF is set, it can only be cleared by the host
controller or by a Reset. If the link change interrupt
is enabled (EIE.LINKIE = 1, EIE.INTIE = 1,
PHIE.PLNKIE = 1 and PHIE.PGEIE = 1), an interrupt
will be generated by driving the INT pin low. If the link
change interrupt is not enabled (EIE.LINKIE = 0,
EIE.INTIE = 0, PHIE.PLNKIE = 0 or PHIE.PGEIE = 0),
the host controller may poll the ENC28J60 for the
PHIR.PLNKIF bit and take appropriate action.
The LINKIF bit is read-only. Because reading from PHY
registers requires non-negligible time, the host controller
may instead set PHIE.PLNKIE and PHIE.PGEIE and
then poll the EIR.LINKIF bit. Performing an MII read on
the PHIR register will clear the LINKIF, PGIF and
PLNKIF bits automatically and allow for future link status
change interrupts. See Section 3.3 “PHY Registers”
for information on accessing the PHY registers.

DMA INTERRUPT FLAG (DMAIF)

The DMA interrupt indicates that the DMA module has
completed its memory copy or checksum calculation
(ECON1.DMAST has transitioned from ‘1’ to ‘0’). Additionally, this interrupt will be caused if the host controller
cancels a DMA operation by manually clearing the
DMAST bit. Once set, DMAIF can only be cleared by the
host controller or by a Reset condition. If the DMA
interrupt is enabled (EIE.DMAIE = 1 and EIE.INTIE = 1),
an interrupt is generated by driving the INT pin low. If the
DMA interrupt is not enabled (EIE.DMAIE = 0 or
EIE.INTIE = 0), the host controller may poll the
ENC28J60 for the DMAIF and take appropriate action.
Once processed, the host controller should use the BFC
command to clear the EIR.DMAIF bit.

12.1.7

RECEIVE PACKET PENDING
INTERRUPT FLAG (PKTIF)

The Receive Packet Pending Interrupt Flag (PKTIF) is
used to indicate the presence of one or more data packets in the receive buffer and to provide a notification
means for the arrival of new packets. When the receive
buffer has at least one packet in it, EIR.PKTIF will be set.
In other words, this interrupt flag will be set anytime the
Ethernet Packet Count register (EPKTCNT) is non-zero.
If the receive packet pending interrupt is enabled
(EIE.PKTIE = 1 and EIE.INTIE = 1), an interrupt will be
generated by driving the INT pin low whenever a new
packet is successfully received and written into the
receive buffer. If the receive packet pending interrupt is
not enabled (EIE.PKTIE = 0 or EIE.INTIE = 0), the host
controller will not be notified when new packets arrive.
However, it may poll the PKTIF bit and take appropriate
action.
The PKTIF bit can only be cleared by the host controller
or by a Reset condition. In order to clear PKTIF, the
EPKTCNT register must be decremented to ‘0’. See
Section 7.2 “Receiving Packets” for more information about clearing the EPKTCNT register. If the last
data packet in the receive buffer is processed,
EPKTCNT will become zero and the PKTIF bit will
automatically be cleared.

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12.2

12.2.1

Wake-On-LAN/Remote Wake-up

Wake-On-LAN or Remote Wake-up is useful in conserving system power. The host controller and other
subsystems can be put in Low-Power mode and be
woken up by the ENC28J60 when a wake-up packet is
received from a remote station. The ENC28J60 must
not be in Power-Save mode and the transmit and
receive modules must be enabled in order to receive a
wake-up packet. The ENC28J60 wakes up the host
controller via the INT signal when the Interrupt Mask
registers are properly configured. The receive filter can
also be set up to only receive a specific wake-up packet
(see
Register 8-1
for
available
options).
Section 12.2.1 “Setup Steps for Waking Up on a
Magic Packet” shows the steps necessary in configuring the ENC28J60 to send an interrupt signal to the
host controller upon the reception of a Magic packet.

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1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

SETUP STEPS FOR WAKING UP ON
A MAGIC PACKET

Set ERXFCON.CRCEN and ERXFCON.MPEN.
Service all pending packets.
Set EIE.PKTIE and EIE.INTIE.
Set up the host controller to wake-up on an
external interrupt INT signal.
Put the host controller and other subsystems to
Sleep to save power.

Once a Magic packet is received, the EPKTCNT is
incremented to ‘1’, which causes the EIR.PKTIF bit to
set. In turn, the ESTAT.INT bit is set and the INT signal
is driven low, causing the host to wake-up.

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13.0

DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS
CONTROLLER

13.1

To copy memory within the buffer:

The ENC28J60 incorporates a dual purpose DMA
controller which can be used to copy data between
locations within the 8-Kbyte memory buffer. It can also
be used to calculate a 16-bit checksum which is
compatible with various industry standard protocols,
including TCP and IP.
When a DMA operation begins, the EDMAST register
pair is copied into an Internal Source Pointer. The DMA
will execute on one byte at a time and then increment
the Internal Source Pointer. However, if a byte is
processed and the Internal Source Pointer is equal to
the Receive Buffer End Pointer, ERXND, the Source
Pointer will not be incremented. Instead, the Internal
Source Pointer will be loaded with the Receive Buffer
Start Pointer, ERXST. In this way, the DMA will follow
the circular FIFO structure of the receive buffer and
received packets can be processed using one operation. The DMA operation will end when the Internal
Source Pointer matches the EDMAND Pointer.
While any DMA operation is in progress, the DMA
Pointers and the ECON1.CSUMEN bit should not be
modified. The DMA operation can be canceled at any
time by clearing the ECON1.DMAST bit. No registers
will change; however, some memory bytes may already
have been copied if a DMA copy was in progress.
Note 1: If the EDMAND Pointer cannot be
reached because of the receive buffer
wrapping behavior, the DMA operation
will never end.
2: By design, the DMA module cannot
be used to copy only one byte
(EDMAST = EDMAND). An attempt to
do so will overwrite all memory in the
buffer and may never end.

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Copying Memory

1.

2.

3.
4.

Appropriately program the EDMAST, EDMAND
and EDMADST register pairs. The EDMAST
registers should point to the first byte to copy
from, the EDMAND registers should point to the
last byte to copy and the EDMADST registers
should point to the first byte in the destination
range. The destination range will always be
linear, never wrapping at any values except from
8191 to 0 (the 8-Kbyte memory boundary).
Extreme care should be taken when
programming the Start and End Pointers to
prevent a never ending DMA operation which
would overwrite the entire 8-Kbyte buffer.
If an interrupt at the end of the copy process is
desired, set EIE.DMAIE and EIE.INTIE and
clear EIR.DMAIF.
Verify that ECON1.CSUMEN is clear.
Start the DMA copy by setting ECON1.DMAST.

If a transmit operation is in progress (TXRTS set) while
the DMAST bit is set, the ENC28J60 will wait until the
transmit operation is complete before attempting to do
the DMA copy. This possible delay is required because
the DMA and transmission engine share the same
memory access port.
When the copy is complete, the DMA hardware will
clear the DMAST bit, set the DMAIF bit and generate
an interrupt (if enabled). The Pointers and the
EDMACS registers will not be modified.
After the DMA module has been initialized and has
begun its copy, two main clock cycles will be required
for each byte copied. As a result, if a maximum size
1518-byte packet was copied, the DMA module would
require slightly more than 121.44 μs to complete. The
time required to copy a minimum size packet of
64 bytes would be dominated by the time required to
configure the DMA.

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13.2

Checksum Calculations

The checksum calculation logic treats the source data as
a series of 16-bit big-endian integers. If the source range
contains an odd number of bytes, a padding byte of 00h
is effectively added to the end of the series for purposes
of calculating the checksum. The calculated checksum
is the 16-bit one’s complement of the one’s complement
sum of all 16-bit integers. For example, if the bytes
included in the checksum were {89h, ABh, CDh}, the
checksum would begin by computing 89ABh + CD00h.
A carry out of the 16th bit would occur in the example, so
in 16-bit one’s complement arithmetic, it would be added
back to the first bit. The resulting value of 56ACh would
finally be complemented to achieve a checksum of
A953h.

Pointers will not be modified and no memory will be
written to. The EDMACSH and EDMACSL registers will
contain the calculated checksum. The host controller
may write this value into a packet, compare this value
with a received checksum, or use it for other purposes.
Various protocols, such as TCP and IP, have a checksum
field inside a range of data which the checksum covers.
If such a packet is received and the host controller needs
to validate the checksum, it can do the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.

To calculate a checksum:
1.

Program the EDMAST and EDMAND register
pairs to point to the first and last bytes of buffer
data to be included in the checksum. Care should
be taken when programming these Pointers to
prevent a never ending checksum calculation
due to receive buffer wrapping.
To generate an optional interrupt when the
checksum calculation is done, clear EIR.DMAIF,
set EIE.DMAIE and set EIE.INTIE.
Start the calculation by setting ECON1.CSUMEN
and ECON1.DMAST.

2.

3.

Writing to the receive buffer is permitted when the write
address is protected by means of the ERXRDPT
Pointers. See Section 7.2 “Receiving Packets” for
additional information.
The IP checksum has unique mathematical properties
which may be used in some cases to reduce the
processing requirements further. Writing to the receive
buffer may be unnecessary in some applications.

When the checksum is finished being calculated, the
hardware will clear the DMAST bit, set the DMAIF bit
and an interrupt will be generated if enabled. The DMA

TABLE 13-1:

Read the checksum from the packet and save it
to a temporary location
Write zeros to the checksum field.
Calculate a new checksum using the DMA
controller.
Compare the results with the saved checksum
from step 1.

When operating the DMA in Checksum mode, it will
take one main clock cycle for every byte included in the
checksum. As a result, if a checksum over 1446 bytes
were performed, the DMA module would require
slightly more than 57.84 μs to complete the operation.

SUMMARY OF REGISTERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DMA CONTROLLER
Bit 7

Bit 6

Bit 5

Bit 4

Bit 3

Bit 2

Bit 1

Bit 0

Reset
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EIE

INTIE

PKTIE

DMAIE

LINKIE

TXIE

r

TXERIE

RXERIE

13

EIR

—

PKTIF

DMAIF

LINKIF

TXIF

r

TXERIF

RXERIF

13

TXRST

RXRST

DMAST

CSUMEN

TXRTS

RXEN

BSEL1

BSEL0

13

Register
Name

ECON1
ERXNDL

RX End Low Byte (ERXND<7:0>)
—

ERXNDH

—

—

13
RX End High Byte (ERXND<12:8>)

13

EDMASTL
EDMASTH
EDMANDL
EDMANDH
EDMADSTL
EDMADSTH
EDMACSL

DMA Start Low Byte (EDMAST<7:0>)
—
—
—
DMA Start High Byte (EDMAST<12:8>)
DMA End Low Byte (EDMAND<7:0>)
—
—
—
DMA End High Byte (EDMAND<12:8>)
DMA Destination Low Byte (EDMADST<7:0>)
—
—
—
DMA Destination High Byte (EDMADST<12:8>)
DMA Checksum Low Byte (EDMACS<7:0>)

13
13
13
13
13
13
13

EDMACSH

DMA Checksum High Byte (EDMACS<15:8>)

13

Legend: — = unimplemented, read as ‘0’. Shaded cells are not used with the DMA controller.

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14.0

POWER-DOWN

When normal operation is desired, the host controller
must perform a slightly modified procedure:

The ENC28J60 may be commanded to power-down
via the SPI interface. When powered down, it will no
longer be able to transmit and receive any packets.

1.
2.

Wake-up by clearing ECON2.PWRSV.
Wait at least 300 μs for the PHY to stabilize. To
accomplish the delay, the host controller may
poll ESTAT.CLKRDY and wait for it to become
set.
Restore receive capability by setting
ECON1.RXEN.

To maximize power savings:
1.
2.

3.
4.
5.

Turn off packet reception by clearing
ECON1.RXEN.
Wait for any in-progress packets to finish being
received by polling ESTAT.RXBUSY. This bit
should be clear before proceeding.
Wait for any current transmissions to end by
confirming ECON1.TXRTS is clear.
Set ECON2.VRPS (if not already set).
Enter Sleep by setting ECON2.PWRSV. All
MAC, MII and PHY registers become
inaccessible as a result. Setting PWRSV also
clears ESTAT.CLKRDY automatically.

3.

After leaving Sleep mode, there is a delay of many
milliseconds before a new link is established (assuming
an appropriate link partner is present). The host
controller may wish to wait until the link is established
before attempting to transmit any packets. The link
status can be determined by polling the
PHSTAT2.LSTAT bit. Alternatively, the link change
interrupt may be used if it is enabled. See
Section 12.1.5 “Link Change Interrupt Flag
(LINKIF)” for additional details.

In Sleep mode, all registers and buffer memory will
maintain their states. The ETH registers and buffer
memory will still be accessible by the host controller.
Additionally, the clock driver will continue to operate.
The CLKOUT function will be unaffected (see
Section 2.3 “CLKOUT Pin”).

TABLE 14-1:
Name
ESTAT
ECON2
ECON1

SUMMARY OF REGISTERS USED WITH POWER-DOWN
Bit 7

Bit 6

INT

BUFER

AUTOINC PKTDEC
TXRST

RXRST

Bit 5

Bit 4

Bit 3

Bit 2

Bit 1

Bit 0

Reset
Values
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r

LATECOL

—

RXBUSY

TXABRT

CLKRDY

13

PWRSV

r

VRPS

—

—

—

13

DMAST

CSUMEN

TXRTS

RXEN

BSEL1

BSEL0

13

Legend: — = unimplemented, read as ‘0’, r = reserved bit. Shaded cells are not used for power-down.

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15.0

BUILT-IN SELF-TEST
CONTROLLER

The BIST controller is operated through four registers:

The ENC28J60 features a Built-in Self-Test (BIST)
module which is designed to confirm proper operation
of each bit in the 8-Kbyte memory buffer. Although it is
primarily useful for testing during manufacturing, it
remains present and available for diagnostic purposes
by the user. The controller writes to all locations in the
buffer memory and requires several pieces of hardware
shared by normal Ethernet operations. Thus, the BIST
should only be used on Reset or after necessary
hardware is freed. When the BIST is used, the ECON1
register’s DMAST, RXEN and TXRTS bits should all be
clear.

REGISTER 15-1:

• EBSTCON register (control and status register)
• EBSTSD register (fill seed/initial shift value)
• EBSTCSH and EBSTCSL registers (high and low
bytes of generated checksum)
The EBSTCON register (Register 15-1) controls the
module’s overall operation, selecting the testing modes
and starting the self-test process. The bit pattern for
memory tests is provided by the EBSTSD seed register; its content is either used directly, or as the seed for
a pseudo-random number generator, depending on the
Test mode.

EBSTCON: ETHERNET SELF-TEST CONTROL REGISTER

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

R/W-0

PSV2

PSV1

PSV0

PSEL

TMSEL1

TMSEL0

TME

BISTST

bit 7

bit 0

Legend:
R = Readable bit

W = Writable bit

U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’

-n = Value at POR

‘1’ = Bit is set

‘0’ = Bit is cleared

x = Bit is unknown

bit 7-5

PSV2:PSV0: Pattern Shift Value bits
When TMSEL<1:0> = 10:
The bits in EBSTSD will shift left by this amount after writing to each memory location.
When TMSEL<1:0> = 00, 01 or 11:
This value is ignored.

bit 4

PSEL: Port Select bit
1 = DMA and BIST modules will swap ports when accessing the memory
0 = Normal configuration

bit 3-2

TMSEL1:TMSEL0: Test Mode Select bits
11 = Reserved
10 = Pattern shift fill
01 = Address fill
00 = Random data fill

bit 1

TME: Test Mode Enable bit
1 = Enable Test mode
0 = Disable Test mode

bit 0

BISTST: Built-in Self-Test Start/Busy bit
1 = Test in progress; cleared automatically when test is done
0 = No test running

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15.1

Using the BIST

When the BIST controller is started, it will fill the entire
buffer with the data generated for the current test
configuration and it will also calculate a checksum of
the data as it is written. When the BIST is complete, the
EBSTCS registers will be updated with the checksum.
The host controller will be able to determine if the test
passed or failed by using the DMA module to calculate
a checksum of all memory. The resulting checksum
generated by the DMA should match the BIST checksum. If after any properly executed test, the checksums
differ, a hardware fault may be suspected.
The BIST controller supports 3 different operations:

The ports through which the BIST and DMA modules
access the dual port SRAM can be swapped for each
of the four Test modes to ensure proper read/write
capability from both ports.
To use the BIST:

3.
4.

5.
6.
7.

8.

9.

Program the EDMAST register pair to 0000h.
Program EDMAND and ERXND register pairs to
1FFFh.
Configure the DMA for checksum generation by
setting CSUMEN in ECON1.
Write the seed/initial shift value byte to the
EBSTSD register (this is not necessary if
Address Fill mode is used).
Enable Test mode, select the desired test, select
the desired port configuration for the test.
Start the BIST by setting EBSTCON.BISTST.
Start the DMA checksum by setting DMAST in
ECON1. The DMA controller will read the
memory at the same rate the BIST controller will
write to it, so the DMA can be started any time
after the BIST is started.
Wait for the DMA to complete by polling the
DMAST bit or receiving the DMA interrupt (if
enabled).
Compare the EDMACS registers with the
EBSTCS registers.

To ensure full testing, the test should be redone with
the Port Select bit, PSEL, altered. When not using
Address Fill mode, additional tests may be done with
different seed values to gain greater confidence that
the memory is working as expected.

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The BIST module requires one main clock cycle for
each byte that it writes into the RAM. The DMA module’s checksum implementation requires the same time
but it can be started immediately after the BIST is
started. As a result, the minimum time required to do
one test pass is slightly greater than 327.68 μs.

15.2

• Random Data Fill
• Address Fill
• Pattern Shift Fill

1.
2.

At any time during a test, the test can be canceled by
clearing the BISTST, DMAST and TME bits. While the
BIST is filling memory, the EBSTSD register should not
be accessed, nor should any configuration changes
occur. When the BIST completes its memory fill and
checksum generation, the BISTST bit will automatically
be cleared.

Random Data Fill Mode

In Random Data Fill mode, the BIST controller will write
pseudo-random data into the buffer. The random data
is generated by a Linear Feedback Shift Register
(LFSR) implementation. The random number generator is seeded by the initial contents of the EBSTSD
register and the register will have new contents when
the BIST is finished.
Because of the LFSR implementation, an initial seed of
zero will generate a continuous pattern of zeros. As a
result, a non-zero seed value will likely perform a more
extensive memory test. Selecting the same seed for
two separate trials will allow a repeat of the same test.

15.3

Address Fill Mode

In Address Fill mode, the BIST controller will write the
low byte of each memory address into the associated
buffer location. As an example, after the BIST is operated, the location 0000h should have 00h in it, location
0001h should have 01h in it, location 0E2Ah should
have 2Ah in it and so on. With this fixed memory
pattern, the BIST and DMA modules should always
generate a checksum of F807h. The host controller
may use Address Fill mode to confirm that the BIST
and DMA modules themselves are both operating as
intended.

15.4

Pattern Shift Fill Mode

In Pattern Shift Fill mode, the BIST controller writes the
value of EBSTSD into memory location 0000h. Before
writing to location 0001h, it shifts the contents of
EBSTSD to the left by the value specified by the
PSV2:PSV0 bits in EBSTCON. Bits that leave the most
significant end of EBSTSD are wrapped around to the
least significant side. This shift is repeated for each
new address. As a result of shifting the data, a checkerboard pattern can be written into the buffer memory to
confirm that adjacent memory elements do not affect
each other when accessed.

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TABLE 15-1:
Name
ECON1
ERXNDL
ERXNDH
EDMASTL
EDMASTH
EDMANDL
EDMANDH

SUMMARY OF REGISTERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SELF-TEST CONTROLLER
Bit 7

Bit 6

Bit 5

Bit 4

Bit 3

Bit 2

Bit 1

Bit 0

Reset
Values
on page

TXRST

RXRST

DMAST

CSUMEN

TXRTS

RXEN

BSEL1

BSEL0

13

RX End Low Byte (ERXND<7:0>)
—
—
—
RX End High Byte (ERXND<12:8>)
DMA Start Low Byte (EDMAST<7:0>)
—

—

—

13
13
13

DMA Start High Byte (EDMAST<12:8>)

13

DMA End Low Byte (EDMAND<7:0>)
—

—

—

13

DMA End High Byte (EDMAND<12:8>)

13

EDMACSL

DMA Checksum Low Byte (EDMACS<7:0>)

13

EDMACSH

DMA Checksum High Byte (EDMACS<15:8>)

13

EBSTSD

Built-in Self-Test Fill Seed (EBSTSD<7:0>)

EBSTCON

PSV2

PSV1

PSV0

PSEL

14
TMSEL1

TMSEL0

TME

BISTST

14

EBSTCSL

Built-in Self-Test Checksum Low Byte (EBSTCS<7:0>)

14

EBSTCSH

Built-in Self-Test Checksum High Byte (EBSTCS<15:8>)

14

Legend: — = unimplemented, read as ‘0’. Shaded cells are not used.

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NOTES:

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ENC28J60
16.0

ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Absolute Maximum Ratings
Storage temperature ...............................................................................................................................-65°C to +150°C
Ambient temperature under bias............................................................................................. -40°C to +85°C (Industrial)
0°C to +70°C (Commercial)
Voltage on VDD, VDDOSC, VDDPLL, VDDRX, and VDDTX, with respect to VSS ................................................ -0.3V to 3.6V
Voltage on RESET, CS, SCK and SI, with respect to VSS ........................................................................... -0.3V to 6.0V
Voltage on CLKOUT, SO, OSC1, OSC2, LEDA and LEDB, with respect to VSS ...............................-0.3V to VDD + 0.3V
Voltage on TPIN+/- and TPOUT+/- with respect to VSS ............................................................................... -0.3V to 5.0V
VCAP with respect to VSS (Note 1) ............................................................................................................. -0.3V to 2.75V
ESD protection on all pins.......................................................................................................................................... 2 kV
Current sourced or sunk by LEDA, LEDB ...............................................................................................................12 mA
Current sourced or sunk by CLKOUT .......................................................................................................................8 mA
Current sourced or sunk by INT and SO...................................................................................................................4 mA
Note 1: VCAP is not designed to supply an external load. No external voltage should be applied to this pin.
† Notice: Stresses above those listed under “Maximum Ratings” may cause permanent damage to the device. This
is a stress rating only and functional operation of the device at those or any other conditions above those indicated in
the operational listings of this specification is not implied. Exposure to maximum rating conditions for extended periods
may affect device reliability.

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16.1

DC Characteristics: ENC28J60 (Industrial and Commercial)

DC CHARACTERISTICS
Param.
No.

Sym

Characteristic

D001

VDD

Supply Voltage

D002

VPOR

VDD Power-on Reset
Voltage

D003

SVDD

VDD Rise Rate to ensure
internal Power-on Reset
signal

VIH

Standard Operating Conditions
-40°C ≤ TA ≤ +85°C, 3.10V ≤ VDD ≤ 3.60V (Industrial)
0°C ≤ TA ≤ +70°C, 3.10V ≤ VDD ≤ 3.60V (Commercial)
Min

Typ

Max

Units

Conditions

3.10

3.30

3.60

V

—

—

0.7

V

See section on Power-on
Reset for details

0.05

—

—

V/ms

See section on Power-on
Reset for details

2.25

—

5.5

V

0.7 VDD

—

VDD

V

Input High Voltage

D004

SCK, CS, SI, RESET

D005

OSC1
VIL

Input Low Voltage

D006

SCK, CS, SI, RESET

VSS

—

1.0

V

D007

OSC1

VSS

—

0.3 VDD

V

VDD – 0.7
VDD – 0.7
VDD – 0.7

—
—
—

—
—
—

V
V
V

IOH = -12.0 mA (Note 1)
IOH = -8.0 mA (Note 1)
IOH = -4.0 mA (Note 1)

—
—
—

—
—
—

0.4
0.4
0.4

V
V
V

IOL = 12.0 mA
IOL = 8.0 mA
IOL = 4.0 mA

74K

—

173K

Ω

All input pins except OSC1

—

—

±1

μA

CS = RESET = VDD,
VSS ≤ VPIN ≤ VDD, pins in
high-impedance state
(Note 1)

OSC1 pin

—

—

±200

μA

OSC1 = VDD (Note 1)

Transmitting Ethernet
packets

—

160

180

mA

VDD = 3.30V, FSCK = 10 MHz,
SO = Open, LEDA and LEDB
open, ECON2<PWRSV> = 0

Active, not transmitting
Ethernet packets

—

120

—

mA

VDD = 3.30V,
LEDA and LEDB open,
ECON2<PWRSV> = 0

Standby Current
(Sleep mode)

—

1.2

2.0

mA

CS = VDD, Inputs tied to VDD
or VSS, VDD = 3.3V, TA =
25°C, ECON2<PWRSV> = 1

VOH

Output High Voltage
LEDA, LEDB
CLKOUT
INT, SO

VOL

Output Low Voltage
LEDA, LEDB
CLKOUT
INT, SO

RPU

Weak Pull-up Resistance

IIL

Input Leakage Current

IDD

IDDS

Note 1:

Operating Current

Negative current is defined as current sourced by the pin.

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ENC28J60
TABLE 16-1:

AC CHARACTERISTICS: ENC28J60 (INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL)
Standard Operating Conditions
-40°C ≤ TA ≤ +85°C, 3.10V ≤ VDD ≤ 3.60V (Industrial)
0°C ≤ TA ≤ +70°C, 3.10V ≤ VDD ≤ 3.60V (Commercial)

AC CHARACTERISTICS

TABLE 16-2:
Param.
No.

OSCILLATOR TIMING CHARACTERISTICS

Sym

Characteristic

Min

Max

Units

FOSC

Clock In Frequency

25

25

MHz

TOSC

Clock In Period

40

40

ns

TDUTY

Duty Cycle
(external clock input)

40

60

%

Δf

Clock Tolerance

—

±50

ppm

Min

Max

Conditions

Units

TABLE 16-3:
Param.
No.

RESET AC CHARACTERISTICS

Sym

Characteristic

trl

RESET Pin High Time
(between Reset events)

2

—

μs

tRSTLOW

RESET Pin Low Time to
trigger Reset

400

—

ns

Min

Max

Units
ns

Conditions

TABLE 16-4:
Param.
No.

CLKOUT PIN AC CHARACTERISTICS

Sym

Characteristic

Conditions

thCLKOUT

16.5

—

tlCLKOUT

CLKOUT Pin Low Time

16.5

—

ns

TDUTY = 50% (Note 1)

trCLKOUT

CLKOUT Pin Rise Time

—

3

ns

Measured from 0.1 VDD to
0.9 VDD, Load = 10 pF (Note 1)

tfCLKOUT
Note 1:

CLKOUT Pin High Time

TDUTY = 50% (Note 1)

CLKOUT Pin Fall Time

—

4

ns

Measured from 0.9 VDD to
0.1 VDD, Load = 10 pF (Note 1)

CLKOUT prescaler is set to divide by one.

TABLE 16-5:

REQUIREMENTS FOR EXTERNAL MAGNETICS
Parameter

Min

Norm

Max

Units

RX Transformer Turns Ratio

—

1:1

—

—

TX Transformer Turns Ratio

—

1:1

—

—

Insertion Loss

0.0

0.6

1.1

dB

Primary Inductance

350

—

—

μH

Transformer Isolation

—

1.5

—

kV

Differential to Common Mode Rejection

40

—

—

dB

Return Loss

-16

—

—

Conditions

dB

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Transformer Center Tap = 3.3V
8 mA bias
0.1 to 10 MHz

DS39662B-page 81
ENC28J60
FIGURE 16-1:

SPI INPUT TIMING
TCSS

TCSH

TCSD

CS

SCK
TSU THD

MSb In

SI

LSb In
1/FSCK

SO
High-Impedance

FIGURE 16-2:

SPI OUTPUT TIMING

CS

SCK
TV
SO

TDIS

TV
MSb Out

LSb Out

1/FSCK
SI

LSb In
Don’t Care

TABLE 16-6:
Param.
No.

Sym

SPI INTERFACE AC CHARACTERISTICS
Characteristic

FSCK
1

Clock Frequency

TCSS

CS Setup Time

Min

Max

Units

DC

20

Conditions

MHz

50

—

ns

10

—

ns

ETH registers and memory buffer

210

—

ns

MAC and MII registers

2

TCSH

CS Hold Time

3

TCSD

CS Disable Time

50

—

ns

4

TSU

Data Setup Time

10

—

ns

5

THD

Data Hold Time

10

—

ns

6

TV

Output Valid from Clock Low

—

10

ns

SO Load = 30 pF

7

TDIS

Output Disable Time

—

10

ns

SO Load = 30 pF

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ENC28J60
17.0

PACKAGING INFORMATION

17.1

Package Marking Information
28-Lead SPDIP

Example
ENC28J60-I/SP e3
0610017

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
YYWWNNN

28-Lead SOIC

Example
ENC28J60-I/SO e3
0610017

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
YYWWNNN

28-Lead SSOP

Example

XXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX
YYWWNNN

28-Lead QFN

ENC28J60
-C/SS e3
0610017

Example

XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX
YYWWNNN

ENC28J60
-I/ML e3
0610017

Legend: XX...X
Y
YY
WW
NNN

e3

*

Note:

Customer-specific information
Year code (last digit of calendar year)
Year code (last 2 digits of calendar year)
Week code (week of January 1 is week ‘01’)
Alphanumeric traceability code
Pb-free JEDEC designator for Matte Tin (Sn)
This package is Pb-free. The Pb-free JEDEC designator ( e3 )
can be found on the outer packaging for this package.

In the event the full Microchip part number cannot be marked on one line, it will
be carried over to the next line, thus limiting the number of available
characters for customer-specific information.

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17.2

Package Details

The following sections give the technical details of the packages.

28-Lead Skinny Plastic Dual In-line (SP) – 300 mil Body (PDIP)
E1

D

2
n

1

α

E

A2
A
L

c
β

B1

A1
eB

Units
Number of Pins
Pitch

p

B

Dimension Limits
n
p

INCHES*
MIN

NOM

MILLIMETERS
MAX

MIN

NOM

28

MAX

28
.100

2.54

Top to Seating Plane

A

.140

.150

.160

3.56

3.81

4.06

Molded Package Thickness

A2

.125

.130

.135

3.18

3.30

3.43

Base to Seating Plane

A1

.015

8.26

0.38

Shoulder to Shoulder Width

E

.300

.310

.325

7.62

7.87

Molded Package Width

E1

.275

.285

.295

6.99

7.24

7.49

Overall Length

D

1.345

1.365

1.385

34.16

34.67

35.18

Tip to Seating Plane

L
c

.125

.130

.135

3.18

3.30

3.43

.008

.012

.015

0.20

0.29

0.38

B1

.040

.053

.065

1.02

1.33

1.65

Lead Thickness
Upper Lead Width
Lower Lead Width
Overall Row Spacing
Mold Draft Angle Top

B
§

.016

.019

.022

0.41

0.48

0.56

eB
α

.320

.350

.430

8.13

8.89

10.92

5
10
15
5
10
15
β
Mold Draft Angle Bottom
5
10
15
5
10
15
* Controlling Parameter
§ Significant Characteristic
Notes:
Dimension D and E1 do not include mold flash or protrusions. Mold flash or protrusions shall not exceed .010” (0.254mm) per side.
JEDEC Equivalent: MO-095
Drawing No. C04-070

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Preliminary

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ENC28J60
28-Lead Plastic Small Outline (SO) – Wide, 300 mil Body (SOIC)

E
E1
p

D

B
2
1

n
h

α

45°
c
A2

A
φ
β

L
Units
Dimension Limits
n
p

A1
INCHES*
NOM
28
.050
.099
.091
.008
.407
.295
.704
.020
.033
4
.011
.017
12
12

Preliminary

MAX

MILLIMETERS
NOM
28
1.27
2.36
2.50
2.24
2.31
0.10
0.20
10.01
10.34
7.32
7.49
17.65
17.87
0.25
0.50
0.41
0.84
0
4
0.23
0.28
0.36
0.42
0
12
0
12

MAX
Number of Pins
Pitch
Overall Height
A
.093
.104
2.64
Molded Package Thickness
A2
.088
.094
2.39
Standoff
§
A1
.004
.012
0.30
Overall Width
E
.394
.420
10.67
Molded Package Width
E1
.288
.299
7.59
Overall Length
D
.695
.712
18.08
Chamfer Distance
h
.010
.029
0.74
Foot Length
L
.016
.050
1.27
φ
Foot Angle Top
0
8
8
c
Lead Thickness
.009
.013
0.33
Lead Width
B
.014
.020
0.51
α
Mold Draft Angle Top
0
15
15
β
Mold Draft Angle Bottom
0
15
15
* Controlling Parameter
§ Significant Characteristic
Notes:
Dimensions D and E1 do not include mold flash or protrusions. Mold flash or protrusions shall not exceed .010” (0.254mm) per side.
JEDEC Equivalent: MS-013
Drawing No. C04-052

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MIN

MIN

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28-Lead Plastic Shrink Small Outline (SS) – 209 mil Body, 5.30 mm (SSOP)
E
E1
p

D

B
2
1

n

A

c

φ

A2

A1
L

Units
Number of Pins

Dimension Limits
n
p

Pitch
Overall Height
Molded Package Thickness
Standoff
Overall Width
Molded Package Width
Overall Length
Foot Length
Lead Thickness
Foot Angle
Lead Width

A
A2
A1
E
E1
D
L
c
φ
B

INCHES
MIN

.065
.002
.295
.197
.390
.022
.004
0°
.009

NOM
28
.026
.069
.307
.209
.402
.030
4°
-

MILLIMETERS *
MAX

.079
.073
.323
.220
.413
.037
.010
8°
.015

MIN

1.65
0.05
7.49
5.00
9.90
0.55
0.09
0°
0.22

NOM
28
0.65
1.75
7.80
5.30
10.20
0.75
4°
-

MAX

2.0
1.85
8.20
5.60
10.50
0.95
0.25
8°
0.38

* Controlling Parameter
Notes:
Dimensions D and E1 do not include mold flash or protrusions. Mold flash or protrusions shall not exceed .010" (0.254mm) per side.
Drawing No. C04-073

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ENC28J60
28-Lead Plastic Quad Flat No Lead Package (ML) 6x6 mm Body (QFN) –
With 0.55 mm Contact Length (Saw Singulated)
E2

E
EXPOSED
METAL
PAD
(NOTE 2)

e

D

b

D2

2
1

K
n

OPTIONAL
INDEX

TOP VIEW

AREA

SEE DETAIL

ALTERNATE
INDEX
INDICATORS

L

BOTTOM VIEW

(NOTE 1)

A1
A

Units
Dimension Limits

MILLIMETERS*

INCHES
MIN

Number of Pins

DETAIL
ALTERNATE
PAD OUTLINE
MAX

NOM

n

MIN

NOM

28

MAX
28

Pitch

e

Overall Height

A

.031

.035

.039

0.80

0.90

1.00

Standoff

A1

.000

.001

.002

0.00

0.02

0.05

Contact Thickness

A3

0.65 BSC

.026 BSC

0.20 REF

.008 REF

E

Exposed Pad Length

.240

5.90

6.00

6.10

.167

.169

3.89

4.24

4.29

.232

.236

.240

5.90

6.00

6.10

D2

Overall Length

.236

.153

D

Exposed Pad Width

.232

E2

Overall Width

.153

.167

.169

3.89

4.24

4.29

Contact Width

β

.009

.011

.013

0.23

0.28

0.33

Contact Length §

L

.018

.022

.024

0.45

0.55

0.65

K

.008

–

–

0.20

–

–

Contact-to-Exposed Pad

§

* Controlling Parameter
§ Significant Characteristic
Notes:
1. Pin 1 visual index feature may vary, but must be located within the hatched area.
2. Exposed pad varies according to die attach paddle size.
BSC: Basic Dimension. Theoretically exact value shown without tolerances.
See ASME Y14.5M
REF: Reference Dimension, usually without tolerance, for information purposes only.
See ASME Y14.5M
JEDEC equivalent: MO-220
Drawing No. C04-105

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ENC28J60
INDEX
B
Block Diagrams
Crystal Oscillator Operation .......................................... 5
ENC28J60 Architecture ................................................ 3
Ethernet Buffer Organization ...................................... 18
External Clock Source .................................................. 5
External Connections.................................................... 7
I/O Level Shifting
3-State Buffers ...................................................... 8
AND Gate ............................................................. 8
Interrupt Logic ............................................................. 63
LEDB Polarity Configuration ......................................... 8
Memory Organization.................................................. 11
On-Chip Reset Circuit ................................................. 59
Typical Interface............................................................ 4
Broadcast Filter ................................................................... 52
Built-in Self-Test Controller ................................................. 75
Address Fill Mode ....................................................... 76
Associated Registers .................................................. 77
EBSTCS registers....................................................... 76
EBSTSD Register ....................................................... 76
Pattern Shift Fill Mode................................................. 76
Random Data Fill Mode .............................................. 76
Use.............................................................................. 76

C
Checksum Calculations ...................................................... 72
CLKOUT Pin ......................................................................... 6
Control Register Map .......................................................... 12
Control Register Summary............................................ 13–14
Control Registers ................................................................ 12
Customer Change Notification Service ............................... 91
Customer Notification Service............................................. 91
Customer Support ............................................................... 91

D
DMA Controller ................................................................... 71
Access to Buffers ........................................................ 17
Associated Registers .................................................. 72
Checksum Calculations .............................................. 72
Copying Memory......................................................... 71
Duplex-Mode
Configuration and Negotiation .................................... 53

F
Filtering
Using AND Logic ........................................................ 50
Using OR Logic .......................................................... 49
Flow Control........................................................................ 55
Associated Registers.................................................. 57
Full-Duplex Mode ....................................................... 55
Half-Duplex Mode....................................................... 55
Sample Full-Duplex Network (Diagram) ..................... 55
Full-Duplex-Mode
Operation.................................................................... 53

H
Half-Duplex-Mode
Operation.................................................................... 53
Hash Table Filter ................................................................ 52

I
I/O Level Shifting .................................................................. 8
Using 3-State Buffers ................................................... 8
Using AND Gates ......................................................... 8
Initialization ......................................................................... 33
MAC Settings.............................................................. 34
PHY Settings .............................................................. 37
Receive Buffer ............................................................ 33
Receive Filters............................................................ 33
Transmit Buffer ........................................................... 33
Waiting for OST .......................................................... 33
Interrupts ............................................................................ 63
DMA Flag (DMAIF) ..................................................... 69
INT Enable (INTIE) ..................................................... 64
Link Change Flag (LINKIF)......................................... 69
Receive Error Flag (RXERIF) ..................................... 68
Receive Packet Pending Flag (PKTIF) ....................... 69
Transmit Error Flag (TXERIF) .................................... 68
Transmit Interrupt Flag (TXIF) .................................... 68

L
LED Configuration ................................................................ 8
LEDB Polarity and Reset Configuration................................ 8

M

E
Electrical Characteristics..................................................... 79
Absolute Maximum Ratings ........................................ 79
AC Characteristics ...................................................... 81
CLKOUT Pin AC ......................................................... 81
DC Characteristics ...................................................... 80
Oscillator Timing ......................................................... 81
Requirements for External Magnetics......................... 81
Reset AC..................................................................... 81
SPI Interface AC ......................................................... 82
ENC28J60 Block Diagram .................................................... 3
EREVID Register ................................................................ 22
Errata .................................................................................... 2
Ethernet Buffer .................................................................... 17
Organization (Diagram)............................................... 18
Ethernet Module
Transmitting and Receiving Data
Receive Packet Layout ....................................... 43
Transmit Packet Layout ...................................... 40

© 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.

Ethernet Overview .............................................................. 31
External Connections (Diagram)........................................... 7

Magic Packet Filter ............................................................. 52
Magnetics and External Components................................... 7
Memory Organization ......................................................... 11
Multicast Filter..................................................................... 52

O
Oscillator............................................................................... 5
CLKOUT Transition ...................................................... 6
Crystal Oscillator .......................................................... 5
External Clock Source .................................................. 5
Start-up Timer............................................................... 5

P
Packaging Information ........................................................ 83
Details......................................................................... 84
Marking....................................................................... 83

Preliminary

DS39662B-page 89
ENC28J60
Packet Format..................................................................... 31
CRC Field ................................................................... 32
Data Field.................................................................... 32
Destination Address .................................................... 32
Padding Field .............................................................. 32
Preamble/Start-of-Frame Delimiter ............................. 31
Source Address .......................................................... 32
Type/Length Field ....................................................... 32
Pattern Match Filter............................................................. 51
Per Packet Control Byte Format ......................................... 39
PHID Registers ................................................................... 22
PHSTAT Registers.............................................................. 22
PHY Register Summary ...................................................... 20
PHY Registers..................................................................... 19
Reading....................................................................... 19
Scanning ..................................................................... 19
Writing ......................................................................... 19
Pinout Diagrams.................................................................... 1
Pinout I/O Descriptions ......................................................... 4
Power-Down........................................................................ 73
Associated Registers .................................................. 73
Power-on Reset (POR) ....................................................... 60

R
Read Control Register (RCR) ............................................. 27
Reader Response ............................................................... 92
Reading and Writing to the Buffer ....................................... 17
Receive Buffer..................................................................... 17
Receive Filters .................................................................... 47
Broadcast .................................................................... 52
Hash Table.................................................................. 52
Magic Packet .............................................................. 52
Magic Packet Format .................................................. 52
Multicast ...................................................................... 52
Pattern Match.............................................................. 51
Pattern Match Filter Format ........................................ 51
Unicast ........................................................................ 51
Using AND Logic......................................................... 50
Using OR Logic ........................................................... 49
Receive Only Reset ............................................................ 60
Receiving Packets............................................................... 43
Associated Registers .................................................. 46
Calculating Buffer Free Space .................................... 45
Calculating Free Receive Buffer Space ...................... 45
Calculating Random Access Address ......................... 44
Freeing Buffer Space .................................................. 45
Reading....................................................................... 44
Status Vectors............................................................. 44
Registers
EBSTCON (Ethernet Self-Test Control)...................... 75
ECOCON (Clock Output Control) ................................. 6
ECON1 (Ethernet Control 1) ....................................... 15
ECON2 (Ethernet Control 2) ....................................... 16
EFLOCON (Ethernet Flow Control) ............................ 56
EIE (Ethernet Interrupt Enable)................................... 65
EIR (Ethernet Interrupt Request, Flag) ....................... 66
ERXFCON (Ethernet Receive Filter Control) .............. 48
ESTAT (Ethernet Status) ............................................ 64
MABBIPG (MAC Back-to-Back
Inter-Packet Gap)................................................ 36
MACON1 (MAC Control 1).......................................... 34
MACON3 (MAC Control 3).......................................... 35
MACON4 (MAC Control 4).......................................... 36
MICMD (MII Command) .............................................. 21
MISTAT (MII Status) ................................................... 21
PHCON1 (PHY Control 1)........................................... 61

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PHCON2 (PHY Control 2) .......................................... 37
PHID (PHY Device ID)................................................ 22
PHIE (PHY Interrupt Enable) ...................................... 67
PHIR (PHY Interrupt Request, Flag)........................... 67
PHLCON (PHY Module LED Control)........................... 9
PHSTAT1 (Physical Layer Status 1)........................... 23
PHSTAT2 (Physical Layer Status 2)........................... 24
Reset .................................................................................. 59
MAC and PHY Subsystem Resets ............................. 61
Power-on Reset .......................................................... 60
Receive Only Reset .................................................... 60
System Reset ............................................................. 60
Transmit Only Reset ................................................... 60

S
Serial Peripheral Interface. See SPI.
SPI
Bit Field Clear Command............................................ 29
Bit Field Set Command............................................... 29
Instruction Set............................................................. 26
Overview..................................................................... 25
Read Buffer Memory Command ................................. 28
Read Control Register Command............................... 27
System Reset Command............................................ 30
Write Buffer Memory Command ................................. 29
Write Control Register Command............................... 28
System Reset ..................................................................... 60

T
Termination Requirement ..................................................... 7
Timing Diagrams
CLKOUT Transition ...................................................... 6
Read Control Register Command (ETH) .................... 27
Read Control Register Command (MAC/MII) ............. 27
SPI Input ..................................................................... 82
SPI Input Timing ......................................................... 25
SPI Output .................................................................. 82
SPI Output Timing ...................................................... 25
System Reset Command Sequence........................... 30
Write Buffer Memory Command Sequence ................ 29
Write Control Register Command Sequence.............. 28
Transmit Buffer ................................................................... 17
Transmit Only Reset ........................................................... 60
Transmitting Packets .......................................................... 39
Associated Registers .................................................. 42
Status Vectors ............................................................ 41
Typical ENC28J60-Based Interface...................................... 4

U
Unicast Filter....................................................................... 51

W
WWW, On-Line Support ....................................................... 2

Preliminary

© 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
ENC28J60
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CUSTOMER SUPPORT

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PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
To order or obtain information, e.g., on pricing or delivery, refer to the factory or the listed sales office.
PART NO.

-X

Device

Temperature
Range

Examples:

/XX
Package

Device

a)
b)

ENC28J60: Ethernet Controller w/SPI Interface
ENC28J60T: Ethernet Controller w/SPI Interface
(Tape and Reel)

c)
d)
e)

Temperature
Range

I

= -40°C to +85°C (Industrial)
(SPDIP, SOIC and QFN packages only)
C = 0°C to +70°C (Commercial)
(SSOP packages only)

Package

SP
SO
SS
ML

=
=
=
=

f)

ENC28J60-I/SP: Industrial temperature,
SPDIP package.
ENC28J60-I/SO: Industrial temperature,
SOIC package.
ENC28J60T-I/SO: Tape and Reel, Industrial
temperature, SOIC package.
ENC28J60-C/SS: Commercial temperature,
SSOP package.
ENC28J60T-C/SS: Tape and Reel, Comercial
temperature, SSOP package.
ENC28J60-I/ML: Industrial temperature,
QFN package.

SPDIP (Skinny Plastic DIP)
SOIC (Plastic Small Outline)
SSOP (Plastic Shrink Small Outline)
QFN (Quad Flat No Lead)

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  • 1. ENC28J60 Data Sheet Stand-Alone Ethernet Controller with SPI Interface © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B
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  • 3. ENC28J60 Stand-Alone Ethernet Controller with SPI Interface Ethernet Controller Features Operational • IEEE 802.3 compatible Ethernet controller • Integrated MAC and 10BASE-T PHY • Supports one 10BASE-T port with automatic polarity detection and correction • Supports Full and Half-Duplex modes • Programmable automatic retransmit on collision • Programmable padding and CRC generation • Programmable automatic rejection of erroneous packets • SPI Interface with clock speeds up to 20 MHz • • • • • • Six interrupt sources and one interrupt output pin 25 MHz clock input requirement Clock out pin with programmable prescaler Operating voltage of 3.1V to 3.6V (3.3V typical) 5V tolerant inputs Temperature range: -40°C to +85°C Industrial, 0°C to +70°C Commercial (SSOP only) • 28-pin SPDIP, SSOP, SOIC, QFN packages Package Types 28-Pin SPDIP, SSOP, SOIC Medium Access Controller (MAC) Features VDD 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 ENC28J60 8-Kbyte transmit/receive packet dual port SRAM Configurable transmit/receive buffer size Hardware-managed circular receive FIFO Byte-wide random and sequential access with auto-increment • Internal DMA for fast data movement • Hardware assisted checksum calculation for various network protocols • Supports Unicast, Multicast and Broadcast packets • Programmable receive packet filtering and wake-up host on logical AND or OR of the following: - Unicast destination address - Multicast address - Broadcast address - Magic Packet™ - Group destination addresses as defined by 64-bit hash table - Programmable pattern matching of up to 64 bytes at user-defined offset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 VCAP VSS CLKOUT INT NC* SO SI SCK CS RESET VSSRX TPINTPIN+ RBIAS • • • • LEDA LEDB VDDOSC OSC2 OSC1 VSSOSC VSSPLL VDDPLL VDDRX VSSTX TPOUT+ TPOUTVDDTX INT CLKOUT VSS VCAP VDD LEDA LEDB Buffer 28-pin QFN 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 NC* SO SI SCK CS RESET VSSRX 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ENC28J60 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 VDDOSC OSC2 OSC1 VSSOSC VSSPLL VDDPLL VDDRX 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. TPOUTTPOUT+ VSSTX • Loopback mode • Two programmable LED outputs for LINK, TX, RX, collision and full/half-duplex status TPINTPIN+ RBIAS VDDTX Physical Layer (PHY) Features * Reserved pin; always leave disconnected. Preliminary DS39662B-page 1
  • 4. ENC28J60 Table of Contents 1.0 Overview ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 2.0 External Connections ................................................................................................................................................................... 5 3.0 Memory Organization ................................................................................................................................................................. 11 4.0 Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)................................................................................................................................................. 25 5.0 Ethernet Overview ...................................................................................................................................................................... 31 6.0 Initialization................................................................................................................................................................................. 33 7.0 Transmitting and Receiving Packets .......................................................................................................................................... 39 8.0 Receive Filters............................................................................................................................................................................ 47 9.0 Duplex Mode Configuration and Negotiation.............................................................................................................................. 53 10.0 Flow Control ............................................................................................................................................................................... 55 11.0 Reset .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 59 12.0 Interrupts .................................................................................................................................................................................... 63 13.0 Direct Memory Access Controller ............................................................................................................................................... 71 14.0 Power-Down ............................................................................................................................................................................... 73 15.0 Built-in Self-Test Controller ........................................................................................................................................................ 75 16.0 Electrical Characteristics ............................................................................................................................................................ 79 17.0 Packaging Information................................................................................................................................................................ 83 Index .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 89 The Microchip Web Site ....................................................................................................................................................................... 91 Customer Change Notification Service ................................................................................................................................................ 91 Customer Support ................................................................................................................................................................................ 91 Reader Response ................................................................................................................................................................................ 92 Product Identification System............................................................................................................................................................... 93 TO OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS It is our intention to provide our valued customers with the best documentation possible to ensure successful use of your Microchip products. 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  • 5. ENC28J60 1.0 OVERVIEW The ENC28J60 consists of seven major functional blocks: The ENC28J60 is a stand-alone Ethernet controller with an industry standard Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI). It is designed to serve as an Ethernet network interface for any controller equipped with SPI. The ENC28J60 meets all of the IEEE 802.3 specifications. It incorporates a number of packet filtering schemes to limit incoming packets. It also provides an internal DMA module for fast data throughput and hardware assisted checksum calculation, which is used in various network protocols. Communication with the host controller is implemented via an interrupt pin and the SPI, with clock rates of up to 20 MHz. Two dedicated pins are used for LED link and network activity indication. A simple block diagram of the ENC28J60 is shown in Figure 1-1. A typical application circuit using the device is shown in Figure 1-2. With the ENC28J60, two pulse transformers and a few passive components are all that is required to connect a microcontroller to an Ethernet network. FIGURE 1-1: 1. An SPI interface that serves as a communication channel between the host controller and the ENC28J60. Control Registers which are used to control and monitor the ENC28J60. A dual port RAM buffer for received and transmitted data packets. An arbiter to control the access to the RAM buffer when requests are made from DMA, transmit and receive blocks. The bus interface that interprets data and commands received via the SPI interface. The MAC (Medium Access Control) module that implements IEEE 802.3 compliant MAC logic. The PHY (Physical Layer) module that encodes and decodes the analog data that is present on the twisted pair interface. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. The device also contains other support blocks, such as the oscillator, on-chip voltage regulator, level translators to provide 5V tolerant I/Os and system control logic. ENC28J60 BLOCK DIAGRAM LEDA Buffer LEDB RX 8 Kbytes Dual Port RAM MAC RXBM TPOUT+ RXF (Filter) CLKOUT Control Registers TX MII Interface ch0 Arbiter ch0 ch1 DMA & Checksum PHY TPOUT- TPIN+ TX ch1 RX TXBM INT TPIN- Flow Control Bus Interface MIIM Interface RBIAS Host Interface CS(1) SI(1) SO OSC1 SPI System Control Power-on Reset Voltage Regulator 25 MHz Oscillator OSC2 SCK(1) VCAP RESET(1) Note 1: These pins are 5V tolerant. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 3
  • 6. ENC28J60 FIGURE 1-2: TYPICAL ENC28J60-BASED INTERFACE MCU ENC28J60 TPIN+/- CS I/O SDO SO SDI SCK SCK RJ45 TPOUT+/- SI TX/RX Buffer MAC ETHERNET TRANSFORMER PHY LEDA INT INTX LEDB TABLE 1-1: PINOUT I/O DESCRIPTIONS Pin Number SPDIP, SOIC, SSOP QFN Pin Type Buffer Type VCAP 1 25 P — 2.5V output from internal regulator. A low Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR) capacitor, with a typical value of 10 μF and a minimum value of 1 μF to ground, must be placed on this pin. VSS 2 26 P — Ground reference. CLKOUT 3 27 O — Programmable clock output pin.(1) INT 4 28 O — INT interrupt output pin.(2) NC 5 1 O — Reserved function; always leave unconnected. SO 6 2 O — Data out pin for SPI interface.(2) SI 7 3 I ST Data in pin for SPI interface.(3) SCK 8 4 I ST Clock in pin for SPI interface.(3) CS 9 5 I ST Chip select input pin for SPI interface.(3,4) RESET 10 6 I ST Active-low device Reset input.(3, 4) VSSRX 11 7 P — Ground reference for PHY RX. TPIN- 12 8 I ANA Differential signal input. TPIN+ 13 9 I ANA Differential signal input. RBIAS 14 10 I ANA Bias current pin for PHY. Must be tied to ground via a resistor (refer to Section 2.4 “Magnetics, Termination and Other External Components” for details). VDDTX 15 11 P — Positive supply for PHY TX. TPOUT- 16 12 O — Differential signal output. TPOUT+ 17 13 O — Differential signal output. VSSTX 18 14 P — Ground reference for PHY TX. VDDRX 19 15 P — Positive 3.3V supply for PHY RX. VDDPLL 20 16 P — Positive 3.3V supply for PHY PLL. VSSPLL 21 17 P — Ground reference for PHY PLL. VSSOSC 22 18 P — Ground reference for oscillator. OSC1 23 19 I ANA OSC2 24 20 O — Oscillator output. VDDOSC 25 21 P — Positive 3.3V supply for oscillator. LEDB 26 22 O — LEDB driver pin.(5) LEDA 27 23 O — LEDA driver pin.(5) 28 24 P — Positive 3.3V supply. Pin Name VDD Legend: Note 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: Description Oscillator input. I = Input, O = Output, P = Power, DIG = Digital input, ANA = Analog signal input, ST = Schmitt Trigger Pins have a maximum current capacity of 8 mA. Pins have a maximum current capacity of 4 mA. Pins are 5V tolerant. Pins have an internal weak pull-up to VDD. Pins have a maximum current capacity of 12 mA. DS39662B-page 4 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 7. ENC28J60 2.0 EXTERNAL CONNECTIONS 2.1 Oscillator 2.2 The ENC28J60 is designed to operate at 25 MHz with a crystal connected to the OSC1 and OSC2 pins. The ENC28J60 design requires the use of a parallel cut crystal. Use of a series cut crystal may give a frequency out of the crystal manufacturer specifications. A typical oscillator circuit is shown in Figure 2-1. The ENC28J60 may also be driven by an external clock source connected to the OSC1 pin as shown in Figure 2-2. FIGURE 2-1: CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR OPERATION The ENC28J60 contains an Oscillator Start-up Timer (OST) to ensure that the oscillator and integrated PHY have stabilized before use. The OST does not expire until 7500 OSC1 clock cycles (300 μs) pass after Power-on Reset or wake-up from Power-Down mode occurs. During the delay, all Ethernet registers and buffer memory may still be read and written to through the SPI bus. However, software should not attempt to transmit any packets (set ECON1.TXRTS), enable reception of packets (set ECON1.RXEN) or access any MAC, MII or PHY registers during this period. When the OST expires, the CLKRDY bit in the ESTAT register will be set. The application software should poll this bit as necessary to determine when normal device operation can begin. Note: ENC28J60 OSC1 C1 Oscillator Start-up Timer To Internal Logic XTAL After a Power-on Reset, or the ENC28J60 is removed from Power-Down mode, the CLKRDY bit must be polled before transmitting packets, enabling packet reception or accessing any MAC, MII or PHY registers. RF(2) RS(1) OSC2 C2 Note 1: A series resistor, RS, may be required for AT strip cut crystals. 2: The feedback resistor, RF , is typically in the range of 2 to 10 MΩ. FIGURE 2-2: EXTERNAL CLOCK SOURCE(1) ENC28J60 3.3V Clock from External System Open(2) Note 1: 2: OSC1 OSC2 Duty cycle restrictions must be observed. A resistor to ground may be used to reduce system noise. This may increase system current. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 5
  • 8. ENC28J60 2.3 CLKOUT Pin The clock out pin is provided to the system designer for use as the host controller clock or as a clock source for other devices in the system. The CLKOUT has an internal prescaler which can divide the output by 1, 2, 3, 4 or 8. The CLKOUT function is enabled and the prescaler is selected via the ECOCON register (Register 2-1). To create a clean clock signal, the CLKOUT pin is held low for a period when power is first applied. After the Power-on Reset ends, the OST will begin counting. When the OST expires, the CLKOUT pin will begin outputting its default frequency of 6.25 MHz (main clock divided by 4). At any future time that the ENC28J60 is reset by software or the RESET pin, the CLKOUT function will not be altered (ECOCON will not change FIGURE 2-3: value). Additionally, Power-Down mode may be entered and the CLKOUT function will continue to operate. When Power-Down mode is cancelled, the OST will be reset but the CLKOUT function will continue. When the CLKOUT function is disabled (ECOCON = 0), the CLKOUT pin is driven low. The CLKOUT function is designed to ensure that minimum timings are preserved when the CLKOUT pin function is enabled, disabled or the prescaler value is changed. No high or low pulses will be outputted which exceed the frequency specified by the ECOCON configuration. However, when switching frequencies, a delay between two and eight OSC1 clock periods will occur where no clock pulses will be produced (see Figure 2-3). During this period, CLKOUT will be held low. CLKOUT TRANSITION ECOCON Changed REGISTER 2-1: 80 ns to 320 ns Delay ECOCON: CLOCK OUTPUT CONTROL REGISTER U-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 R/W-1 R/W-0 R/W-0 — — — — — COCON2 COCON1 COCON0 bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 7-3 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 2-0 COCON2:COCON0: Clock Output Configuration bits 11x = Reserved for factory test. Do not use. Glitch prevention not assured. 101 = CLKOUT outputs main clock divided by 8 (3.125 MHz) 100 = CLKOUT outputs main clock divided by 4 (6.25 MHz) 011 = CLKOUT outputs main clock divided by 3 (8.333333 MHz) 010 = CLKOUT outputs main clock divided by 2 (12.5 MHz) 001 = CLKOUT outputs main clock divided by 1 (25 MHz) 000 = CLKOUT is disabled. The pin is driven low. DS39662B-page 6 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 9. ENC28J60 2.4 Magnetics, Termination and Other External Components To complete the Ethernet interface, the ENC28J60 requires several standard components to be installed externally. These components should be connected as shown in Figure 2-4. The internal analog circuitry in the PHY module requires that an external 2.32 kΩ, 1% resistor be attached from RBIAS to ground. The resistor influences the TPOUT+/signal amplitude. The resistor should be placed as close as possible to the chip with no immediately adjacent signal traces to prevent noise capacitively coupling into the pin and affecting the transmit behavior. It is recommended that the resistor be a surface mount type. Some of the device’s digital logic operates at a nominal 2.5V. An on-chip voltage regulator is incorporated to generate this voltage. The only external component required is an external filter capacitor, connected from VCAP to ground. The capacitor must have low equivalent-series resistance (ESR), with a typical value of 10 μF, and a minimum value of 1 μF. The internal regulator is not designed to drive external loads. On the TPIN+/TPIN- and TPOUT+/TPOUT- pins, 1:1 center-taped pulse transformers rated for Ethernet operations are required. When the Ethernet module is enabled, current is continually sunk through both TPOUT pins. When the PHY is actively transmitting, a differential voltage is created on the Ethernet cable by varying the relative current sunk by TPOUT+ compared to TPOUT-. FIGURE 2-4: A common-mode choke on the TPOUT interface, placed between the TPOUT pins and the Ethernet transformer (not shown), is not recommend. If a common-mode choke is used to reduce EMI emissions, it should be placed between the Ethernet transformer and pins 1 and 2 of the RJ-45 connector. Many Ethernet transformer modules include common-mode chokes inside the same device package. The transformers should have at least the isolation rating specified in Table 16-5 to protect against static voltages and meet IEEE 802.3 isolation requirements (see Section 16.0 “Electrical Characteristics” for specific transformer requirements). Both transmit and receive interfaces additionally require two resistors and a capacitor to properly terminate the transmission line, minimizing signal reflections. All power supply pins must be externally connected to the same power source. Similarly, all ground references must be externally connected to the same ground node. Each VDD and VSS pin pair should have a 0.1 μF ceramic bypass capacitor (not shown in the schematic) placed as close to the pins as possible. Since relatively high currents are necessary to operate the twisted-pair interface, all wires should be kept as short as possible. Reasonable wire widths should be used on power wires to reduce resistive loss. If the differential data lines cannot be kept short, they should be routed in such a way as to have a 100Ω characteristic impedance. ENC28J60 ETHERNET TERMINATION AND EXTERNAL CONNECTIONS 3.3V ENC28J60 MCU TPOUT+ I/O SCK SDO SDI 49.9Ω, 1% 0.1 μF(3) 2 TPOUT- 3 1:1 CT TPIN+ Level Shift Logic(2) 4 49.9Ω, 1% 5 49.9Ω, 1% INT0 1 Ferrite Bead(1,3) 49.9Ω, 1% CS SCK SI SO RJ-45 1 INT 0.1 μF 1:1 CT TPIN- 6 RBIAS VCAP LEDA 7 LEDB 8 2.32 kΩ, 1% 10 μF 75Ω(3) 75Ω(3) 75Ω(3) 75Ω(3) 1 nF, 2 kV(3) Note 1: Ferrite Bead should be rated for at least 80 mA. 2: Required only if the microcontroller is operating at 5V. See Section 2.5 “I/O Levels” for more information. 3: These components are installed for EMI reduction purposes. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 7
  • 10. ENC28J60 2.5 I/O Levels 2.6 The ENC28J60 is a 3.3V part; however, it was designed to be easily integrated into 5V systems. The SPI CS, SCK and SI inputs, as well as the RESET pin, are all 5V tolerant. On the other hand, if the host controller is operated at 5V, it quite likely will not be within specifications when its SPI and interrupt inputs are driven by the 3.3V CMOS outputs on the ENC28J60. A unidirectional level translator would be necessary. An economical 74HCT08 (quad AND gate), 74ACT125 (quad 3-state buffer) or many other 5V CMOS chips with TTL level input buffers may be used to provide the necessary level shifting. The use of 3-state buffers permits easy integration into systems which share the SPI bus with other devices. Figure 2-5 and Figure 2-6 show example translation schemes. FIGURE 2-5: MCU LEVEL SHIFTING USING AND GATES ENC28J60 I/O SCK LED Configuration The LEDA and LEDB pins support automatic polarity detection on Reset. The LEDs can be connected such that the pin must source current to turn the LED on, or alternately connected such that the pin must sink current to turn the LED on. Upon system Reset, the ENC28J60 will detect how the LED is connected and begin driving the LED to the default state configured by the PHLCON register. If the LED polarity is changed while the ENC28J60 is operating, the new polarity will not be detected until the next system Reset occurs. LEDB is unique in that the connection of the LED is automatically read on Reset and determines how to initialize the PHCON1.PDPXMD bit. If the pin sources current to illuminate the LED, the bit is cleared on Reset and the PHY defaults to half-duplex operation. If the pin sinks current to illuminate the LED, the bit is set on Reset and the PHY defaults to full-duplex operation. Figure 2-7 shows the two available options. If no LED is attached to the LEDB pin, the PDPXMD bit will reset to an indeterminate value. FIGURE 2-7: LEDB POLARITY AND RESET CONFIGURATION OPTIONS CS SCK SO SI SI SO OSC1 INT0 Full-Duplex Operation: PDPXMD = 1 CLKOUT +3.3V LEDB INT Half-Duplex Operation: PDPXMD = 0 FIGURE 2-6: LEVEL SHIFTING USING 3-STATE BUFFERS LEDB ENC28J60 MCU I/O SCK CS SCK SO SI SI SO OSC1 INT0 CLKOUT INT The LEDs can also be configured separately to control their operating polarity (on or off when active), blink rate and blink stretch interval. The options are controlled by the LACFG3:LACFG0 and LBCFG3:LBCFG0 bits. Typical values for blink stretch are listed in Table 2-1. TABLE 2-1: LED BLINK STRETCH LENGTH Stretch Length Typical Stretch (ms) TNSTRCH (normal) 70 TLSTRCH (long) DS39662B-page 8 40 TMSTRCH (medium) 140 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 11. ENC28J60 REGISTER 2-2: PHLCON: PHY MODULE LED CONTROL REGISTER R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-1 R/W-1 R/W-0 R/W-1 R/W-0 R/W-0 r r r r LACFG3 LACFG2 LACFG1 LACFG0 bit 15 bit 8 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-1 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-1 R/W-x LBCFG3 LBCFG2 LBCFG1 LBCFG0 LFRQ1 LFRQ0 STRCH r bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 15-14 Reserved: Write as ‘0’ bit 13-12 Reserved: Write as ‘1’ bit 11-8 LACFG3:LACFG0: LEDA Configuration bits 1111 = Reserved 1110 = Display duplex status and collision activity (always stretched) 1101 = Display link status and transmit/receive activity (always stretched) 1100 = Display link status and receive activity (always stretched) 1011 = Blink slow 1010 = Blink fast 1001 = Off 1000 = On 0111 = Display transmit and receive activity (stretchable) 0110 = Reserved 0101 = Display duplex status 0100 = Display link status 0011 = Display collision activity (stretchable) 0010 = Display receive activity (stretchable) 0001 = Display transmit activity (stretchable) 0000 = Reserved bit 7-4 LBCFG3:LBCFG0: LEDB Configuration bits 1110 = Display duplex status and collision activity (always stretched) 1101 = Display link status and transmit/receive activity (always stretched) 1100 = Display link status and receive activity (always stretched) 1011 = Blink slow 1010 = Blink fast 1001 = Off 1000 = On 0111 = Display transmit and receive activity (stretchable) 0110 = Reserved 0101 = Display duplex status 0100 = Display link status 0011 = Display collision activity (stretchable) 0010 = Display receive activity (stretchable) 0001 = Display transmit activity (stretchable) 0000 = Reserved bit 3-2 LFRQ1:LFRQ0: LED Pulse Stretch Time Configuration bits (see Table 2-1) 11 = Reserved 10 = Stretch LED events by TLSTRCH 01 = Stretch LED events by TMSTRCH 00 = Stretch LED events by TNSTRCH bit 1 STRCH: LED Pulse Stretching Enable bit 1 = Stretchable LED events will cause lengthened LED pulses based on LFRQ1:LFRQ0 configuration 0 = Stretchable LED events will only be displayed while they are occurring bit 0 Reserved: Write as ‘0’ © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 9
  • 13. ENC28J60 3.0 MEMORY ORGANIZATION All memory in the ENC28J60 is implemented as static RAM. There are three types of memory in the ENC28J60: • Control Registers • Ethernet Buffer • PHY Registers The Control registers’ memory contains the registers that are used for configuration, control and status retrieval of the ENC28J60. The Control registers are directly read and written to by the SPI interface. The Ethernet buffer contains transmit and receive memory used by the Ethernet controller in a single memory space. The sizes of the memory areas are programmable by the host controller using the SPI interface. The Ethernet buffer memory can only be accessed via the read buffer memory and write buffer memory SPI commands (see Section 4.2.2 “Read Buffer Memory Command” and Section 4.2.4 “Write Buffer Memory Command”). The PHY registers are used for configuration, control and status retrieval of the PHY module. The registers are not directly accessible through the SPI interface; they can only be accessed through Media Independent Interface Management (MIIM) implemented in the MAC. Figure 3-1 shows the data memory organization for the ENC28J60. FIGURE 3-1: ENC28J60 MEMORY ORGANIZATION ECON1<1:0> Control Registers Ethernet Buffer 00h 0000h Buffer Pointers in Bank 0 = 00 Bank 0 19h 1Ah 1Fh 00h Common Registers = 01 Bank 1 19h 1Ah 1Fh 00h Common Registers = 10 Bank 2 19h 1Ah 1Fh 00h Common Registers = 11 Bank 3 19h 1Ah 1Fh Note: 1FFFh PHY Registers Common Registers 00h 1Fh Memory areas are not shown to scale. The size of the control memory space has been scaled to show detail. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 11
  • 14. ENC28J60 3.1 Control Registers Some of the available addresses are unimplemented. Any attempts to write to these locations are ignored while reads return ‘0’s. The register at address 1Ah in each bank is reserved; read and write operations should not be performed on this register. All other reserved registers may be read, but their contents must not be changed. When reading and writing to registers which contain reserved bits, any rules stated in the register definition should be observed. The Control Registers provide the main interface between the host controller and the on-chip Ethernet controller logic. Writing to these registers controls the operation of the interface, while reading the registers allows the host controller to monitor operations. The Control Register memory is partitioned into four banks, selectable by the bank select bits BSEL1:BSEL0 in the ECON1 register. Each bank is 32 bytes long and addressed by a 5-bit address value. Control registers for the ENC28J60 are generically grouped as ETH, MAC and MII registers. Register names starting with “E” belong to the ETH group. Similarly, registers names starting with “MA” belong to the MAC group and registers prefixed with “MI” belong to the MII group. The last five locations (1Bh to 1Fh) of all banks point to a common set of registers: EIE, EIR, ESTAT, ECON2 and ECON1. These are key registers used in controlling and monitoring the operation of the device. Their common mapping allows easy access without switching the bank. The ECON1 and ECON2 registers are discussed later in this section. TABLE 3-1: Bank 0 Address 00h ENC28J60 CONTROL REGISTER MAP Name Bank 1 Address Name Bank 2 Address Name Bank 3 Address 00h Name ERDPTL 00h EHT0 00h MACON1 MAADR5 01h ERDPTH 01h EHT1 01h Reserved 01h MAADR6 02h EWRPTL 02h EHT2 02h MACON3 02h MAADR3 03h EWRPTH 03h EHT3 03h MACON4 03h MAADR4 04h ETXSTL 04h EHT4 04h MABBIPG 04h MAADR1 MAADR2 05h ETXSTH 05h EHT5 05h — 05h 06h ETXNDL 06h EHT6 06h MAIPGL 06h EBSTSD 07h ETXNDH 07h EHT7 07h MAIPGH 07h EBSTCON 08h ERXSTL 08h EPMM0 08h MACLCON1 08h EBSTCSL 09h ERXSTH 09h EPMM1 09h MACLCON2 09h EBSTCSH 0Ah ERXNDL 0Ah EPMM2 0Ah MAMXFLL 0Ah MISTAT 0Bh ERXNDH 0Bh EPMM3 0Bh MAMXFLH 0Bh — 0Ch ERXRDPTL 0Ch EPMM4 0Ch Reserved 0Ch — 0Dh ERXRDPTH 0Dh EPMM5 0Dh Reserved 0Dh — 0Eh ERXWRPTL 0Eh EPMM6 0Eh Reserved 0Eh — 0Fh ERXWRPTH 0Fh EPMM7 0Fh — 0Fh — 10h EDMASTL 10h EPMCSL 10h Reserved 10h — 11h EDMASTH 11h EPMCSH 11h Reserved 11h — 12h EDMANDL 12h — 12h MICMD 12h EREVID 13h EDMANDH 13h — 13h — 13h — 14h EDMADSTL 14h EPMOL 14h MIREGADR 14h — 15h EDMADSTH 15h EPMOH 15h Reserved 15h ECOCON 16h EDMACSL 16h Reserved 16h MIWRL 16h Reserved 17h EDMACSH 17h Reserved 17h MIWRH 17h EFLOCON 18h — 18h ERXFCON 18h MIRDL 18h EPAUSL 19h — 19h EPKTCNT 19h MIRDH 19h EPAUSH 1Ah Reserved 1Ah Reserved 1Ah Reserved 1Ah Reserved 1Bh EIE 1Bh EIE 1Bh EIE 1Bh EIE 1Ch EIR 1Ch EIR 1Ch EIR 1Ch EIR 1Dh ESTAT 1Dh ESTAT 1Dh ESTAT 1Dh ESTAT 1Eh ECON2 1Eh ECON2 1Eh ECON2 1Eh ECON2 1Fh ECON1 1Fh ECON1 1Fh ECON1 1Fh ECON1 DS39662B-page 12 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 15. ENC28J60 TABLE 3-2: ENC28J60 CONTROL REGISTER SUMMARY Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0 Value on Reset Details on Page TXIE r TXERIE RXERIE 0000 0000 65 TXIF r TXERIF RXERIF -000 0000 66 — RXBUSY TXABRT CLKRDY(1) 0000 -000 64 Register Name Bit 7 Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4 Bit 3 EIE INTIE PKTIE DMAIE LINKIE EIR — PKTIF DMAIF LINKIF ESTAT INT BUFER r LATECOL ECON2 AUTOINC PKTDEC PWRSV r VRPS — — — 1000 0--- 16 ECON1 TXRST RXRST DMAST CSUMEN TXRTS RXEN BSEL1 BSEL0 0000 0000 15 1111 1010 17 ERDPTL ERDPTH EWRPTL EWRPTH ETXSTL ETXSTH ETXNDL ETXNDH ERXSTL ERXSTH ERXNDL ERXNDH ERXRDPTL ERXRDPTH ERXWRPTL ERXWRPTH EDMASTL EDMASTH EDMANDL EDMANDH EDMADSTL EDMADSTH EDMACSL Read Pointer Low Byte ERDPT<7:0>) — — — Read Pointer High Byte (ERDPT<12:8>) — — — Write Pointer High Byte (EWRPT<12:8>) — — TX Start High Byte (ETXST<12:8>) — — TX End High Byte (ETXND<12:8>) — — RX Start High Byte (ERXST<12:8>) — — RX End High Byte (ERXND<12:8>) — — RX RD Pointer High Byte (ERXRDPT<12:8>) — — RX WR Pointer High Byte (ERXWRPT<12:8>) — — DMA Start High Byte (EDMAST<12:8>) — — DMA End High Byte (EDMAND<12:8>) — — 17 17 ---1 1111 17 17 ---0 0101 17 17 ---0 0000 17 71 ---0 0000 71 71 DMA Destination High Byte (EDMADST<12:8>) ---0 0000 71 0000 0000 DMA Destination Low Byte (EDMADST<7:0>) — ---0 0101 0000 0000 DMA End Low Byte (EDMAND<7:0>) — 17 17 0000 0000 DMA Start Low Byte (EDMAST<7:0>) — ---0 0000 0000 0000 RX WR Pointer Low Byte (ERXWRPT<7:0>) — 17 17 1111 1010 RX RD Pointer Low Byte (ERXRDPT<7:0>) — ---0 0000 1111 1111 RX End Low Byte (ERXND<7:0>) — 17 17 1111 1010 RX Start Low Byte (ERXST<7:0>) — ---0 0000 0000 0000 TX End Low Byte (ETXND<7:0>) — 17 0000 0000 TX Start Low Byte (ETXST<7:0>) — 17 0000 0000 Write Pointer Low Byte (EWRPT<7:0>) ---0 0101 71 ---0 0000 71 0000 0000 DMA Checksum Low Byte (EDMACS<7:0>) 72 EDMACSH DMA Checksum High Byte (EDMACS<15:8>) 0000 0000 72 EHT0 Hash Table Byte 0 (EHT<7:0>) 0000 0000 52 EHT1 Hash Table Byte 1 (EHT<15:8>) 0000 0000 52 EHT2 Hash Table Byte 2 (EHT<23:16>) 0000 0000 52 EHT3 Hash Table Byte 3 (EHT<31:24>) 0000 0000 52 EHT4 Hash Table Byte 4 (EHT<39:32>) 0000 0000 52 EHT5 Hash Table Byte 5 (EHT<47:40>) 0000 0000 52 EHT6 Hash Table Byte 6 (EHT<55:48>) 0000 0000 52 EHT7 Hash Table Byte 7 (EHT<63:56>) 0000 0000 52 EPMM0 Pattern Match Mask Byte 0 (EPMM<7:0>) 0000 0000 51 EPMM1 Pattern Match Mask Byte 1 (EPMM<15:8>) 0000 0000 51 EPMM2 Pattern Match Mask Byte 2 (EPMM<23:16>) 0000 0000 51 EPMM3 Pattern Match Mask Byte 3 (EPMM<31:24>) 0000 0000 51 EPMM4 Pattern Match Mask Byte 4 (EPMM<39:32>) 0000 0000 51 EPMM5 Pattern Match Mask Byte 5 (EPMM<47:40>) 0000 0000 51 EPMM6 Pattern Match Mask Byte 6 (EPMM<55:48>) 0000 0000 51 Pattern Match Mask Byte 7 (EPMM<63:56>) 0000 0000 51 EPMM7 Legend: Note 1: 2: 3: x = unknown, u = unchanged, — = unimplemented, q = value depends on condition, r = reserved, do not modify. CLKRDY resets to ‘0’ on Power-on Reset but is unaffected on all other Resets. EREVID is a read-only register. ECOCON resets to ‘---- -100’ on Power-on Reset and ‘---- -uuu’ on all other Resets. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 13
  • 16. ENC28J60 TABLE 3-2: ENC28J60 CONTROL REGISTER SUMMARY (CONTINUED) Register Name Bit 7 Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0 Value on Reset Details on Page EPMCSL Pattern Match Checksum Low Byte (EPMCS<7:0>) 0000 0000 51 EPMCSH Pattern Match Checksum High Byte (EPMCS<15:0>) 0000 0000 51 EPMOL Pattern Match Offset Low Byte (EPMO<7:0>) EPMOH ERXFCON EPKTCNT — — — UCEN ANDOR CRCEN 0000 0000 PMEN MPEN HTEN MCEN BCEN 51 ---0 0000 Pattern Match Offset High Byte (EPMO<12:8>) 51 1010 0001 48 0000 0000 Ethernet Packet Count 43 MACON1 — — — r TXPAUS RXPAUS PASSALL MARXEN ---0 0000 34 MACON3 PADCFG2 PADCFG1 PADCFG0 TXCRCEN PHDREN HFRMEN FRMLNEN FULDPX 0000 0000 35 MACON4 — DEFER BPEN NOBKOFF — — r r -000 --00 36 MABBIPG — Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap (BBIPG<6:0>) -000 0000 36 MAIPGL — Non-Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap Low Byte (MAIPGL<6:0>) -000 0000 34 MAIPGH — Non-Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap High Byte (MAIPGH<6:0>) -000 0000 34 MACLCON1 — — ---- 1111 34 — — --11 0111 34 MACLCON2 — — Retransmission Maximum (RETMAX<3:0>) Collision Window (COLWIN<5:0>) MAMXFLL Maximum Frame Length Low Byte (MAMXFL<7:0>) 0000 0000 34 MAMXFLH Maximum Frame Length High Byte (MAMXFL<15:8>) 0000 0110 34 MICMD — — — MIREGADR — — — — — — MIISCAN MIIRD ---- --00 21 ---0 0000 MII Register Address (MIREGADR<4:0>) 19 MIWRL MII Write Data Low Byte (MIWR<7:0>) 0000 0000 19 MIWRH MII Write Data High Byte (MIWR<15:8>) 0000 0000 19 MIRDL MII Read Data Low Byte (MIRD<7:0>) 0000 0000 19 MIRDH MII Read Data High Byte(MIRD<15:8>) 0000 0000 19 MAADR5 MAC Address Byte 5 (MAADR<15:8>) 0000 0000 34 MAADR6 MAC Address Byte 6 (MAADR<7:0>) 0000 0000 34 34 MAADR3 MAC Address Byte 3 (MAADR<31:24>), OUI Byte 3 0000 0000 MAADR4 MAC Address Byte 4 (MAADR<23:16>) 0000 0000 34 MAADR1 MAC Address Byte 1 (MAADR<47:40>), OUI Byte 1 0000 0000 34 MAADR2 MAC Address Byte 2 (MAADR<39:32>), OUI Byte 2 0000 0000 34 EBSTSD Built-in Self-Test Fill Seed (EBSTSD<7:0>) 0000 0000 76 EBSTCON PSV2 PSV1 PSV0 PSEL EBSTCSL EBSTCSH TMSEL1 TMSEL0 TME BISTST Built-in Self-Test Checksum High Byte (EBSTCS<15:8>) 75 76 0000 0000 MISTAT — — — EREVID(2) — — — ECOCON(3) — — — — — EFLOCON — — — — — — 0000 0000 0000 0000 Built-in Self-Test Checksum Low Byte (EBSTCS<7:0>) r 76 SCAN BUSY ---- 0000 21 ---q qqqq 22 COCON2 COCON1 COCON0 ---- -100 6 FULDPXS FCEN1 FCEN0 ---- -000 56 NVALID Ethernet Revision ID (EREVID<4:0>) EPAUSL Pause Timer Value Low Byte (EPAUS<7:0>) 0000 0000 57 EPAUSH Pause Timer Value High Byte (EPAUS<15:8>) 0001 0000 57 Legend: Note 1: 2: 3: x = unknown, u = unchanged, — = unimplemented, q = value depends on condition, r = reserved, do not modify. CLKRDY resets to ‘0’ on Power-on Reset but is unaffected on all other Resets. EREVID is a read-only register. ECOCON resets to ‘---- -100’ on Power-on Reset and ‘---- -uuu’ on all other Resets. DS39662B-page 14 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 17. ENC28J60 3.1.1 ECON1 REGISTER The ECON1 register, shown in Register 3-1, is used to control the main functions of the ENC28J60. Receive enable, transmit request, DMA control and bank select bits can all be found in ECON1. REGISTER 3-1: ECON1: ETHERNET CONTROL REGISTER 1 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 TXRST RXRST DMAST CSUMEN TXRTS RXEN BSEL1 BSEL0 bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 7 TXRST: Transmit Logic Reset bit 1 = Transmit logic is held in Reset 0 = Normal operation bit 6 RXRST: Receive Logic Reset bit 1 = Receive logic is held in Reset 0 = Normal operations bit 5 DMAST: DMA Start and Busy Status bit 1 = DMA copy or checksum operation is in progress 0 = DMA hardware is Idle bit 4 CSUMEN: DMA Checksum Enable bit 1 = DMA hardware calculates checksums 0 = DMA hardware copies buffer memory bit 3 TXRTS: Transmit Request to Send bit 1 = The transmit logic is attempting to transmit a packet 0 = The transmit logic is Idle bit 2 RXEN: Receive Enable bit 1 = Packets which pass the current filter configuration will be written into the receive buffer 0 = All packets received will be ignored bit 1-0 BSEL1:BSEL0: Bank Select bits 11 = SPI accesses registers in Bank 3 10 = SPI accesses registers in Bank 2 01 = SPI accesses registers in Bank 1 00 = SPI accesses registers in Bank 0 © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 15
  • 18. ENC28J60 3.1.2 ECON2 REGISTER The ECON2 register, shown in Register 3-2, is used to control other main functions of the ENC28J60. REGISTER 3-2: ECON2: ETHERNET CONTROL REGISTER 2 R/W-0(1) R/W-1 AUTOINC PKTDEC R/W-0 PWRSV R/W-0 R/W-0 U-0 U-0 VRPS r U-0 — — — bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 7 AUTOINC: Automatic Buffer Pointer Increment Enable bit 1 = Automatically increment ERDPT or EWRPT on reading from or writing to EDATA 0 = Do not automatically change ERDPT and EWRPT after the buffer is accessed bit 6 PKTDEC: Packet Decrement bit 1 = Decrement the EPKTCNT register by one 0 = Leave EPKTCNT unchanged bit 5 PWRSV: Power Save Enable bit 1 = MAC, PHY and control logic are in Low-Power Sleep mode 0 = Normal operation bit 4 Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’ bit 3 VRPS: Voltage Regulator Power Save Enable bit When PWRSV = 1: 1 = Internal voltage regulator is in Low-Current mode 0 = Internal voltage regulator is in Normal Current mode When PWRSV = 0: The bit is ignored; the regulator always outputs as much current as the device requires. bit 2-0 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ Note 1: This bit is automatically cleared once it is set. DS39662B-page 16 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 19. ENC28J60 3.2 3.2.2 Ethernet Buffer The Ethernet buffer contains transmit and receive memory used by the Ethernet controller. The entire buffer is 8 Kbytes, divided into separate receive and transmit buffer spaces. The sizes and locations of transmit and receive memory are fully programmable by the host controller using the SPI interface. The relationship of the buffer spaces is shown in Figure 3-2. 3.2.1 RECEIVE BUFFER The receive buffer constitutes a circular FIFO buffer managed by hardware. The register pairs ERXSTH:ERXSTL and ERXNDH:ERXNDL serve as Pointers to define the buffer’s size and location within the memory. The byte pointed to by ERXST and the byte pointed to by ERXND are both included in the FIFO buffer. As bytes of data are received from the Ethernet interface, they are written into the receive buffer sequentially. However, after the memory pointed to by ERXND is written to, the hardware will automatically write the next byte of received data to the memory pointed to by ERXST. As a result, the receive hardware will never write outside the boundaries of the FIFO. The host controller may program the ERXST and ERXND Pointers when the receive logic is not enabled. The Pointers must not be modified while the receive logic is enabled (ECON1.RXEN is set). If desired, the Pointers may span the 1FFFh to 0000h memory boundary; the hardware will still operate as a FIFO. The ERXWRPTH:ERXWRPTL registers define a location within the FIFO where the hardware will write bytes that it receives. The Pointer is read-only and is automatically updated by the hardware whenever a new packet is successfully received. The Pointer is useful for determining how much free space is available within the FIFO. The ERXRDPT registers define a location within the FIFO where the receive hardware is forbidden to write to. In normal operation, the receive hardware will write data up to, but not including, the memory pointed to by ERXRDPT. If the FIFO fills up with data and new data continues to arrive, the hardware will not overwrite the previously received data. Instead, the new data will be thrown away and the old data will be preserved. In order to continuously receive new data, the host controller must periodically advance this Pointer whenever it finishes processing some, or all, of the old received data. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. TRANSMIT BUFFER Any space within the 8-Kbyte memory, which is not programmed as part of the receive FIFO buffer, is considered to be the transmit buffer. The responsibility of managing where packets are located in the transmit buffer belongs to the host controller. Whenever the host controller decides to transmit a packet, the ETXST and ETXND Pointers are programmed with addresses specifying where, within the transmit buffer, the particular packet to transmit is located. The hardware does not check that the start and end addresses do not overlap with the receive buffer. To prevent buffer corruption, the host controller must make sure to not transmit a packet while the ETXST and ETXND Pointers are overlapping the receive buffer, or while the ETXND Pointer is too close to the receive buffer. See Section 7.1 “Transmitting Packets” for more information. 3.2.3 READING AND WRITING TO THE BUFFER The Ethernet buffer contents are accessed from the host controller though separate Read and Write Pointers (ERDPT and EWRPT) combined with the read buffer memory and write buffer memory SPI commands. While sequentially reading from the receive buffer, a wrapping condition will occur at the end of the receive buffer. While sequentially writing to the buffer, no wrapping conditions will occur. See Section 4.2.2 “Read Buffer Memory Command” and Section 4.2.4 “Write Buffer Memory Command” for more information. 3.2.4 DMA ACCESS TO THE BUFFER The integrated DMA controller must read from the buffer when calculating a checksum and it must read and write to the buffer when copying memory. The DMA follows the same wrapping rules that SPI accesses do. While it sequentially reads, it will be subject to a wrapping condition at the end of the receive buffer. All writes it does will not be subject to any wrapping conditions. See Section 13.0 “Direct Memory Access Controller” for more information. Preliminary DS39662B-page 17
  • 20. ENC28J60 FIGURE 3-2: ETHERNET BUFFER ORGANIZATION Transmit Buffer Start (ETXSTH:ETXSTL) 0000h Buffer Write Pointer (EWRPTH:EWRPTL) Transmit Buffer Data AAh (WBM AAh) Transmit Transmit Buffer End (ETXNDH:ETXNDL) Buffer Receive Buffer Start (ERXSTH:ERXSTL) Receive Buffer (Circular FIFO) Buffer Read Pointer (ERDPTH:ERDPTL) Receive Buffer Data (RBM 55h) 55h Receive Buffer End 1FFFh (ERXNDH:ERXNDL) DS39662B-page 18 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 21. ENC28J60 3.3 PHY Registers To write to a PHY register: The PHY registers provide configuration and control of the PHY module, as well as status information about its operation. All PHY registers are 16 bits in width. There are a total of 32 PHY addresses; however, only 9 locations are implemented. Writes to unimplemented locations are ignored and any attempts to read these locations will return ‘0’. All reserved locations should be written as ‘0’; their contents should be ignored when read. 1. Unlike the ETH, MAC and MII control registers, or the buffer memory, the PHY registers are not directly accessible through the SPI control interface. Instead, access is accomplished through a special set of MAC control registers that implement Media Independent Interface Management (MIIM). These control registers are referred to as the MII registers. The registers that control access to the PHY registers are shown in Register 3-3 and Register 3-4. The PHY register will be written after the MIIM operation completes, which takes 10.24 μs. When the write operation has completed, the BUSY bit will clear itself. The host controller should not start any MIISCAN or MIIRD operations while busy. 3.3.1 READING PHY REGISTERS When a PHY register is read, the entire 16 bits are obtained. 2. 3. 3.3.3 2. 3. 4. 5. Write the address of the PHY register to read from into the MIREGADR register. Set the MICMD.MIIRD bit. The read operation begins and the MISTAT.BUSY bit is set. Wait 10.24 μs. Poll the MISTAT.BUSY bit to be certain that the operation is complete. While busy, the host controller should not start any MIISCAN operations or write to the MIWRH register. When the MAC has obtained the register contents, the BUSY bit will clear itself. Clear the MICMD.MIIRD bit. Read the desired data from the MIRDL and MIRDH registers. The order that these bytes are accessed is unimportant. 3.3.2 WRITING PHY REGISTERS When a PHY register is written to, the entire 16 bits is written at once; selective bit writes are not implemented. If it is necessary to reprogram only select bits in the register, the controller must first read the PHY register, modify the resulting data and then write the data back to the PHY register. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. SCANNING A PHY REGISTER The MAC can be configured to perform automatic back-to-back read operations on a PHY register. This can significantly reduce the host controller complexity when periodic status information updates are desired. To perform the scan operation: 1. To read from a PHY register: 1. Write the address of the PHY register to write to into the MIREGADR register. Write the lower 8 bits of data to write into the MIWRL register. Write the upper 8 bits of data to write into the MIWRH register. Writing to this register automatically begins the MIIM transaction, so it must be written to after MIWRL. The MISTAT.BUSY bit becomes set. 2. Write the address of the PHY register to read from into the MIREGADR register. Set the MICMD.MIISCAN bit. The scan operation begins and the MISTAT.BUSY bit is set. The first read operation will complete after 10.24 μs. Subsequent reads will be done at the same interval until the operation is cancelled. The MISTAT.NVALID bit may be polled to determine when the first read operation is complete. After setting the MIISCAN bit, the MIRDL and MIRDH registers will automatically be updated every 10.24 μs. There is no status information which can be used to determine when the MIRD registers are updated. Since the host controller can only read one MII register at a time through the SPI, it must not be assumed that the values of MIRDL and MIRDH were read from the PHY at exactly the same time. When the MIISCAN operation is in progress, the host controller must not attempt to write to MIWRH or start an MIIRD operation. The MIISCAN operation can be cancelled by clearing the MICMD.MIISCAN bit and then polling the MISTAT.BUSY bit. New operations may be started after the BUSY bit is cleared. Preliminary DS39662B-page 19
  • 22. DS39662B-page 20 PHID2 PHCON2 PHSTAT2 PHIE PHIR PHLCON 03h 10h 11h 12h 13h 14h Bit 14 — PLOOPBK PFDPX — — — Bit 12 Bit 13 FRCLNK r r r r r — r — — r r r TXSTAT TXDIS Bit 11 r PHDPX PPWRSV r r r r r LSTAT JABBER — r Bit 10 LACFG3:LACFG0 r r RXSTAT COLSTAT r PHY Identifier (OUI19:OUI24) = 000101 PHY Identifier (OUI3:OUI18) = 0083h — PRST Bit 15 ENC28J60 PHY REGISTER SUMMARY Bit 7 — HDLDIS r r r DPXSTAT(1) r — r r r — r — — Bit 6 LBCFG3:LBCFG0 r r — r — r Bit 8 PDPXMD(1) PHY P/N (PPN5:PPN0) = 00h — — Bit 9 r r PLRITY r — — Bit 5 PLNKIF PLNKIE — r — — Bit 4 — Bit 1 LLSTAT JBSTAT — Bit 2 — — Bit 0 PGIF r — r LFRQ1:LFRQ0 r r — r STRCH r PGEIE — r r r r — r PHY Revision (PREV3:PREV0) = 00h — — Bit 3 x = unknown, u = unchanged, — = unimplemented, q = value depends on condition, r = reserved, do not modify. Reset values of the Duplex mode/status bits depend on the connection of the LED to the LEDB pin (see Section 2.6 “LED Configuration” for additional details). PHID1 02h Legend: Note 1: PHSTAT1 01h Name PHCON1 00h Addr TABLE 3-3: Reset Values 0011 0100 0010 001x xxxx xxxx xx00 00x0 0000 0000 0000 0000 --00 00q- --0- ---- -000 0000 0000 0000 0001 0100 0000 0000 0000 0000 1000 0011 ---1 1--- ---- -00- 00-- 00-q 0--- ---- ENC28J60 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 23. ENC28J60 REGISTER 3-3: MICMD: MII COMMAND REGISTER U-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 — — — — — — MIISCAN MIIRD bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 7-2 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 1 MIISCAN: MII Scan Enable bit 1 = PHY register at MIREGADR is continuously read and the data is placed in MIRD 0 = No MII Management scan operation is in progress bit 0 MIIRD: MII Read Enable bit 1 = PHY register at MIREGADR is read once and the data is placed in MIRD 0 = No MII Management read operation is in progress REGISTER 3-4: MISTAT: MII STATUS REGISTER U-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 R-0 R-0 R-0 R-0 — — — — r NVALID SCAN BUSY bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 7-4 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 3 Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’ bit 2 NVALID: MII Management Read Data Not Valid bit 1 = The contents of MIRD are not valid yet 0 = The MII Management read cycle has completed and MIRD has been updated bit 1 SCAN: MII Management Scan Operation bit 1 = MII Management scan operation is in progress 0 = No MII Management scan operation is in progress bit 0 BUSY: MII Management Busy bit 1 = A PHY register is currently being read or written to 0 = The MII Management interface is Idle © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 21
  • 24. ENC28J60 3.3.4 PHSTAT REGISTERS 3.3.5 PHID1 AND PHID2 REGISTERS The PHSTAT1 and PHSTAT2 registers contain readonly bits that show the current status of the PHY module’s operations, particularly the conditions of the communications link to the rest of the network. The PHID1 and PHID2 registers are read-only registers. They hold constant data that help identify the Ethernet controller and may be useful for debugging purposes. This includes: The PHSTAT1 register (Register 3-5) contains the LLSTAT bit; it clears and latches low if the physical layer link has gone down since the last read of the register. Periodic polling by the host controller can be used to determine exactly when the link fails. It may be particularly useful if the link change interrupt is not used. • The part number of the PHY module (PPN5:PPN0) • The revision level of the PHY module (PREV3:PREV0); and • The PHY Identifier, as part of Microchip’s corporate Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI) (OUI3:OUI24) The PHSTAT1 register also contains a jabber status bit. An Ethernet controller is said to be “jabbering” if it continuously transmits data without stopping and allowing other nodes to share the medium. Generally, the jabber condition indicates that the local controller may be grossly violating the maximum packet size defined by the IEEE specification. This bit latches high to indicate that a jabber condition has occurred since the last read of the register. The PHY part number and revision are part of PHID2. The upper two bytes of the PHY identifier are located in PHID1, with the remainder in PHID2. The exact locations within registers are shown in Table 3-3. The PHSTAT2 register (Register 3-6) contains status bits which report if the PHY module is linked to the network and whether or not it is transmitting or receiving. DS39662B-page 22 The 22 bits of the OUI contained in the PHY Identifier (OUI3:OUI24, corresponding to PHID1<15:0> and PHID2<15:10>) are concatenated with ‘00’ as the first two digits (OUI1 and OUI2) to generate the entire OUI. For convenience, this 24-bit string is usually interpreted in hexadecimal; the resulting OUI for Microchip Technology is 0004A3h. Revision information is also stored in EREVID. This is a read-only control register which contains a 5-bit identifier for the specific silicon revision level of the device. Details of this register are shown in Table 3-2. Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 25. ENC28J60 REGISTER 3-5: PHSTAT1: PHYSICAL LAYER STATUS REGISTER 1 U-0 U-0 U-0 R-1 R-1 U-0 U-0 U-0 — — — PFDPX PHDPX — — — bit 15 bit 8 U-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 R/LL-0 R/LH-0 U-0 — — — — — LLSTAT JBSTAT — bit 7 bit 0 Legend: ‘1’ = Bit is set R = Read-only bit ‘0’ = Bit is cleared U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR R/L = Read-only latch bit LL = Bit latches low LH = Bit latches high bit 15-13 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 12 PFDPX: PHY Full-Duplex Capable bit 1 = PHY is capable of operating at 10 Mbps in Full-Duplex mode (this bit is always set) bit 11 PHDPX: PHY Half-Duplex Capable bit 1 = PHY is capable of operating at 10 Mbps in Half-Duplex mode (this bit is always set) bit 10-3 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 2 LLSTAT: PHY Latching Link Status bit 1 = Link is up and has been up continously since PHSTAT1 was last read 0 = Link is down or was down for a period since PHSTAT1 was last read bit 1 JBSTAT: PHY Latching Jabber Status bit 1 = PHY has detected a transmission meeting the jabber criteria since PHSTAT1 was last read 0 = PHY has not detected any jabbering transmissions since PHSTAT1 was last read bit 0 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 23
  • 26. ENC28J60 REGISTER 3-6: PHSTAT2: PHYSICAL LAYER STATUS REGISTER 2 U-0 U-0 R-0 R-0 R-0 R-0 R-x U-0 — — TXSTAT RXSTAT COLSTAT LSTAT DPXSTAT(1) — bit 15 bit 8 U-0 U-0 R-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 — — PLRITY — — — — — bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared bit 15-14 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 13 TXSTAT: PHY Transmit Status bit 1 = PHY is transmitting data 0 = PHY is not transmitting data bit 12 RXSTAT: PHY Receive Status bit 1 = PHY is receiving data 0 = PHY is not receiving data bit 11 COLSTAT: PHY Collision Status bit 1 = A collision is occuring 0 = A collision is not occuring bit 10 LSTAT: PHY Link Status bit (non-latching) 1 = Link is up 0 = Link is down bit 9 DPXSTAT: PHY Duplex Status bit(1) 1 = PHY is configured for full-duplex operation (PHCON1<8> is set) 0 = PHY is configured for half-duplex operation (PHCON1<8> is clear) bit 8-6 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 5 PLRITY: Polarity Status bit 1 = The polarity of the signal on TPIN+/TPIN- is reversed 0 = The polarity of the signal on TPIN+/TPIN- is correct bit 4-0 x = Bit is unknown Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ Note 1: Reset values of the Duplex mode/status bit depends on the connection of the LED to the LEDB pin (see Section 2.6 “LED Configuration” for additional details). DS39662B-page 24 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 27. ENC28J60 4.0 SERIAL PERIPHERAL INTERFACE (SPI) 4.1 Overview The ENC28J60 is designed to interface directly with the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) port available on many microcontrollers. The implementation used on this device supports SPI mode 0,0 only. In addition, the SPI port requires that SCK be at Idle in a low state; selectable clock polarity is not supported. FIGURE 4-1: Commands and data are sent to the device via the SI pin, with data being clocked in on the rising edge of SCK. Data is driven out by the ENC28J60 on the SO line, on the falling edge of SCK. The CS pin must be held low while any operation is performed and returned high when finished. SPI INPUT TIMING CS SCK SI MSb In High-Impedance State SO FIGURE 4-2: LSb In SPI OUTPUT TIMING CS SCK SO MSb Out SI © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. LSb Out Don’t Care Preliminary DS39662B-page 25
  • 28. ENC28J60 4.2 SPI Instruction Set followed by a 5-bit argument that specifies either a register address or a data constant. Write and bit field instructions are also followed by one or more bytes of data. The operation of the ENC28J60 depends entirely on commands given by an external host controller over the SPI interface. These commands take the form of instructions, of one or more bytes, which are used to access the control memory and Ethernet buffer spaces. At the least, instructions consist of a 3-bit opcode, TABLE 4-1: A total of seven instructions are implemented on the ENC28J60. Table 4-1 shows the command codes for all operations. SPI INSTRUCTION SET FOR THE ENC28J60 Instruction Name and Mnemonic Byte 0 Opcode Byte 1 and Following Argument Data Read Control Register (RCR) 0 0 0 a a a a a N/A Read Buffer Memory (RBM) 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 N/A Write Control Register (WCR) 0 1 0 a a a a a d d d d d d d d Write Buffer Memory (WBM) 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 d d d d d d d d Bit Field Set (BFS) 1 0 0 a a a a a d d d d d d d d Bit Field Clear (BFC) 1 0 1 a a a a a d d d d d d d d System Reset Command (Soft Reset) (SRC) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 N/A Legend: a = control register address, d = data payload. DS39662B-page 26 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 29. ENC28J60 4.2.1 READ CONTROL REGISTER COMMAND registers in the current bank. If the 5-bit address is an ETH register, then data in the selected register will immediately start shifting out MSb first on the SO pin. Figure 4-3 shows the read sequence for these registers. The Read Control Register (RCR) command allows the host controller to read any of the ETH, MAC and MII registers in any order. The contents of the PHY registers are read via a special MII register interface (see Section 3.3.1 “Reading PHY Registers” for more information). If the address specifies one of the MAC or MII registers, a dummy byte will first be shifted out the SO pin. After the dummy byte, the data will be shifted out MSb first on the SO pin. The RCR operation is terminated by raising the CS pin. Figure 4-4 shows the read sequence for MAC and MII registers. The RCR command is started by pulling the CS pin low. The RCR opcode is then sent to the ENC28J60, followed by a 5-bit register address (A4 through A0). The 5-bit address identifies any of the 32 control FIGURE 4-3: READ CONTROL REGISTER COMMAND SEQUENCE (ETH REGISTERS) CS 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 SCK Opcode SI 0 0 Address 4 0 3 2 1 0 Data Out High-Impedance State 7 SO FIGURE 4-4: 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 READ CONTROL REGISTER COMMAND SEQUENCE (MAC AND MII REGISTERS) CS 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 SCK Opcode SI 0 0 0 Address 4 3 2 1 0 Dummy Byte High-Impedance State SO © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. 7 6 5 4 3 2 Preliminary Data Byte Out 1 0 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 DS39662B-page 27
  • 30. ENC28J60 4.2.2 READ BUFFER MEMORY COMMAND 4.2.3 The Read Buffer Memory (RBM) command allows the host controller to read bytes from the integrated 8-Kbyte transmit and receive buffer memory. The Write Control Register (WCR) command allows the host controller to write to any of the ETH, MAC and MII Control registers in any order. The PHY registers are written to via a special MII register interface (see Section 3.3.2 “Writing PHY Registers” for more information). If the AUTOINC bit in the ECON2 register is set, the ERDPT Pointer will automatically increment to point to the next address after the last bit of each byte is read. The next address will normally be the current address incremented by one. However, if the last byte in the receive buffer is read (ERDPT = ERXND), the ERDPT Pointer will change to the beginning of the receive buffer (ERXST). This allows the host controller to read packets from the receive buffer in a continuous stream without keeping track of when a wraparound is needed. If AUTOINC is set when address 1FFFh is read and ERXND does not point to this address, the Read Pointer will increment and wrap around to 0000h. The WCR command is started by pulling the CS pin low. The WCR opcode is then sent to the ENC28J60, followed by a 5-bit address (A4 through A0). The 5-bit address identifies any of the 32 control registers in the current bank. After the WCR command and address are sent, actual data that is to be written is sent, MSb first. The data will be written to the addressed register on the rising edge of the SCK line. The WCR operation is terminated by raising the CS pin. If the CS line is allowed to go high before eight bits are loaded, the write will be aborted for that data byte. Refer to the timing diagram in Figure 4-5 for a more detailed illustration of the byte write sequence. The RBM command is started by pulling the CS pin low. The RBM opcode is then sent to the ENC28J60, followed by the 5-bit constant 1Ah. After the RBM command and constant are sent, the data stored in the memory pointed to by ERDPT will be shifted out MSb first on the SO pin. If the host controller continues to provide clocks on the SCK pin, without raising CS, the byte pointed to by ERDPT will again be shifted out MSb first on the SO pin. In this manner, with AUTOINC enabled, it is possible to continuously read sequential bytes from the buffer memory without any extra SPI command overhead. The RBM command is terminated by raising the CS pin. FIGURE 4-5: WRITE CONTROL REGISTER COMMAND WRITE CONTROL REGISTER COMMAND SEQUENCE CS 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 SCK Address Opcode SI 0 1 0 A4 3 2 Data Byte 1 0 D7 6 5 4 3 2 1 D0 High-Impedance State SO DS39662B-page 28 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 31. ENC28J60 4.2.4 WRITE BUFFER MEMORY COMMAND any of the ETH registers in the current bank. After the BFS command and address are sent, the data byte containing the bit field set information should be sent, MSb first. The supplied data will be logically ORed to the content of the addressed register on the rising edge of the SCK line for the D0 bit. The Write Buffer Memory (WBM) command allows the host controller to write bytes to the integrated 8-Kbyte transmit and receive buffer memory. If the AUTOINC bit in the ECON2 register is set, after the last bit of each byte is written, the EWRPT Pointer will automatically be incremented to point to the next sequential address (current address + 1). If address 1FFFh is written with AUTOINC set, the Write Pointer will increment to 0000h. If the CS line is brought high before eight bits are loaded, the operation will be aborted for that data byte. The BFS operation is terminated by raising the CS pin. 4.2.6 The WBM command is started by lowering the CS pin. The WBM opcode should then be sent to the ENC28J60, followed by the 5-bit constant 1Ah. After the WBM command and constant are sent, the data to be stored in the memory pointed to by EWRPT should be shifted out MSb first to the ENC28J60. After 8 data bits are received, the Write Pointer will automatically increment if AUTOINC is set. The host controller can continue to provide clocks on the SCK pin and send data on the SI pin, without raising CS, to keep writing to the memory. In this manner, with AUTOINC enabled, it is possible to continuously write sequential bytes to the buffer memory without any extra SPI command overhead. The BFC command is started by lowering the CS pin. The BFC opcode should then be sent, followed by a 5-bit address (A4 through A0). The 5-bit address identifies any of the ETH registers in the current bank. After the BFC command and address are sent, a data byte containing the bit field clear information should be sent, MSb first. The supplied data will be logically inverted and subsequently ANDed to the contents of the addressed register on the rising edge of the SCK line for the D0 bit. The WBM command is terminated by bringing up the CS pin. Refer to Figure 4-6 for a detailed illustration of the write sequence. 4.2.5 BIT FIELD CLEAR COMMAND The Bit Field Clear (BFC) command is used to clear up to 8 bits in any of the ETH Control registers. Note that this command cannot be used on the MAC registers, MII registers, PHY registers or buffer memory. The BFC command uses the provided data byte to perform a bitwise NOTAND operation on the addressed register contents. As an example, if a register had the contents of F1h and the BFC command was executed with an operand of 17h, then the register would be changed to have the contents of E0h. BIT FIELD SET COMMAND The Bit Field Set (BFS) command is used to set up to 8 bits in any of the ETH Control registers. Note that this command cannot be used on the MAC registers, MII registers, PHY registers or buffer memory. The BFS command uses the provided data byte to perform a bit-wise OR operation on the addressed register contents. The BFC operation is terminated by bringing the CS pin high. If CS is brought high before eight bits are loaded, the operation will be aborted for that data byte. The BFS command is started by pulling the CS pin low. The BFS opcode is then sent, followed by a 5-bit address (A4 through A0). The 5-bit address identifies FIGURE 4-6: WRITE BUFFER MEMORY COMMAND SEQUENCE CS 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 SCK Opcode SI 0 1 1 Address 1 1 SO © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. 0 1 Data Byte 0 0 7 6 5 4 3 Data Byte 1 2 1 D0 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 High-Impedance State Preliminary DS39662B-page 29
  • 32. ENC28J60 4.2.7 SYSTEM RESET COMMAND The command is started by pulling the CS pin low. The SRC opcode is the sent, followed by a 5-bit Soft Reset command constant of 1Fh. The SRC operation is terminated by raising the CS pin. The System Reset Command (SRC) allows the host controller to issue a System Soft Reset command. Unlike other SPI commands, the SRC is only a singlebyte command and does not operate on any register. FIGURE 4-7: Figure 4-7 shows a detailed illustration of the System Reset Command sequence. For more information on SRC’s Soft Reset, refer to Section 11.2 “System Reset”. SYSTEM RESET COMMAND SEQUENCE CS 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SCK Opcode SI SO DS39662B-page 30 1 1 Data Constant (1Fh) 1 1 1 1 1 1 High-Impedance State Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 33. ENC28J60 5.0 ETHERNET OVERVIEW 5.1.1 Before discussing the use of the ENC28J60 as an Ethernet interface, it may be helpful to review the structure of a typical data frame. Users requiring more information should refer to IEEE Standard 802.3 which is the basis for the Ethernet protocol. 5.1 Packet Format Normal IEEE 802.3 compliant Ethernet frames are between 64 and 1518 bytes long. They are made up of five or six different fields: a destination MAC address, a source MAC address, a type/length field, data payload, an optional padding field and a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC). Additionally, when transmitted on the Ethernet medium, a 7-byte preamble field and start-offrame delimiter byte are appended to the beginning of the Ethernet packet. Thus, traffic seen on the twisted pair cabling will appear as shown in Figure 5-1. FIGURE 5-1: PREAMBLE/START-OF-FRAME DELIMITER When transmitting and receiving data with the ENC28J60, the preamble and start of frame delimiter bytes will automatically be generated or stripped from the packets when they are transmitted or received. The host controller does not need to concern itself with them. Normally, the host controller will also not need to concern itself with padding and the CRC which the ENC28J60 will also be able to automatically generate when transmitting and verify when receiving. The padding and CRC fields will, however, be written into the receive buffer when packets arrive, so they may be evaluated by the host controller if needed. ETHERNET PACKET FORMAT Number of Bytes Field Comments 7 Preamble Filtered out by the Module 1 SFD Start-of-Frame Delimiter (filtered out by the module) 6 DA Destination Address, such as Multicast, Broadcast or Unicast 6 SA Source Address 2 Type/Length Type of Packet or the Length of the Packet Used in the Calculation of the FCS Data Packet Payload (with optional padding) 46-1500 Padding 4 Note 1: FCS(1) Frame Check Sequence – CRC The FCS is transmitted starting with bit 31 and ending with bit 0. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 31
  • 34. ENC28J60 5.1.2 DESTINATION ADDRESS 5.1.5 The destination address field is a 6-byte field filled with the MAC address of the device that the packet is directed to. If the Least Significant bit in the first byte of the MAC address is set, the address is a multicast destination. For example, 01-00-00-00-F0-00 and 33-45-67-89-AB-CD are multicast addresses, while 00-00-00-00-F0-00 and 32-45-67-89-AB-CD are not. Packets with multicast destination addresses are designed to arrive and be important to a selected group of Ethernet nodes. If the destination address field is the reserved multicast address, FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF, the packet is a broadcast packet and it will be directed to everyone sharing the network. If the Least Significant bit in the first byte of the MAC address is clear, the address is a unicast address and will be designed for usage by only the addressed node. The ENC28J60 incorporates receive filters which can be used to discard or accept packets with multicast, broadcast and/or unicast destination addresses. When transmitting packets, the host controller is responsible for writing the desired destination address into the transmit buffer. 5.1.3 SOURCE ADDRESS The source address field is a 6-byte field filled with the MAC address of the node which created the Ethernet packet. Users of the ENC28J60 must generate a unique MAC address for each controller used. MAC addresses consist of two portions. The first three bytes are known as the Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI). OUIs are distributed by the IEEE. The last three bytes are address bytes at the discretion of the company that purchased the OUI. When transmitting packets, the assigned source MAC address must be written into the transmit buffer by the host controller. The ENC28J60 will not automatically transmit the contents of the MAADR registers which are used for the unicast receive filter. 5.1.4 TYPE/LENGTH The type/length field is a 2-byte field which defines which protocol the following packet data belongs to. Alternately, if the field is filled with the contents of 05DCh (1500) or any smaller number, the field is considered a length field and it specifies the amount of non-padding data which follows in the data field. Users implementing proprietary networks may choose to treat this field as a length field, while applications implementing protocols such as the Internet Protocol (IP) or Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), should program this field with the appropriate type defined by the protocol’s specification when transmitting packets. DS39662B-page 32 DATA The data field is a variable length field anywhere from 0 to 1500 bytes. Larger data packets will violate Ethernet standards and will be dropped by most Ethernet nodes. The ENC28J60, however, is capable of transmitting and receiving larger packets when the Huge Frame Enable bit is set (MACON3.HFRMEN = 1). 5.1.6 PADDING The padding field is a variable length field added to meet IEEE 802.3 specification requirements when small data payloads are used. The destination, source, type, data and padding of an Ethernet packet must be no smaller than 60 bytes. Adding the required 4-byte CRC field, packets must be no smaller than 64 bytes. If the data field is less than 46 bytes long, a padding field is required. When transmitting packets, the ENC28J60 automatically generates zero padding if the MACON3.PADCFG<2:0> bits are configured to do so. Otherwise, the host controller should manually add padding to the packet before transmitting it. The ENC28J60 will not prevent the transmission of undersize packets should the host controller command such an action. When receiving packets, the ENC28J60 automatically rejects packets which are less than 18 bytes; it is assumed that a packet this small does not contain even the minimum of source and destination addresses, type information and FCS checksum required for all packets. All packets 18 bytes and larger will be subject to the standard receive filtering criteria and may be accepted as normal traffic. To conform with IEEE 802.3 requirements, the application itself will need to inspect all received packets and reject those smaller than 64 bytes. 5.1.7 CRC The CRC field is a 4-byte field which contains an industry standard 32-bit CRC calculated with the data from the destination, source, type, data and padding fields. When receiving packets, the ENC28J60 will check the CRC of each incoming packet. If ERXFCON.CRCEN is set, packets with invalid CRCs will automatically be discarded. If CRCEN is clear and the packet meets all other receive filtering criteria, the packet will be written into the receive buffer and the host controller will be able to determine if the CRC was valid by reading the receive status vector (see Section 7.2 “Receiving Packets”). When transmitting packets, the ENC28J60 will automatically generate a valid CRC and transmit it if the MACON3.PADCFG<2:0> bits are configured to cause this. Otherwise, the host controller must generate the CRC and place it in the transmit buffer. Given the complexity of calculating a CRC, it is highly recommended that the PADCFG bits be configured such that the ENC28J60 will automatically generate the CRC field. Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 35. ENC28J60 6.0 INITIALIZATION 6.2 Before the ENC28J60 can be used to transmit and receive packets, certain device settings must be initialized. Depending on the application, some configuration options may need to be changed. Normally, these tasks may be accomplished once after Reset and do not need to be changed thereafter. 6.1 Receive Buffer Before receiving any packets, the receive buffer must be initialized by programming the ERXST and ERXND Pointers. All memory between and including the ERXST and ERXND addresses will be dedicated to the receive hardware. It is recommended that the ERXST Pointer be programmed with an even address. Applications expecting large amounts of data and frequent packet delivery may wish to allocate most of the memory as the receive buffer. Applications that may need to save older packets or have several packets ready for transmission should allocate less memory. When programming the ERXST or ERXND Pointer, the internal hardware copy of the ERXWRPT registers will automatically be updated with the value of ERXST. This value will be used as the starting location when the receive hardware begins writing received data. The ERXWRPT registers are updated by the hardware only when a new packet is successfully received. Note: Transmission Buffer All memory which is not used by the receive buffer is considered the transmission buffer. Data which is to be transmitted should be written into any unused space. After a packet is transmitted, however, the hardware will write a seven-byte status vector into memory after the last byte in the packet. Therefore, the host controller should leave at least seven bytes between each packet and the beginning of the receive buffer. No explicit action is required to initialize the transmission buffer. 6.3 Receive Filters The appropriate receive filters should be enabled or disabled by writing to the ERXFCON register. See Section 8.0 “Receive Filters” for information on how to configure it. 6.4 Waiting For OST If the initialization procedure is being executed immediately following a Power-on Reset, the ESTAT.CLKRDY bit should be polled to make certain that enough time has elapsed before proceeding to modify the MAC and PHY registers. For more information on the OST, see Section 2.2 “Oscillator Start-up Timer”. After writing to ERXST or ERXND, the ERXWRPT registers are not updated immediately; only the internal hardware copy of the ERXWRPT registers is updated. Therefore, comparing if (ERXWRPT = = ERXST) is not practical in a firmware initialization routine. For tracking purposes, the ERXRDPT registers should additionally be programmed with the same value. To program ERXRDPT, the host controller must write to ERXRDPTL first, followed by ERXRDPTH. See Section 7.2.4 “Freeing Receive Buffer Space” for more information. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 33
  • 36. ENC28J60 6.5 MAC Initialization Settings 4. Several of the MAC registers require configuration during initialization. This only needs to be done once; the order of programming is unimportant. 1. 2. 3. Set the MARXEN bit in MACON1 to enable the MAC to receive frames. If using full duplex, most applications should also set TXPAUS and RXPAUS to allow IEEE defined flow control to function. Configure the PADCFG, TXCRCEN and FULDPX bits of MACON3. Most applications should enable automatic padding to at least 60 bytes and always append a valid CRC. For convenience, many applications may wish to set the FRMLNEN bit as well to enable frame length status reporting. The FULDPX bit should be set if the application will be connected to a full-duplex configured remote node; otherwise, it should be left clear. Configure the bits in MACON4. For conformance to the IEEE 802.3 standard, set the DEFER bit. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. REGISTER 6-1: Program the MAMXFL registers with the maximum frame length to be permitted to be received or transmitted. Normal network nodes are designed to handle packets that are 1518 bytes or less. Configure the Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap register, MABBIPG. Most applications will program this register with 15h when Full-Duplex mode is used and 12h when Half-Duplex mode is used. Configure the Non-Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap register low byte, MAIPGL. Most applications will program this register with 12h. If half duplex is used, the Non-Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap register high byte, MAIPGH, should be programmed. Most applications will program this register to 0Ch. If Half-Duplex mode is used, program the Retransmission and Collision Window registers, MACLCON1 and MACLCON2. Most applications will not need to change the default Reset values. If the network is spread over exceptionally long cables, the default value of MACLCON2 may need to be increased. Program the local MAC address into the MAADR1:MAADR6 registers. MACON1: MAC CONTROL REGISTER 1 U-0 U-0 U-0 R-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 — — — r TXPAUS RXPAUS PASSALL MARXEN bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 7-5 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 4 Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’ bit 3 TXPAUS: Pause Control Frame Transmission Enable bit 1 = Allow the MAC to transmit pause control frames (needed for flow control in full duplex) 0 = Disallow pause frame transmissions bit 2 RXPAUS: Pause Control Frame Reception Enable bit 1 = Inhibit transmissions when pause control frames are received (normal operation) 0 = Ignore pause control frames which are received bit 1 PASSALL: Pass All Received Frames Enable bit 1 = Control frames received by the MAC will be written into the receive buffer if not filtered out 0 = Control frames will be discarded after being processed by the MAC (normal operation) bit 0 MARXEN: MAC Receive Enable bit 1 = Enable packets to be received by the MAC 0 = Disable packet reception DS39662B-page 34 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 37. ENC28J60 REGISTER 6-2: MACON3: MAC CONTROL REGISTER 3 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 PADCFG2 PADCFG1 PADCFG0 TXCRCEN PHDREN HFRMEN FRMLNEN FULDPX bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 7-5 PADCFG2:PADCFG0: Automatic Pad and CRC Configuration bits 111 = All short frames will be zero padded to 64 bytes and a valid CRC will then be appended 110 = No automatic padding of short frames 101 = MAC will automatically detect VLAN Protocol frames which have a 8100h type field and automatically pad to 64 bytes. If the frame is not a VLAN frame, it will be padded to 60 bytes. After padding, a valid CRC will be appended. 100 = No automatic padding of short frames 011 = All short frames will be zero padded to 64 bytes and a valid CRC will then be appended 010 = No automatic padding of short frames 001 = All short frames will be zero padded to 60 bytes and a valid CRC will then be appended 000 = No automatic padding of short frames bit 4 TXCRCEN: Transmit CRC Enable bit 1 = MAC will apend a valid CRC to all frames transmitted regardless of PADCFG. TXCRCEN must be set if PADCFG specifies that a valid CRC will be appended. 0 = MAC will not append a CRC. The last 4 bytes will be checked and if it is an invalid CRC, it will be reported in the transmit status vector. bit 3 PHDREN: Proprietary Header Enable bit 1 = Frames presented to the MAC contain a 4-byte proprietary header which will not be used when calculating the CRC 0 = No proprietary header is present. The CRC will cover all data (normal operation). bit 2 HFRMEN: Huge Frame Enable bit 1 = Frames of any size will be allowed to be transmitted and receieved 0 = Frames bigger than MAMXFL will be aborted when transmitted or received bit 1 FRMLNEN: Frame Length Checking Enable bit 1 = The type/length field of transmitted and received frames will be checked. If it represents a length, the frame size will be compared and mismatches will be reported in the transmit/receive status vector. 0 = Frame lengths will not be compared with the type/length field bit 0 FULDPX: MAC Full-Duplex Enable bit 1 = MAC will operate in Full-Duplex mode. PDPXMD bit must also be set. 0 = MAC will operate in Half-Duplex mode. PDPXMD bit must also be clear. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 35
  • 38. ENC28J60 REGISTER 6-3: MACON4: MAC CONTROL REGISTER 4 U-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 U-0 U-0 R-0 R-0 — DEFER BPEN NOBKOFF — — r r bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 7 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 6 DEFER: Defer Transmission Enable bit (applies to half duplex only) 1 = When the medium is occupied, the MAC will wait indefinitely for it to become free when attempting to transmit (use this setting for 802.3 compliance) 0 = When the medium is occupied, the MAC will abort the transmission after the excessive deferral limit is reached bit 5 BPEN: No Backoff During Backpressure Enable bit (applies to half duplex only) 1 = After incidentally causing a collision during backpressure, the MAC will immediately begin retransmitting 0 = After incidentally causing a collision during backpressure, the MAC will delay using the Binary Exponential Backoff algorithm before attempting to retransmit (normal operation) bit 4 NOBKOFF: No Backoff Enable bit (applies to half duplex only) 1 = After any collision, the MAC will immediately begin retransmitting 0 = After any collision, the MAC will delay using the Binary Exponential Backoff algorithm before attempting to retransmit (normal operation) bit 3-2 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 1-0 Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’ REGISTER 6-4: MABBIPG: MAC BACK-TO-BACK INTER-PACKET GAP REGISTER U-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 — BBIPG6 BBIPG5 BBIPG4 BBIPG3 BBIPG2 BBIPG1 BBIPG0 bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 7 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 6-0 BBIPG6:BBIPG0: Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap Delay Time bits When FULDPX (MACON3<0>) = 1: Nibble time offset delay between the end of one transmission and the beginning of the next in a back-to-back sequence. The register value should be programmed to the desired period in nibble times minus 3. The recommended setting is 15h which represents the minimum IEEE specified Inter-Packet Gap (IPG) of 9.6 μs. When FULDPX (MACON3<0>) = 0: Nibble time offset delay between the end of one transmission and the beginning of the next in a back-to-back sequence. The register value should be programmed to the desired period in nibble times minus 6. The recommended setting is 12h which represents the minimum IEEE specified Inter-Packet Gap (IPG) of 9.6 μs. DS39662B-page 36 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 39. ENC28J60 6.6 PHY Initialization Settings Depending on the application, bits in three of the PHY module’s registers may also require configuration. The PHCON1.PDPXMD bit partially controls the device’s half/full-duplex configuration. Normally, this bit is initialized correctly by the external circuitry (see Section 2.6 “LED Configuration”). If the external circuitry is not present or incorrect, however, the host controller must program the bit properly. Alternatively, for an externally configurable system, the PDPXMD bit may be read and the FULDPX bit be programmed to match. If using half duplex, the host controller may wish to set the PHCON2.HDLDIS bit to prevent automatic loopback of the data which is transmitted. The PHY register, PHLCON, controls the outputs of LEDA and LEDB. If an application requires a LED configuration other than the default, PHLCON must be altered to match the new requirements. The settings for LED operation are discussed in Section 2.6 “LED Configuration”. The PHLCON register is shown in Register 2-2 (page 9). For proper duplex operation, the PHCON1.PDPXMD bit must also match the value of the MACON3.FULDPX bit. REGISTER 6-5: PHCON2: PHY CONTROL REGISTER 2 U-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 — FRCLNK TXDIS r r JABBER r HDLDIS bit 15 bit 8 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 r r r r r r r r bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 15 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 14 FRCLNK: PHY Force Linkup bit 1 = Force linkup even when no link partner is detected 0 = Normal operation bit 13 TXDIS: Twisted-Pair Transmitter Disable bit 1 = Disable twisted-pair transmitter 0 = Normal operation bit 12-11 Reserved: Write as ‘0’ bit 10 JABBER: Jabber Correction Disable bit 1 = Disable jabber correction 0 = Normal operation bit 9 Reserved: Write as ‘0’ bit 8 HDLDIS: PHY Half-Duplex Loopback Disable bit When PHCON1<8> = 1 or PHCON1<14> = 1: This bit is ignored. When PHCON1<8> = 0 and PHCON1<14> = 0: 1 = Transmitted data will only be sent out on the twisted-pair interface 0 = Transmitted data will be looped back to the MAC and sent out on the twisted-pair interface bit 7-0 Reserved: Write as ‘0’ © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 37
  • 41. ENC28J60 7.0 TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PACKETS 7.1 Transmitting Packets The MAC inside the ENC28J60 will automatically generate the preamble and start-of-frame delimiter fields when transmitting. Additionally, the MAC can generate any padding (if needed) and the CRC if configured to do so. The host controller must generate and write all other frame fields into the buffer memory for transmission. FIGURE 7-1: Additionally, the ENC28J60 requires a single per packet control byte to precede the packet for transmission. The per packet control byte is organized as shown in Figure 7-1. Before transmitting packets, the MAC registers which alter the transmission characteristics should be initialized as documented in Section 6.0 “Initialization”. For an example of how the entire transmit packet and results will look in memory, see Figure 7-2. FORMAT FOR PER PACKET CONTROL BYTES — — — — PHUGEEN PPADEN PCRCEN bit 7 POVERRIDE bit 0 bit 7-4 Unused bit 3 PHUGEEN: Per Packet Huge Frame Enable bit When POVERRIDE = 1: 1 = The packet will be transmitted in whole 0 = The MAC will transmit up to the number of bytes specified by MAMXFL. If the packet is larger than MAMXFL, it will be aborted after MAMXFL is reached. When POVERRIDE = 0: This bit is ignored. bit 2 PPADEN: Per Packet Padding Enable bit When POVERRIDE = 1: 1 = The packet will be zero padded to 60 bytes if it is less than 60 bytes 0 = The packet will be trasmitted without adding any padding bytes When POVERRIDE = 0: This bit is ignored. bit 1 PCRCEN: Per Packet CRC Enable bit When POVERRIDE = 1: 1 = A valid CRC will be calculated and attached to the frame 0 = No CRC will be appended. The last 4 bytes of the frame will be checked for validity as a CRC. When POVERRIDE = 0: This bit is ignored. bit 0 POVERRIDE: Per Packet Override bit 1 = The values of PCRCEN, PPADEN and PHUGEEN will override the configuration defined by MACON3 0 = The values in MACON3 will be used to determine how the packet will be transmitted © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 39
  • 42. ENC28J60 FIGURE 7-2: SAMPLE TRANSMIT PACKET LAYOUT Buffer Pointers Address Memory ETXST = 0120h 0120h 0121h 0Eh data[1] 0122h data[2] Description Control PHUGEEN, PPADN, PCRCEN and POVERRIDE Data Packet ETXND = 0156h 0156h 0157h 0158h 0159h 016Ah 016Bh 016Ch 016Dh 016Eh Destination Address, Source Address, Type/Length and Data Status Vector Status Vector Written by the Hardware data[m] tsv[7:0] tsv[15:8] tsv[23:16] tsv[31:24] tsv[39:32] tsv[47:40] tsv[55:48] Start of the Next Packet To achieve the example layout shown in Figure 7-2 and to transmit a packet, the host controller should: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Appropriately program the ETXST Pointer to point to an unused location in memory. It will point to the per packet control byte. In the example, it would be programmed to 0120h. It is recommended that an even address be used for ETXST. Use the WBM SPI command to write the per packet control byte, the destination address, the source MAC address, the type/length and the data payload. Appropriately program the ETXND Pointer. It should point to the last byte in the data payload. In the example, it would be programmed to 0156h. Clear EIR.TXIF, set EIE.TXIE and set EIE.INTIE to enable an interrupt when done (if desired). Start the transmission process by setting ECON1.TXRTS. If a DMA operation was in progress while the TXRTS bit was set, the ENC28J60 will wait until the DMA operation is complete before attempting to transmit the packet. This possible delay is required because the DS39662B-page 40 DMA and transmission engine share the same memory access port. Similarly, if the DMAST bit in ECON1 is set after TXRTS is already set, the DMA will wait until the TXRTS bit becomes clear before doing anything. While the transmission is in progress, none of the unshaded bits (except for the EECON1 register’s bits) in Table 7-2 should be changed. Additionally, none of the bytes to be transmitted should be read or written to through the SPI. If the host controller wishes to cancel the transmission, it can clear the TXRTS bit. When the packet is finished transmitting or was aborted due to an error/cancellation, the ECON1.TXRTS bit will be cleared, a seven-byte transmit status vector will be written to the location pointed to by ETXND + 1, the EIR.TXIF will be set and an interrupt will be generated (if enabled). The ETXST and ETXND Pointers will not be modified. To check if the packet was successfully transmitted, the ESTAT.TXABRT bit should be read. If it was set, the host controller may interrogate the ESTAT.LATECOL bit in addition to the various fields in the transmit status vector to determine the cause. The transmit status vector is organized as shown in Table 7-1. Multi-byte fields are written in little-endian format. Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 43. ENC28J60 TABLE 7-1: Bit 55-52 TRANSMIT STATUS VECTORS Field Description Zero 0 51 Transmit VLAN Tagged Frame Frame’s length/type field contained 8100h which is the VLAN protocol identifier. 50 Backpressure Applied Carrier sense method backpressure was previously applied. 49 Transmit Pause Control Frame The frame transmitted was a control frame with a valid pause opcode. 48 Transmit Control Frame The frame transmitted was a control frame. Total Bytes Transmitted on Wire Total bytes transmitted on the wire for the current packet, including all bytes from collided attempts. 31 Transmit Underrun Reserved. This bit will always be ‘0’. 30 Transmit Giant Byte count for frame was greater than MAMXFL. 29 Transmit Late Collision Collision occurred beyond the collision window (MACLCON2). 28 Transmit Excessive Collision Packet was aborted after the number of collisions exceeded the retransmission maximum (MACLCON1). 27 Transmit Excessive Defer Packet was deferred in excess of 24,287 bit times (2.4287ms). 26 Transmit Packet Defer Packet was deferred for at least one attempt but less than an excessive defer. 47-32 25 Transmit Broadcast Packet’s destination address was a broadcast address. 24 Transmit Multicast Packet’s destination address was a multicast address. 23 Transmit Done Transmission of the packet was completed. 22 Transmit Length Out of Range Indicates that frame type/length field was larger than 1500 bytes (type field). 21 Transmit Length Check Error Indicates that frame length field value in the packet does not match the actual data byte length and is not a type field. MACON3.FRMLNEN must be set to get this error. 20 Transmit CRC Error The attached CRC in the packet did not match the internally generated CRC. 19-16 Transmit Collision Count Number of collisions the current packet incurred during transmission attempts. It applies to successfully transmitted packets and as such, will not show the possible maximum count of 16 collisions. 15-0 Transmit Byte Count Total bytes in frame not counting collided bytes. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 41
  • 44. ENC28J60 TABLE 7-2: SUMMARY OF REGISTERS USED FOR PACKET TRANSMISSION Bit 7 Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0 Reset Values on page INTIE — PKTIE PKTIF DMAIE DMAIF LINKIE LINKIF TXIE TXIF r r TXERIE TXERIF RXERIE RXERIF 13 13 ESTAT INT BUFER r LATECOL — RXBUSY TXABRT CLKRDY 13 ECON1 TXRST RXRST DMAST CSUMEN TXRTS RXEN BSEL1 BSEL0 Register Name EIE EIR ETXSTL TX Start Low Byte (ETXST<7:0>) ETXSTH — ETXNDL — — TX Start High Byte (ETXST<12:8>) 13 TX End High Byte (ETXND<12:8>) 13 TX End Low Byte (ETXND<7:0>) ETXNDH — — — 13 13 13 MACON1 — — — r TXPAUS RXPAUS PASSALL MARXEN 14 MACON3 PADCFG2 PADCFG1 PADCFG0 TXCRCEN PHDREN HFRMEN FRMLNEN FULDPX 14 DEFER BPEN NOBKOFF — — r r 14 MACON4 — MABBIPG — Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap (BBIPG<6:0>) 14 MAIPGL — Non-Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap Low Byte (MAIPGL<6:0>) 14 MAIPGH — Non-Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap High Byte (MAIPGH<6:0>) MACLCON1 — — — — MACLCON2 — — 14 Retransmission Maximum (RETMAX<3:0>) Collision Window (COLWIN<5:0>) 14 14 MAMXFLL Maximum Frame Length Low Byte (MAMXFL<7:0>) 14 MAMXFLH Maximum Frame Length High Byte (MAMXFL<15:8>) 14 Legend: — = unimplemented, r = reserved bit. Shaded cells are not used. DS39662B-page 42 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 45. ENC28J60 7.2 Receiving Packets 7.2.1 ENABLING RECEPTION Assuming that the receive buffer has been initialized, the MAC has been properly configured and the receive filters have been configured to receive Ethernet packets, the host controller should: 1. 2. 3. If an interrupt is desired whenever a packet is received, set EIE.PKTIE and EIE.INTIE. If an interrupt is desired whenever a packet is dropped due to insufficient buffer space, clear EIR.RXERIF and set both EIE.RXERIE and EIE.INTIE Enable reception by setting ECON1.RXEN. After setting RXEN, the Duplex mode and the Receive Buffer Start and End Pointers should not be modified. Additionally, to prevent unexpected packets from arriving, it is recommended that RXEN be cleared before altering the receive filter configuration (ERXFCON) and MAC address. FIGURE 7-3: After reception is enabled, packets which are not filtered out will be written into the circular receive buffer. Any packet which does not meet the necessary filter criteria will be discarded and the host controller will not have any means of identifying that a packet was thrown away. When a packet is accepted and completely written into the buffer, the EPKTCNT register will increment, the EIR.PKTIF bit will be set, an interrupt will be generated (if enabled) and the Hardware Write Pointer, ERXWRPT, will automatically advance. 7.2.2 RECEIVE PACKET LAYOUT Figure 7-3 shows the layout of a received packet. The packets are preceded by a six-byte header which contains a Next Packet Pointer, in addition to a receive status vector which contains receive statistics, including the packet’s size. This receive status vector is shown in Table 7-3. If the last byte in the packet ends on an odd value address, the hardware will automatically add a padding byte when advancing the Hardware Write Pointer. As such, all packets will start on an even boundary. SAMPLE RECEIVE PACKET LAYOUT Address Memory Description Packet N – 1 End of the Previous Packet 101Fh 1020h 1021h 1022h 1023h 1024h 1025h 1026h 1027h 6Eh 10h rsv[7:0] rsv[15:8] rsv[23:16] rsv[30:24] data[1] data[2] Low Byte High Byte status[7:0] status[15:8] status[23:16] status[31:24] Next Packet Pointer Receive Status Vector Packet N 1059h 106Ah 106Bh 106Ch 106Dh 106Eh data[m-3] data[m-2] data[m-1] data[m] crc[31:24] crc[23:16] crc[15:8] crc[7:0] Byte Skipped to Ensure Even Buffer Address Packet N + 1 © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Packet Data: Destination Address, Source Address, Type/Length, Data, Padding, CRC Start of the Next Packet Preliminary DS39662B-page 43
  • 46. ENC28J60 TABLE 7-3: RECEIVE STATUS VECTORS Bit Field 31 Zero Description 0 30 Receive VLAN Type Detected Current frame was recognized as a VLAN tagged frame. 29 Receive Unknown Opcode Current frame was recognized as a control frame but it contained an unknown opcode. 28 Receive Pause Control Frame Current frame was recognized as a control frame containing a valid pause frame opcode and a valid destination address. 27 Receive Control Frame Current frame was recognized as a control frame for having a valid type/length designating it as a control frame. 26 Dribble Nibble Indicates that after the end of this packet, an additional 1 to 7 bits were received. The extra bits were thrown away. 25 Receive Broadcast Packet Indicates packet received had a valid broadcast address. 24 Receive Multicast Packet Indicates packet received had a valid multicast address. 23 Received Ok Indicates that at the packet had a valid CRC and no symbol errors. 22 Length Out of Range Indicates that frame type/length field was larger than 1500 bytes (type field). 21 Length Check Error Indicates that frame length field value in the packet does not match the actual data byte length and specifies a valid length. 20 CRC Error Indicates that frame CRC field value does not match the CRC calculated by the MAC. 19 Reserved 18 Carrier Event Previously Seen 17 Reserved 16 Long Event/Drop Event Indicates a packet over 50,000 bit times occurred or that a packet was dropped since the last receive. Received Byte Count Indicates length of the received frame. This includes the destination address, source address, type/length, data, padding and CRC fields. This field is stored in little-endian format. 15-0 7.2.3 Indicates that at some time since the last receive, a carrier event was detected. The carrier event is not associated with this packet. A carrier event is activity on the receive channel that does not result in a packet receive attempt being made. READING RECEIVED PACKETS To process the packet, the host controller will normally use the RBM SPI command and start reading from the beginning of the next Packet Pointer. The host controller will save the next Packet Pointer, any necessary bytes from the receive status vector and then proceed to read the actual packet contents. If ECON2.AUTOINC is set, it will be able to sequentially read the entire packet without ever modifying the ERDPT registers. The Read Pointer would automatically wrap at the end of the circular receive buffer to the beginning. EXAMPLE 7-1: In the event that the application needed to do random access to the packet, it would be necessary to manually calculate the proper ERDPT, taking care to not exceed the end of the receive buffer if the packet spans the ERXND-to-ERXST buffer boundary. In other words, given the packet start address and a desired offset, the application should follow the logic shown in Example 7-1. RANDOM ACCESS ADDRESS CALCULATION if Packet Start Address + Offset > ERXND, then ERDPT = Packet Start Address + Offset – (ERXND – ERXST + 1) else ERDPT = Packet Start Address + Offset DS39662B-page 44 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 47. ENC28J60 7.2.4 FREEING RECEIVE BUFFER SPACE After the host controller has processed a packet (or part of the packet) and wishes to free the buffer space used by the processed data, the host controller must advance the Receive Buffer Read Pointer, ERXRDPT. The ENC28J60 will always write up to, but not including, the memory pointed to by the Receive Buffer Read Pointer. If the ENC28J60 ever attempts to overwrite the Receive Buffer Read Pointer location, the packet in progress will be aborted, the EIR.RXERIF will be set and an interrupt will be generated (if enabled). In this manner, the hardware will never overwrite unprocessed packets. Normally, the ERXRDPT will be advanced to the value pointed to by the next Packet Pointer which precedes the receive status vector for the current packet. Following such a procedure will not require any Pointer calculations to account for wrapping at the end of the circular receive buffer. The Receive Buffer Read Pointer Low Byte (ERXRDPTL register) is internally buffered to prevent the Pointer from moving when only one byte is updated through the SPI. To move ERXRDPT, the host controller must write to ERXRDPTL first. The write will update the internal buffer but will not affect the register. When the host controller writes to ERXRDPTH, the internally buffered low byte will be loaded into the ERXRDPTL register at the same time. The ERXRDPT bytes can be read in any order. When they are read, the actual value of the registers will be returned. As a result, the buffered low byte is not readable. In addition to advancing the Receive Buffer Read Pointer, after each packet is fully processed, the host controller must write a ‘1’ to the ECON2.PKTDEC bit. Doing so will cause the EPKTCNT register to decrement by 1. After decrementing, if EPKTCNT is ‘0’, the EIR.PKTIF flag will automatically be cleared. Otherwise, it will remain set, indicating that additional packets are in the receive buffer and are waiting to be processed. Attempts to decrement EPKTCNT below 0 are ignored. Additionally, if the EPKTCNT register ever maximizes at 255, all new packets which are received will be aborted, even if buffer space is available. To indicate the error, the EIR.RXERIF will be set and an interrupt will be generated (if enabled). To prevent this condition, the host controller must properly decrement the counter whenever a packet is processed. EXAMPLE 7-2: Because only one Pointer is available to control buffer area ownership, the host controller must process packets in the order they are received. If the host controller wishes to save a packet to be processed later, it should copy the packet to an unused location in memory. It may accomplish this efficiently using the integrated DMA controller (see Section 13.0 “Direct Memory Access Controller”). 7.2.5 RECEIVE BUFFER FREE SPACE At any time the host controller wishes to know how much receive buffer space is remaining, it should read the Hardware Write Pointer (ERXWRPT registers) and compare it with the ERXRDPT registers. Combined with the known size of the receive buffer, the free space can be derived. Note: The ERXWRPT registers only update when a packet has been successfully received. If the host controller reads it just before another packet is to be successfully completed, the value returned could be stale and off by the maximum frame length permitted (MAMXFLN) plus 7. Furthermore, as the host controller reads one byte of ERXWRPT, a new packet may arrive and update the Pointer before the host controller has an opportunity to read the other byte of ERXWRPT. When reading the ERXWRPT register with the receive hardware enabled, special care must be taken to ensure the low and high bytes are read as a matching set. To be assured that a matching set is obtained: 1. 2. 3. 4. Read the EPKTCNT register and save its contents. Read ERXWRPTL and ERXWRPTH. Read the EPKTCNT register again. Compare the two packet counts. If they are not the same, go back to step 2. With the Hardware Write Pointer obtained, the free space can be calculated as shown in Example 7-2. The hardware prohibits moving the Write Pointer to the same value occupied by ERXRDPT (except when the Buffer Pointers are being configured), so at least one byte will always go unused in the buffer. The example calculation reflects the lost byte. RECEIVE BUFFER FREE SPACE CALCULATION if ERXWRPT > ERXRDPT, then Free Space = (ERXND – ERXST) – (ERXWRPT – ERXRDPT) else if ERXWRPT = ERXRDPT, then Free Space = (ERXND – ERXST) else Free Space = ERXRDPT – ERXWRPT – 1 © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 45
  • 48. ENC28J60 TABLE 7-4: SUMMARY OF REGISTERS USED FOR PACKET RECEPTION Bit 7 Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0 Reset Values on page EIE INTIE PKTIE DMAIE LINKIE TXIE r TXERIE RXERIE 13 EIR — PKTIF DMAIF LINKIF TXIF r TXERIF RXERIF 13 ESTAT INT BUFER r LATECOL — RXBUSY TXABRT CLKRDY 13 ECON2 AUTOINC PKTDEC PWRSV r VRPS — — — 13 ECON1 TXRST RXRST DMAST CSUMEN TXRTS RXEN BSEL1 BSEL0 13 Register Name ERXSTL RX Start Low Byte (ERXST<7:0>) ERXSTH — ERXNDL — ERXRDPTL 13 RX Start High Byte (ERXST<12:8>) 13 — — RX End High Byte (ERXND<12:8>) 13 13 RX RD Pointer Low Byte (ERXRDPT<7:0>) ERXRDPTH EPKTCNT — RX End Low Byte (ERXND<7:0>) ERXNDH ERXFCON — — — — UCEN ANDOR CRCEN 13 RX RD Pointer High Byte (ERXRDPT<12:8>) PMEN MPEN HTEN MCEN 13 BCEN Ethernet Packet Count 14 14 MACON1 — — — r TXPAUS RXPAUS PASSALL MARXEN MACON3 PADCFG2 PADCFG1 PADCFG0 TXCRCEN PHDREN HFRMEN FRMLNEN FULDPX MAMXFLL Maximum Frame Length Low Byte (MAMXFL<7:0>) 14 Maximum Frame Length High Byte (MAMXFL<15:8>) 14 MAMXFLH Legend: 14 14 — = unimplemented, r = reserved bit. Shaded cells are not used. DS39662B-page 46 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 49. ENC28J60 8.0 RECEIVE FILTERS To minimize the processing requirements of the host controller, the ENC28J60 incorporates several different receive filters which can automatically reject packets which are not needed. Six different types of packet filters are implemented: • • • • • • Unicast Pattern Match Magic Packet™ Hash Table Multicast Broadcast © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. The individual filters are all configured by the ERXFCON register (Register 8-1). More than one filter can be active at any given time. Additionally, the filters can be configured by the ANDOR bit to either logically AND, or logically OR, the tests of several filters. In other words, the filters may be set so that only packets accepted by all active filters are accepted, or a packet accepted by any one filter is accepted. The flowcharts in Figure 8-1 and Figure 8-2 show the effect that each of the filters will have depending on the setting of ANDOR. The device can enter Promiscuous mode and receive all packets by clearing the ERXFCON register. The proper setting of the register will depend on the application requirements. Preliminary DS39662B-page 47
  • 50. ENC28J60 REGISTER 8-1: ERXFCON: ETHERNET RECEIVE FILTER CONTROL REGISTER R/W-1 R/W-0 R/W-1 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-1 UCEN ANDOR CRCEN PMEN MPEN HTEN MCEN BCEN bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 7 UCEN: Unicast Filter Enable bit When ANDOR = 1: 1 = Packets not having a destination address matching the local MAC address will be discarded 0 = Filter disabled When ANDOR = 0: 1 = Packets with a destination address matching the local MAC address will be accepted 0 = Filter disabled bit 6 ANDOR: AND/OR Filter Select bit 1 = AND: Packets will be rejected unless all enabled filters accept the packet 0 = OR: Packets will be accepted unless all enabled filters reject the packet bit 5 CRCEN: Post-Filter CRC Check Enable bit 1 = All packets with an invalid CRC will be discarded 0 = The CRC validity will be ignored bit 4 PMEN: Pattern Match Filter Enable bit When ANDOR = 1: 1 = Packets must meet the Pattern Match criteria or they will be discarded 0 = Filter disabled When ANDOR = 0: 1 = Packets which meet the Pattern Match criteria will be accepted 0 = Filter disabled bit 3 MPEN: Magic Packet Filter Enable bit When ANDOR = 1: 1 = Packets must be Magic Packets for the local MAC address or they will be discarded 0 = Filter disabled When ANDOR = 0: 1 = Magic Packets for the local MAC address will be accepted 0 = Filter disabled bit 2 HTEN: Hash Table Filter Enable bit When ANDOR = 1: 1 = Packets must meet the Hash Table criteria or they will be discarded 0 = Filter disabled When ANDOR = 0: 1 = Packets which meet the Hash Table criteria will be accepted 0 = Filter disabled bit 1 MCEN: Multicast Filter Enable bit When ANDOR = 1: 1 = Packets must have the Least Significant bit set in the destination address or they will be discarded 0 = Filter disabled When ANDOR = 0: 1 = Packets which have the Least Significant bit set in the destination address will be accepted 0 = Filter disabled bit 0 BCEN: Broadcast Filter Enable bit When ANDOR = 1: 1 = Packets must have a destination address of FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF or they will be discarded 0 = Filter disabled When ANDOR = 0: 1 = Packets which have a destination address of FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF will be accepted 0 = Filter disabled DS39662B-page 48 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 51. ENC28J60 FIGURE 8-1: RECEIVE FILTERING USING OR LOGIC Packet Detected on Wire ANDOR = 0 (OR) UCEN set? Yes Yes Unicast packet? No No PMEN set? Yes Yes Pattern matches? No No MPEN set? Yes Magic Packet for us? No Yes No HTEN set? Yes Yes Hash table bit set? No No MCEN set? Yes Multicast destination? No Yes No BCEN set? Yes Broadcast destination? No Yes CRCEN set? Yes No No CRC valid? No Yes Reject Packet © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary Accept Packet DS39662B-page 49
  • 52. ENC28J60 FIGURE 8-2: RECEIVE FILTERING USING AND LOGIC Packet Detected on Wire ANDOR = 1 (AND) UCEN set? Yes No Unicast packet? No Yes PMEN set? Yes Pattern matches? No No Yes MPEN set? Yes Magic Packet for us? No No Yes HTEN set? Yes No Hash table bit set? No Yes MCEN set? Yes Multicast destination? No No Yes BCEN set? Yes Broadcast destination? No No Yes No CRCEN set? Yes CRC valid? No Yes Accept Packet DS39662B-page 50 Preliminary Reject Packet © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 53. ENC28J60 8.1 Unicast Filter the filter criteria will immediately not be met, even if the corresponding mask bits are all ‘0’. The pattern match checksum registers should be programmed to the checksum which is expected for the selected bytes. The checksum is calculated in the same manner that the DMA module calculates checksums (see Section 13.2 “Checksum Calculations”). Data bytes which have corresponding mask bits programmed to ‘0’ are completely removed for purposes of calculating the checksum, as opposed to treating the data bytes as zero. The unicast receive filter checks the destination address of all incoming packets. If the destination address exactly matches the contents of the MAADR registers, the packet will meet the unicast filter criteria. 8.2 Pattern Match Filter The pattern match filter selects up to 64 bytes from the incoming packet and calculates an IP checksum of the bytes. The checksum is then compared to the EPMCS registers. The packet meets the pattern match filter criteria if the calculated checksum matches the EPMCS registers. The pattern match filter may be useful for filtering packets which have expected data inside them. As an example, if the application wished to filter all packets having a particular source MAC address of 00-04-A3-FF-FF-FF, it could program the pattern match offset to 0000h and then set bits 6 and 7 of EPMM0 and bits 0, 1, 2 and 3 of EPMM1 (assuming all other mask bits are ‘0’). The proper checksum to program into the EPMCS registers would be 0x5BFC. As an alternative configuration, it could program the offset to 0006h and set bits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of EPMM0. The checksum would still be 5BFCh. However, the second case would be less desirable as packets less than 70 bytes long could never meet the pattern match criteria, even if they would generate the proper checksum given the mask configuration. To use the pattern match filter, the host controller must program the pattern match offset (EPMOH:EPMOL), all of the pattern match mask bytes (EPMM7:EPMM0) and the pattern match checksum register pair (EPMCSH:EPMCSL). The pattern match offset should be loaded with the offset from the beginning of the destination address field to the 64-byte window which will be used for the checksum computation. Within the 64-byte window, each individual byte can be selectively included or excluded from the checksum computation by setting or clearing the respective bit in the pattern match mask. If a packet is received which would cause the 64 byte window to extend past the end of the CRC, FIGURE 8-3: Another example of a pattern matching filter is illustrated in Figure 8-3. SAMPLE PATTERN MATCH FORMAT Input Configuration: EMPOH:EPMOL = 0006h EPMM7:EPMM0 = 0000000000001F0Ah EPMCSH:EPMCSL = 563Fh Field DA SA Type/Length Data FCS Received Data 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99 AA BB CC 00 5A 09 0A 0B 0C 0D . . . 40 . . . FE 45 23 01 Byte # 0 1 2 3 4 5 14 15 16 17 18 . . . 70 . . . 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Bytes used for Checksum Computation 64-byte Window used for Pattern Match Values used for Checksum Computation = {88h, AAh, 09h, 0Ah, 0Bh, 0Ch, 0Dh, 00h} (00h padding byte added by hardware) Note: Received data is shown in hexadecimal. Byte numbers are shown in decimal format. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 51
  • 54. ENC28J60 8.3 Magic Packet™ Filter The Magic Packet filter checks the destination address and data fields of all incoming packets. If the destination address matches the MAADR registers and the data field holds a valid Magic Packet pattern someplace FIGURE 8-4: within it, then the packet will meet the Magic Packet filter criteria. The Magic Packet pattern consists of a sync pattern of six 0xFF bytes, followed by 16 repeats of the destination address. See Figure 8-4 for a sample Magic Packet. SAMPLE MAGIC PACKET™ FORMAT Received Data Field 11 22 33 44 55 66 Comments DA SA Type/Length 77 88 99 AA BB CC 00 FE 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E FF FF FF FF FF 00 Sync Pattern FF FF FF FF FF FF 11 22 33 44 55 66 11 22 33 44 55 66 11 22 33 44 55 66 11 22 33 44 55 66 11 22 33 44 55 66 11 22 33 44 55 66 11 22 33 44 55 66 Data 11 22 33 44 55 66 11 22 33 44 55 66 Sixteen Repeats of the Station Address 11 22 33 44 55 66 11 22 33 44 55 66 11 22 33 44 55 66 11 22 33 44 55 66 11 22 33 44 55 66 11 22 33 44 55 66 11 22 33 44 55 66 19 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E EF 54 32 10 8.4 FCS Hash Table Filter 8.5 The hash table receive filter performs a CRC over the six destination address bytes in the packet. The CRC is then used as a Pointer into the bits of the EHT registers. If the Pointer points to a bit which is set, the packet meets the hash table filter criteria. For example, if the CRC is calculated to be 0x5, bit 5 in the hash table will be checked. If it is set, the hash table filter criteria will be met. If every bit is clear in the hash table, the filter criteria will never be met. Similarly, if every bit is set in the hash table, the filter criteria will always be met. DS39662B-page 52 Multicast Filter The multicast receive filter checks the destination address of all incoming packets. If the Least Significant bit of the first byte of the destination address is set, the packet will meet the multicast filter criteria. 8.6 Broadcast Filter The broadcast receive filter checks the destination address of all incoming packets. If the destination address is FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF, the packet will meet the broadcast filter criteria. Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 55. ENC28J60 9.0 DUPLEX MODE CONFIGURATION AND NEGOTIATION 2. The ENC28J60 does not support automatic duplex negotiation. If it is connected to an automatic duplex negotiation enabled network switch or Ethernet controller, the ENC28J60 will be detected as a half-duplex device. To communicate in Full-Duplex mode, the ENC28J60 and the remote node (switch, router or Ethernet controller) must be manually configured for full-duplex operation. 9.1 Half-Duplex Operation The ENC28J60 operates in Half-Duplex mode when MACON3.FULDPX = 0 and PHCON1.PDPXMD = 0. If only one of these two bits is set, the ENC28J60 will be in an indeterminate state and not function correctly. Since switching between Full and Half-Duplex modes may result in this indeterminate state, the host controller should not transmit any packets (maintain ECON1.TXRTS clear) and packet reception should be disabled (ECON1.RXEN and ESTAT.RXBUSY should be clear) during this period. In Half-Duplex mode, only one Ethernet controller may be transmitting on the physical medium at any time. If the host controller sets the ECON1.TXRTS bit, requesting that a packet be transmitted while another Ethernet controller is already transmitting, the ENC28J60 will delay, waiting for the remote transmitter to stop. After the transmission stops, the ENC28J60 will attempt to transmit its packet. If another Ethernet controller starts transmitting at approximately the same time that the ENC28J60 starts transmitting, the data on the wire will become corrupt and a collision will occur. The hardware will handle this condition in one of two ways: 1. If the collision occurs before the number of bytes specified by the “Collision Window” in MACLCON2 were transmitted, the ECON1.TXRTS bit will remain set, a random exponential back off delay will elapse as defined by the IEEE 802.3 specification and then a new attempt to transmit the packet from the beginning will occur. The host controller will not need to intervene. If the number of retransmission attempts already matches the “Retransmission Maximum” (RETMAX) defined in MACLCON1, the packet will be aborted and ECON1.TXRTS will be cleared. The host controller will then be responsible for taking appropriate action. The host controller will be able to determine that the packet was aborted instead of being successfully transmitted by reading the ESTAT.TXABRT flag. For more information, see Section 7.1 “Transmitting Packets”. A transmit abort will cause the transmit error interrupt. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. If the collision occurs after the number of bytes specified by the “Collision Window” in MACLCON2 were transmitted, the packet will be immediately aborted without any retransmission attempts. Ordinarily, in 802.3 compliant networks which are properly configured, this late collision will not occur. User intervention may be required to correct the issue. This problem may occur as a result of a full-duplex node attempting to transmit on the half-duplex medium. Alternately, the ENC28J60 may be attempting to operate in Half-Duplex mode while it may be connected to a full-duplex network. Excessively long cabling and network size may also be a possible cause of late collisions. When set in Half-Duplex mode, the Reset default configuration will loop transmitted packets back to itself. Unless the receive filter configuration filters these packets out, they will be written into the circular receive buffer, just as any other network traffic. To stop this behavior, the host controller should set the PHCON2.HDLDIS bit. 9.2 Full-Duplex Operation The ENC28J60 operates in Full-Duplex mode when MACON3.FULDPX = 1 and PHCON1.PDPXMD = 1. If only one of these two bits is clear, the ENC28J60 will be in an indeterminate state and not function correctly. Since switching between Full and Half-Duplex modes may result in this indeterminate state, the host controller should not transmit any packets (maintain ECON1.TXRTS clear) and packet reception should be disabled (ECON1.RXEN and ESTAT.RXBUSY should be clear) during this period. In Full-Duplex mode, packets will be transmitted simultaneously while packets may be received. Given this, it is impossible to cause any collisions when transmitting packets. Several configuration fields, such as “Retransmission Maximum” (RETMAX) in MACLCON1 and “Collision Window” (COLWIN) in MACLCON2, will not be used. When set in Full-Duplex mode, the Reset default configuration will not loop transmitted packets back to itself. If loopback is desired for diagnostic purposes, the PHCON1.PLOOPBK bit should be set by the host controller. Enabling loopback in Full-Duplex mode will disable the twisted pair output driver and ignore all incoming data, thus dropping any link (if established). All packets received as a result of the loopback configuration will be subject to all enabled receive filters, just as ordinary network traffic would be. Preliminary DS39662B-page 53
  • 57. 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 InterPacket 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. 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 Given the detrimental network effects that are possible and lack of effectiveness, it is not recommend that halfduplex flow control be used unless the application will be in a closed network environment with proper testing. Computer A 10.2 Computer B 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- © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary Ethernet Switch MCP22S80 E N C 28 J 6 0 DS39662B-page 55
  • 58. ENC28J60 To enable flow control on the ENC28J60 in Full-Duplex mode, the host controller must set the TXPAUS and RXPAUS bits in the MACON1 register. Then, at any time that the receiver buffer is running out of space, the host controller should turn flow control on by writing the value 02h to the EFLOCON register. The hardware will periodically transmit pause frames loaded with the pause timer value specified in the EPAUS registers. The host controller can continue to transmit its own packets without interfering with the flow control hardware. When space has been made available for more packets in the receive buffer, the host controller should turn flow control off by writing the value 03h to the EFLOCON register. The hardware will send one last pause frame loaded with a pause timer value of 0000h. When the pause frame is received by the remote node, it will resume normal network operations. REGISTER 10-1: When RXPAUS is set in the MACON1 register and a valid pause frame arrives with a non-zero pause timer value, the ENC28J60 will automatically inhibit transmissions. If the host controller sets the ECON1.TXRTS bit to send a packet, the hardware will simply wait until the pause timer expires before attempting to send the packet and subsequently clearing the TXRTS bit. Normally, the host controller will never know that a pause frame has been received. However, if it is desirable to the host controller to know when the MAC is paused or not, it should set the PASSALL bit in MACON1 and then manually interpret the pause control frames which may arrive. EFLOCON: ETHERNET FLOW CONTROL REGISTER U-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 R-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 — — — — — FULDPXS FCEN1 FCEN0 bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 7-3 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 2 FULDPXS: Read-Only MAC Full-Duplex Shadow bit 1 = MAC is configured for Full-Duplex mode, FULDPX (MACON3<0>) is set 0 = MAC is configured for Half-Duplex mode, FULDPX (MACON3<0>) is clear bit 1-0 FCEN1:FCEN0: Flow Control Enable bits When FULDPXS = 1: 11 = Send one pause frame with a ‘0’ timer value and then turn flow control off 10 = Send pause frames periodically 01 = Send one pause frame then turn flow control off 00 = Flow control off When FULDPXS = 0: 11 = Flow control on 10 = Flow control off 01 = Flow control on 00 = Flow control off DS39662B-page 56 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 59. ENC28J60 TABLE 10-1: Name ECON1 SUMMARY OF REGISTERS USED WITH FLOW CONTROL Bit 7 Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 TXRST RXRST DMAST CSUMEN TXRTS RXEN MACON1 — — — r TXPAUS RXPAUS MABBIPG — EFLOCON — Bit 1 Bit 0 Reset Values on page BSEL1 BSEL0 13 PASSALL MARXEN Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap (BBIPG<6:0>) — — — — 14 14 FULDPXS FCEN1 FCEN0 14 EPAUSL Pause Timer Value Low Byte (EPAUS<7:0>) 14 EPAUSH Pause Timer Value High Byte (EPAUS<15:8>) 14 Legend: — = unimplemented, read as ‘0’. Shaded cells are not used. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 57
  • 61. ENC28J60 11.0 RESET The ENC28J60 differentiates between various kinds of Reset: • • • • • Power-on Reset (POR) System Reset Transmit Only Reset Receive Only Reset Miscellaneous MAC and PHY Subsystem Resets A simplified block diagram of the On-Chip Reset Circuit is shown in Figure 11-1. FIGURE 11-1: ON-CHIP RESET CIRCUIT Soft Reset Command Hardware Reset System Reset POR Reset Host Interface Reset Transmit Transmit Reset Reset Receive Receive Reset © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 59
  • 62. ENC28J60 11.1 Power-on Reset (POR) A Power-on Reset pulse is generated on-chip whenever VDD rises above a certain threshold. This allows the device to start in the initialized state when VDD is adequate for operation. The POR circuitry is always enabled. As a result, most applications do not need to attach any external circuitry to the RESET pin to ensure a proper Reset at powerup. The RESET pin’s internal weak pull-up will maintain a logical high level on the pin during normal device operation. To ensure proper POR operation, a minimum rise rate for VDD is specified (parameter D003). The application circuit must meet this requirement to allow the Oscillator Start-up Timer and CLKOUT functions to reset properly. After a Power-on Reset, the contents of the dual port buffer memory will be unknown. However, all registers will be loaded with their specified Reset values. Certain portions of the ENC28J60 must not be accessed immediately after a POR. See Section 2.2 “Oscillator Start-up Timer” for more information. 11.2 System Reset The System Reset of ENC28J60 can be accomplished by either the RESET pin, or through the SPI interface. The RESET pin provides an asynchronous method for triggering an external Reset of the device. A Reset is generated by holding the RESET pin low. The ENC28J60 has a noise filter in the RESET path which detects and ignores small pulses of time tRSTLOW or less. When the RESET pin is held high, the ENC28J60 will operate normally. After a System Reset, all PHY registers should not be read or written to until at least 50 μs have passed since the Reset has ended. All registers will revert to their Reset default values. The dual port buffer memory will maintain state throughout the System Reset. 11.3 Transmit Only Reset The Transmit Only Reset is performed by writing a ‘1’ to the TXRST bit in the ECON1 register using the SPI interface. If a packet was being transmitted when the TXRST bit was set, the hardware will automatically clear the TXRTS bit and abort the transmission. This action resets the transmit logic only. The System Reset automatically performs the Transmit Only Reset. Other register and control blocks, such as buffer management and host interface, are not affected by a Transmit Only Reset event. When the host controller wishes to return to normal operation, it should clear the TXRST bit. 11.4 Receive Only Reset The Receive Only Reset is performed by writing a ‘1’ to the RXRST bit in the ECON1 register using the SPI interface. If packet reception was enabled (the RXEN bit was set) when RXRST was set, the hardware will automatically clear the RXEN bit. If a packet was being received, it would be immediately aborted. This action resets receive logic only. The System Reset automatically performs Receive Only Reset. Other register and control blocks, such as the buffer management and host interface blocks, are not affected by a Receive Only Reset event. When the host controller wishes to return to normal operation, it should clear the RXRST bit. The ENC28J60 can also be reset via the SPI using the System Reset Command. See Section 4.0 “Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)”. The RESET pin will not be driven low by any internal Resets, including a System Reset Command via the SPI interface. DS39662B-page 60 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 63. ENC28J60 11.5 PHY Subsystem Reset The PHY module may be reset by writing a ‘1’ to the PRST bit in the PHCON1 register (Register 11-1). All the PHY register contents will revert to their Reset defaults. REGISTER 11-1: Unlike other Resets, the PHY cannot be removed from Reset immediately after setting PRST. The PHY requires a delay, after which the hardware automatically clears the PRST bit. After a Reset is issued, the host controller should poll PRST and wait for it to become clear before using the PHY. PHCON1: PHY CONTROL REGISTER 1 R/W-0 R/W-0 U-0 U-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 U-0 R/W-0 PRST PLOOPBK — — PPWRSV r — PDPXMD bit 15 bit 8 R/W-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 U-0 r — — — — — — — bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 15 PRST: PHY Software Reset bit 1 = PHY is processing a Software Reset (automatically resets to ‘0’ when done) 0 = Normal operation bit 14 PLOOPBK: PHY Loopback bit 1 = All data transmitted will be returned to the MAC. The twisted-pair interface will be disabled. 0 = Normal operation bit 13-12 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 11 PPWRSV: PHY Power-Down bit 1 = PHY is shut down 0 = Normal operation bit 10 Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’ bit 9 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 8 PDPXMD: PHY Duplex Mode bit 1 = PHY operates in Full-Duplex mode 0 = PHY operates in Half-Duplex mode bit 7 Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’ bit 6-0 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 61
  • 65. ENC28J60 12.0 INTERRUPTS The ENC28J60 has multiple interrupt sources and an interrupt output pin to signal the occurrence of events to the host controller. The interrupt pin is designed for use by a host controller that is capable of detecting falling edges. Interrupts are managed with two registers. The EIE register contains the individual interrupt enable bits for each interrupt source, while the EIR register contains the corresponding interrupt flag bits. When an interrupt occurs, the interrupt flag is set. If the interrupt is enabled in the EIE register and the INTIE global interrupt enable bit is set, the INT pin will be driven low (see Figure 12-1). Note: Except for the LINKIF interrupt flag, interrupt flag bits are set when an interrupt condition occurs regardless of the state of its corresponding enable bit or the associated global enable bit. User software should ensure the appropriate interrupt flag bits are clear prior to enabling an interrupt. This feature allows for software polling. FIGURE 12-1: When an enabled interrupt occurs, the interrupt pin will remain low until all flags which are causing the interrupt are cleared or masked off (enable bit is cleared) by the host controller. If more than one interrupt source is enabled, the host controller must poll each flag in the EIR register to determine the source(s) of the interrupt. It is recommended that the Bit Field Clear (BFC) SPI command be used to reset the flag bits in the EIR register rather than the normal Write Control Register (WCR) command. This is necessary to prevent unintentionally altering a flag that changes during the write command. The BFC and WCR commands are discussed in detail in Section 4.0 “Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)”. After an interrupt occurs, the host controller should clear the global enable bit for the interrupt pin before servicing the interrupt. Clearing the enable bit will cause the interrupt pin to return to the non-asserted state (high). Doing so will prevent the host controller from missing a falling edge should another interrupt occur while the immediate interrupt is being serviced. After the interrupt has been serviced, the global enable bit may be restored. If an interrupt event occurred while the previous interrupt was being processed, the act of resetting the global enable bit will cause a new falling edge on the interrupt pin to occur. ENC28J60 INTERRUPT LOGIC PKTIF PKTIE DMAIF PLNKIF PGIF PLNKIE PGEIE DMAIE LINKIF INT LINKIE INT TXIF TXIE INTIE TXERIF TXERIE RXERIF RXERIE © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 63
  • 66. ENC28J60 12.1 INT Interrupt Enable (INTIE) The INT Interrupt Enable bit (INTIE) is a global enable bit which allows the following interrupts to drive the INT pin: • • • • • • 12.1.1 Receive Error Interrupt (RXERIF) Transmit Error Interrupt (TXERIF) Transmit Interrupt (TXIF) Link Change Interrupt (LINKIF) DMA Interrupt (DMAIF) Receive Packet Pending Interrupt (PKTIF) REGISTER 12-1: When any of the above interrupts are enabled and generated, the virtual bit, INT in the ESTAT register (Register 12-1), will be set to ‘1’. If EIE.INTIE is ‘1’, the INT pin will be driven low. INT INTERRUPT REGISTERS The registers associated with the INT interrupts are shown in Register 12-2, Register 12-3, Register 12-4 and Register 12-5. ESTAT: ETHERNET STATUS REGISTER R-0 R/C-0 R-0 R/C-0 U-0 R-0 R/C-0 R/W-0 INT BUFER r LATECOL — RXBUSY TXABRT CLKRDY bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit C = Clearable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 7 INT: INT Interrupt Flag bit 1 = INT interrupt is pending 0 = No INT interrupt is pending bit 6 BUFER: Ethernet Buffer Error Status bit 1 = An Ethernet read or write has generated a buffer error (overrun or underrun) 0 = No buffer error has occurred bit 5 Reserved: Read as ‘0’ bit 4 LATECOL: Late Collision Error bit 1 = A collision occurred after 64 bytes had been transmitted 0 = No collisions after 64 bytes have occurred bit 3 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 2 RXBUSY: Receive Busy bit 1 = Receive logic is receiving a data packet 0 = Receive logic is Idle bit 1 TXABRT: Transmit Abort Error bit 1 = The transmit request was aborted 0 = No transmit abort error bit 0 CLKRDY: Clock Ready bit 1 = OST has expired; PHY is ready 0 = OST is still counting; PHY is not ready DS39662B-page 64 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 67. ENC28J60 REGISTER 12-2: EIE: ETHERNET INTERRUPT ENABLE REGISTER R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 INTIE PKTIE DMAIE LINKIE TXIE r TXERIE RXERIE bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared bit 7 INTIE: Global INT Interrupt Enable bit 1 = Allow interrupt events to drive the INT pin 0 = Disable all INT pin activity (pin is continuously driven high) bit 6 PKTIE: Receive Packet Pending Interrupt Enable bit 1 = Enable receive packet pending interrupt 0 = Disable receive packet pending interrupt bit 5 DMAIE: DMA Interrupt Enable bit 1 = Enable DMA interrupt 0 = Disable DMA interrupt bit 4 LINKIE: Link Status Change Interrupt Enable bit 1 = Enable link change interrupt from the PHY 0 = Disable link change interrupt bit 3 TXIE: Transmit Enable bit 1 = Enable transmit interrupt 0 = Disable transmit interrupt bit 2 Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’ bit 1 TXERIE: Transmit Error Interrupt Enable bit 1 = Enable transmit error interrupt 0 = Disable transmit error interrupt bit 0 x = Bit is unknown RXERIE: Receive Error Interrupt Enable bit 1 = Enable receive error interrupt 0 = Disable receive error interrupt © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 65
  • 68. ENC28J60 REGISTER 12-3: EIR: ETHERNET INTERRUPT REQUEST (FLAG) REGISTER U-0 R-0 R/C-0 R-0 R/C-0 R-0 R/C-0 R/C-0 — PKTIF DMAIF LINKIF TXIF r TXERIF RXERIF bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit C = Clearable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 7 Unimplemented: Read as ‘0’ bit 6 PKTIF: Receive Packet Pending Interrupt Flag bit 1 = Receive buffer contains one or more unprocessed packets; cleared when PKTDEC is set 0 = Receive buffer is empty bit 5 DMAIF: DMA Interrupt Flag bit 1 = DMA copy or checksum calculation has completed 0 = No DMA interrupt is pending bit 4 LINKIF: Link Change Interrupt Flag bit 1 = PHY reports that the link status has changed; read PHIR register to clear 0 = Link status has not changed bit 3 TXIF: Transmit Interrupt Flag bit 1 = Transmit request has ended 0 = No transmit interrupt is pending bit 2 Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’ bit 1 TXERIF: Transmit Error Interrupt Flag bit 1 = A transmit error has occurred 0 = No transmit error has occurred bit 0 RXERIF: Receive Error Interrupt Flag bit 1 = A packet was aborted because there is insufficient buffer space or the packet count is 255 0 = No receive error interrupt is pending DS39662B-page 66 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 69. ENC28J60 REGISTER 12-4: PHIE: PHY INTERRUPT ENABLE REGISTER R-0 R-0 R-0 R-0 R-0 R-0 R-0 R-0 r r r r r r r r bit 15 bit 8 R-0 R-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R-0 R-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 r r r PLNKIE r r PGEIE r bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared bit 15-6 Reserved: Write as ‘0’, ignore on read bit 5 Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’ bit 4 PLNKIE: PHY Link Change Interrupt Enable bit 1 = PHY link change interrupt is enabled 0 = PHY link change interrupt is disabled bit 3-2 Reserved: Write as ‘0’, ignore on read bit 1 PGEIE: PHY Global Interrupt Enable bit 1 = PHY interrupts are enabled 0 = PHY interrupts are disabled bit 0 x = Bit is unknown Reserved: Maintain as ‘0’ REGISTER 12-5: PHIR: PHY INTERRUPT REQUEST (FLAG) REGISTER R-x R-x R-x R-x R-x R-x R-x R-x r r r r r r r r bit 15 bit 8 R-x R-x R-0 R/SC-0 R-0 R/SC-0 R-x R-0 r r r PLNKIF r PGIF r r bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit SC = Self-clearing bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 15-6 Reserved: Do not modify bit 5 Reserved: Read as ‘0’ bit 4 PLNKIF: PHY Link Change Interrupt Flag bit 1 = PHY link status has changed since PHIR was last read; resets to ‘0’ when read 0 = PHY link status has not changed since PHIR was last read bit 3 Reserved: Read as ‘0’ bit 2 PGIF: PHY Global Interrupt Flag bit 1 = One or more enabled PHY interrupts have occurred since PHIR was last read; resets to ‘0’ when read 0 = No PHY interrupts have occurred bit 1 Reserved: Do not modify bit 0 Reserved: Read as ‘0’ © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 67
  • 70. ENC28J60 12.1.2 RECEIVE ERROR INTERRUPT FLAG (RXERIF) The Receive Error Interrupt Flag (RXERIF) is used to indicate a receive buffer overflow condition. Alternately, this interrupt may indicate that too many packets are in the receive buffer and more cannot be stored without overflowing the EPKTCNT register. When a packet is being received and the receive buffer runs completely out of space, or EPKTCNT is 255 and cannot be incremented, the packet being received will be aborted (permanently lost) and the EIR.RXERIF bit will be set to ‘1’. Once set, RXERIF can only be cleared by the host controller or by a Reset condition. If the receive error interrupt and INT interrupt are enabled (EIE.RXERIE = 1 and EIE.INTIE = 1), an interrupt is generated by driving the INT pin low. If the receive error interrupt is not enabled (EIE.RXERIE = 0 or EIE.INTIE = 0), the host controller may poll the ENC28J60 for the RXERIF and take appropriate action. Normally, upon the receive error condition, the host controller would process any packets pending from the receive buffer and then make additional room for future packets by advancing the ERXRDPT registers (low byte first) and decrementing the EPKTCNT register. See Section 7.2.4 “Freeing Receive Buffer Space” for more information on processing packets. Once processed, the host controller should use the BFC command to clear the EIR.RXERIF bit. 12.1.3 2. 3. 4. 5. Excessive collisions occurred as defined by the Retransmission Maximum (RETMAX) bits in the MACLCON1 register. A late collision occurred as defined by the Collision Window (COLWIN) bits in the MACLCON2 register. A collision after transmitting 64 bytes occurred (ESTAT.LATECOL set). The transmission was unable to gain an opportunity to transmit the packet because the medium was constantly occupied for too long. The deferral limit (2.4287 ms) was reached and the MACON4.DEFER bit was clear. An attempt to transmit a packet larger than the maximum frame length defined by the MAMXFL registers was made without setting the MACON3.HFRMEN bit or per packet POVERRIDE and PHUGEEN bits. DS39662B-page 68 After a transmit abort, the TXRTS bit will be cleared, the ESTAT.TXABRT bit will be set and the transmit status vector will be written at ETXND + 1. The MAC will not automatically attempt to retransmit the packet. The host controller may wish to read the transmit status vector and LATECOL bit to determine the cause of the abort. After determining the problem and solution, the host controller should clear the LATECOL (if set) and TXABRT bits so that future aborts can be detected accurately. In Full-Duplex mode, condition 5 is the only one that should cause this interrupt. Collisions and other problems related to sharing the network are not possible on full-duplex networks. The conditions which cause the transmit error interrupt meet the requirements of the transmit interrupt. As a result, when this interrupt occurs, TXIF will also be simultaneously set. 12.1.4 TRANSMIT ERROR INTERRUPT FLAG (TXERIF) The Transmit Error Interrupt Flag (TXERIF) is used to indicate that a transmit abort has occurred. An abort can occur because of any of the following: 1. Upon any of these conditions, the EIR.TXERIF flag is set to ‘1’. Once set, it can only be cleared by the host controller or by a Reset condition. If the transmit error interrupt is enabled (EIE.TXERIE = 1 and EIE.INTIE = 1), an interrupt is generated by driving the INT pin low for one OSC1 period. If the transmit error interrupt is not enabled (EIE.TXERIE = 0 or EIE.INTIE = 0), the host controller may poll the ENC28J60 for the TXERIF and take appropriate action. Once the interrupt is processed, the host controller should use the BFC command to clear the EIR.TXERIF bit. TRANSMIT INTERRUPT FLAG (TXIF) The Transmit Interrupt Flag (TXIF) is used to indicate that the requested packet transmission has ended (ECON1.TXRTS has transitioned from ‘1’ to ‘0’). Upon transmission completion, abort or transmission cancellation by the host controller, the EIR.TXIF flag will be set to ‘1’. If the host controller did not clear the TXRTS bit and the ESTAT.TXABRT bit is not set, then the packet was successfully transmitted. Once TXIF is set, it can only be cleared by the host controller or by a Reset condition. If the transmit interrupt is enabled (EIE.TXIE = 1 and EIE.INTIE = 1), an interrupt is generated by driving the INT pin low. If the transmit interrupt is not enabled (EIE.TXIE = 0 or EIE.INTIE = 0), the host controller may poll the ENC28J60 for the TXIF bit and take appropriate action. Once processed, the host controller should use the BFC command to clear the EIR.TXIF bit. Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 71. ENC28J60 12.1.5 LINK CHANGE INTERRUPT FLAG (LINKIF) 12.1.6 The LINKIF indicates that the link status has changed. The actual current link status can be obtained from the PHSTAT1.LLSTAT or PHSTAT2.LSTAT (see Register 3-5 and Register 3-6). Unlike other interrupt sources, the link status change interrupt is created in the integrated PHY module; additional steps must be taken to enable it. By Reset default, LINKIF is never set for any reason. To receive it, the host controller must set the PHIE.PLNKIE and PGEIE bits. After setting the two PHY interrupt enable bits, the LINKIF bit will then shadow the contents of the PHIR.PGIF bit. The PHY only supports one interrupt, so the PGIF bit will always be the same as the PHIR.PLNKIF bit (when both PHY enable bits are set). Once LINKIF is set, it can only be cleared by the host controller or by a Reset. If the link change interrupt is enabled (EIE.LINKIE = 1, EIE.INTIE = 1, PHIE.PLNKIE = 1 and PHIE.PGEIE = 1), an interrupt will be generated by driving the INT pin low. If the link change interrupt is not enabled (EIE.LINKIE = 0, EIE.INTIE = 0, PHIE.PLNKIE = 0 or PHIE.PGEIE = 0), the host controller may poll the ENC28J60 for the PHIR.PLNKIF bit and take appropriate action. The LINKIF bit is read-only. Because reading from PHY registers requires non-negligible time, the host controller may instead set PHIE.PLNKIE and PHIE.PGEIE and then poll the EIR.LINKIF bit. Performing an MII read on the PHIR register will clear the LINKIF, PGIF and PLNKIF bits automatically and allow for future link status change interrupts. See Section 3.3 “PHY Registers” for information on accessing the PHY registers. DMA INTERRUPT FLAG (DMAIF) The DMA interrupt indicates that the DMA module has completed its memory copy or checksum calculation (ECON1.DMAST has transitioned from ‘1’ to ‘0’). Additionally, this interrupt will be caused if the host controller cancels a DMA operation by manually clearing the DMAST bit. Once set, DMAIF can only be cleared by the host controller or by a Reset condition. If the DMA interrupt is enabled (EIE.DMAIE = 1 and EIE.INTIE = 1), an interrupt is generated by driving the INT pin low. If the DMA interrupt is not enabled (EIE.DMAIE = 0 or EIE.INTIE = 0), the host controller may poll the ENC28J60 for the DMAIF and take appropriate action. Once processed, the host controller should use the BFC command to clear the EIR.DMAIF bit. 12.1.7 RECEIVE PACKET PENDING INTERRUPT FLAG (PKTIF) The Receive Packet Pending Interrupt Flag (PKTIF) is used to indicate the presence of one or more data packets in the receive buffer and to provide a notification means for the arrival of new packets. When the receive buffer has at least one packet in it, EIR.PKTIF will be set. In other words, this interrupt flag will be set anytime the Ethernet Packet Count register (EPKTCNT) is non-zero. If the receive packet pending interrupt is enabled (EIE.PKTIE = 1 and EIE.INTIE = 1), an interrupt will be generated by driving the INT pin low whenever a new packet is successfully received and written into the receive buffer. If the receive packet pending interrupt is not enabled (EIE.PKTIE = 0 or EIE.INTIE = 0), the host controller will not be notified when new packets arrive. However, it may poll the PKTIF bit and take appropriate action. The PKTIF bit can only be cleared by the host controller or by a Reset condition. In order to clear PKTIF, the EPKTCNT register must be decremented to ‘0’. See Section 7.2 “Receiving Packets” for more information about clearing the EPKTCNT register. If the last data packet in the receive buffer is processed, EPKTCNT will become zero and the PKTIF bit will automatically be cleared. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 69
  • 72. ENC28J60 12.2 12.2.1 Wake-On-LAN/Remote Wake-up Wake-On-LAN or Remote Wake-up is useful in conserving system power. The host controller and other subsystems can be put in Low-Power mode and be woken up by the ENC28J60 when a wake-up packet is received from a remote station. The ENC28J60 must not be in Power-Save mode and the transmit and receive modules must be enabled in order to receive a wake-up packet. The ENC28J60 wakes up the host controller via the INT signal when the Interrupt Mask registers are properly configured. The receive filter can also be set up to only receive a specific wake-up packet (see Register 8-1 for available options). Section 12.2.1 “Setup Steps for Waking Up on a Magic Packet” shows the steps necessary in configuring the ENC28J60 to send an interrupt signal to the host controller upon the reception of a Magic packet. DS39662B-page 70 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. SETUP STEPS FOR WAKING UP ON A MAGIC PACKET Set ERXFCON.CRCEN and ERXFCON.MPEN. Service all pending packets. Set EIE.PKTIE and EIE.INTIE. Set up the host controller to wake-up on an external interrupt INT signal. Put the host controller and other subsystems to Sleep to save power. Once a Magic packet is received, the EPKTCNT is incremented to ‘1’, which causes the EIR.PKTIF bit to set. In turn, the ESTAT.INT bit is set and the INT signal is driven low, causing the host to wake-up. Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 73. ENC28J60 13.0 DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS CONTROLLER 13.1 To copy memory within the buffer: The ENC28J60 incorporates a dual purpose DMA controller which can be used to copy data between locations within the 8-Kbyte memory buffer. It can also be used to calculate a 16-bit checksum which is compatible with various industry standard protocols, including TCP and IP. When a DMA operation begins, the EDMAST register pair is copied into an Internal Source Pointer. The DMA will execute on one byte at a time and then increment the Internal Source Pointer. However, if a byte is processed and the Internal Source Pointer is equal to the Receive Buffer End Pointer, ERXND, the Source Pointer will not be incremented. Instead, the Internal Source Pointer will be loaded with the Receive Buffer Start Pointer, ERXST. In this way, the DMA will follow the circular FIFO structure of the receive buffer and received packets can be processed using one operation. The DMA operation will end when the Internal Source Pointer matches the EDMAND Pointer. While any DMA operation is in progress, the DMA Pointers and the ECON1.CSUMEN bit should not be modified. The DMA operation can be canceled at any time by clearing the ECON1.DMAST bit. No registers will change; however, some memory bytes may already have been copied if a DMA copy was in progress. Note 1: If the EDMAND Pointer cannot be reached because of the receive buffer wrapping behavior, the DMA operation will never end. 2: By design, the DMA module cannot be used to copy only one byte (EDMAST = EDMAND). An attempt to do so will overwrite all memory in the buffer and may never end. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Copying Memory 1. 2. 3. 4. Appropriately program the EDMAST, EDMAND and EDMADST register pairs. The EDMAST registers should point to the first byte to copy from, the EDMAND registers should point to the last byte to copy and the EDMADST registers should point to the first byte in the destination range. The destination range will always be linear, never wrapping at any values except from 8191 to 0 (the 8-Kbyte memory boundary). Extreme care should be taken when programming the Start and End Pointers to prevent a never ending DMA operation which would overwrite the entire 8-Kbyte buffer. If an interrupt at the end of the copy process is desired, set EIE.DMAIE and EIE.INTIE and clear EIR.DMAIF. Verify that ECON1.CSUMEN is clear. Start the DMA copy by setting ECON1.DMAST. If a transmit operation is in progress (TXRTS set) while the DMAST bit is set, the ENC28J60 will wait until the transmit operation is complete before attempting to do the DMA copy. This possible delay is required because the DMA and transmission engine share the same memory access port. When the copy is complete, the DMA hardware will clear the DMAST bit, set the DMAIF bit and generate an interrupt (if enabled). The Pointers and the EDMACS registers will not be modified. After the DMA module has been initialized and has begun its copy, two main clock cycles will be required for each byte copied. As a result, if a maximum size 1518-byte packet was copied, the DMA module would require slightly more than 121.44 μs to complete. The time required to copy a minimum size packet of 64 bytes would be dominated by the time required to configure the DMA. Preliminary DS39662B-page 71
  • 74. ENC28J60 13.2 Checksum Calculations The checksum calculation logic treats the source data as a series of 16-bit big-endian integers. If the source range contains an odd number of bytes, a padding byte of 00h is effectively added to the end of the series for purposes of calculating the checksum. The calculated checksum is the 16-bit one’s complement of the one’s complement sum of all 16-bit integers. For example, if the bytes included in the checksum were {89h, ABh, CDh}, the checksum would begin by computing 89ABh + CD00h. A carry out of the 16th bit would occur in the example, so in 16-bit one’s complement arithmetic, it would be added back to the first bit. The resulting value of 56ACh would finally be complemented to achieve a checksum of A953h. Pointers will not be modified and no memory will be written to. The EDMACSH and EDMACSL registers will contain the calculated checksum. The host controller may write this value into a packet, compare this value with a received checksum, or use it for other purposes. Various protocols, such as TCP and IP, have a checksum field inside a range of data which the checksum covers. If such a packet is received and the host controller needs to validate the checksum, it can do the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. To calculate a checksum: 1. Program the EDMAST and EDMAND register pairs to point to the first and last bytes of buffer data to be included in the checksum. Care should be taken when programming these Pointers to prevent a never ending checksum calculation due to receive buffer wrapping. To generate an optional interrupt when the checksum calculation is done, clear EIR.DMAIF, set EIE.DMAIE and set EIE.INTIE. Start the calculation by setting ECON1.CSUMEN and ECON1.DMAST. 2. 3. Writing to the receive buffer is permitted when the write address is protected by means of the ERXRDPT Pointers. See Section 7.2 “Receiving Packets” for additional information. The IP checksum has unique mathematical properties which may be used in some cases to reduce the processing requirements further. Writing to the receive buffer may be unnecessary in some applications. When the checksum is finished being calculated, the hardware will clear the DMAST bit, set the DMAIF bit and an interrupt will be generated if enabled. The DMA TABLE 13-1: Read the checksum from the packet and save it to a temporary location Write zeros to the checksum field. Calculate a new checksum using the DMA controller. Compare the results with the saved checksum from step 1. When operating the DMA in Checksum mode, it will take one main clock cycle for every byte included in the checksum. As a result, if a checksum over 1446 bytes were performed, the DMA module would require slightly more than 57.84 μs to complete the operation. SUMMARY OF REGISTERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DMA CONTROLLER Bit 7 Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0 Reset Values on page EIE INTIE PKTIE DMAIE LINKIE TXIE r TXERIE RXERIE 13 EIR — PKTIF DMAIF LINKIF TXIF r TXERIF RXERIF 13 TXRST RXRST DMAST CSUMEN TXRTS RXEN BSEL1 BSEL0 13 Register Name ECON1 ERXNDL RX End Low Byte (ERXND<7:0>) — ERXNDH — — 13 RX End High Byte (ERXND<12:8>) 13 EDMASTL EDMASTH EDMANDL EDMANDH EDMADSTL EDMADSTH EDMACSL DMA Start Low Byte (EDMAST<7:0>) — — — DMA Start High Byte (EDMAST<12:8>) DMA End Low Byte (EDMAND<7:0>) — — — DMA End High Byte (EDMAND<12:8>) DMA Destination Low Byte (EDMADST<7:0>) — — — DMA Destination High Byte (EDMADST<12:8>) DMA Checksum Low Byte (EDMACS<7:0>) 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 EDMACSH DMA Checksum High Byte (EDMACS<15:8>) 13 Legend: — = unimplemented, read as ‘0’. Shaded cells are not used with the DMA controller. DS39662B-page 72 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 75. ENC28J60 14.0 POWER-DOWN When normal operation is desired, the host controller must perform a slightly modified procedure: The ENC28J60 may be commanded to power-down via the SPI interface. When powered down, it will no longer be able to transmit and receive any packets. 1. 2. Wake-up by clearing ECON2.PWRSV. Wait at least 300 μs for the PHY to stabilize. To accomplish the delay, the host controller may poll ESTAT.CLKRDY and wait for it to become set. Restore receive capability by setting ECON1.RXEN. To maximize power savings: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Turn off packet reception by clearing ECON1.RXEN. Wait for any in-progress packets to finish being received by polling ESTAT.RXBUSY. This bit should be clear before proceeding. Wait for any current transmissions to end by confirming ECON1.TXRTS is clear. Set ECON2.VRPS (if not already set). Enter Sleep by setting ECON2.PWRSV. All MAC, MII and PHY registers become inaccessible as a result. Setting PWRSV also clears ESTAT.CLKRDY automatically. 3. After leaving Sleep mode, there is a delay of many milliseconds before a new link is established (assuming an appropriate link partner is present). The host controller may wish to wait until the link is established before attempting to transmit any packets. The link status can be determined by polling the PHSTAT2.LSTAT bit. Alternatively, the link change interrupt may be used if it is enabled. See Section 12.1.5 “Link Change Interrupt Flag (LINKIF)” for additional details. In Sleep mode, all registers and buffer memory will maintain their states. The ETH registers and buffer memory will still be accessible by the host controller. Additionally, the clock driver will continue to operate. The CLKOUT function will be unaffected (see Section 2.3 “CLKOUT Pin”). TABLE 14-1: Name ESTAT ECON2 ECON1 SUMMARY OF REGISTERS USED WITH POWER-DOWN Bit 7 Bit 6 INT BUFER AUTOINC PKTDEC TXRST RXRST Bit 5 Bit 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0 Reset Values on page r LATECOL — RXBUSY TXABRT CLKRDY 13 PWRSV r VRPS — — — 13 DMAST CSUMEN TXRTS RXEN BSEL1 BSEL0 13 Legend: — = unimplemented, read as ‘0’, r = reserved bit. Shaded cells are not used for power-down. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 73
  • 77. ENC28J60 15.0 BUILT-IN SELF-TEST CONTROLLER The BIST controller is operated through four registers: The ENC28J60 features a Built-in Self-Test (BIST) module which is designed to confirm proper operation of each bit in the 8-Kbyte memory buffer. Although it is primarily useful for testing during manufacturing, it remains present and available for diagnostic purposes by the user. The controller writes to all locations in the buffer memory and requires several pieces of hardware shared by normal Ethernet operations. Thus, the BIST should only be used on Reset or after necessary hardware is freed. When the BIST is used, the ECON1 register’s DMAST, RXEN and TXRTS bits should all be clear. REGISTER 15-1: • EBSTCON register (control and status register) • EBSTSD register (fill seed/initial shift value) • EBSTCSH and EBSTCSL registers (high and low bytes of generated checksum) The EBSTCON register (Register 15-1) controls the module’s overall operation, selecting the testing modes and starting the self-test process. The bit pattern for memory tests is provided by the EBSTSD seed register; its content is either used directly, or as the seed for a pseudo-random number generator, depending on the Test mode. EBSTCON: ETHERNET SELF-TEST CONTROL REGISTER R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 R/W-0 PSV2 PSV1 PSV0 PSEL TMSEL1 TMSEL0 TME BISTST bit 7 bit 0 Legend: R = Readable bit W = Writable bit U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’ -n = Value at POR ‘1’ = Bit is set ‘0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown bit 7-5 PSV2:PSV0: Pattern Shift Value bits When TMSEL<1:0> = 10: The bits in EBSTSD will shift left by this amount after writing to each memory location. When TMSEL<1:0> = 00, 01 or 11: This value is ignored. bit 4 PSEL: Port Select bit 1 = DMA and BIST modules will swap ports when accessing the memory 0 = Normal configuration bit 3-2 TMSEL1:TMSEL0: Test Mode Select bits 11 = Reserved 10 = Pattern shift fill 01 = Address fill 00 = Random data fill bit 1 TME: Test Mode Enable bit 1 = Enable Test mode 0 = Disable Test mode bit 0 BISTST: Built-in Self-Test Start/Busy bit 1 = Test in progress; cleared automatically when test is done 0 = No test running © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 75
  • 78. ENC28J60 15.1 Using the BIST When the BIST controller is started, it will fill the entire buffer with the data generated for the current test configuration and it will also calculate a checksum of the data as it is written. When the BIST is complete, the EBSTCS registers will be updated with the checksum. The host controller will be able to determine if the test passed or failed by using the DMA module to calculate a checksum of all memory. The resulting checksum generated by the DMA should match the BIST checksum. If after any properly executed test, the checksums differ, a hardware fault may be suspected. The BIST controller supports 3 different operations: The ports through which the BIST and DMA modules access the dual port SRAM can be swapped for each of the four Test modes to ensure proper read/write capability from both ports. To use the BIST: 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Program the EDMAST register pair to 0000h. Program EDMAND and ERXND register pairs to 1FFFh. Configure the DMA for checksum generation by setting CSUMEN in ECON1. Write the seed/initial shift value byte to the EBSTSD register (this is not necessary if Address Fill mode is used). Enable Test mode, select the desired test, select the desired port configuration for the test. Start the BIST by setting EBSTCON.BISTST. Start the DMA checksum by setting DMAST in ECON1. The DMA controller will read the memory at the same rate the BIST controller will write to it, so the DMA can be started any time after the BIST is started. Wait for the DMA to complete by polling the DMAST bit or receiving the DMA interrupt (if enabled). Compare the EDMACS registers with the EBSTCS registers. To ensure full testing, the test should be redone with the Port Select bit, PSEL, altered. When not using Address Fill mode, additional tests may be done with different seed values to gain greater confidence that the memory is working as expected. DS39662B-page 76 The BIST module requires one main clock cycle for each byte that it writes into the RAM. The DMA module’s checksum implementation requires the same time but it can be started immediately after the BIST is started. As a result, the minimum time required to do one test pass is slightly greater than 327.68 μs. 15.2 • Random Data Fill • Address Fill • Pattern Shift Fill 1. 2. At any time during a test, the test can be canceled by clearing the BISTST, DMAST and TME bits. While the BIST is filling memory, the EBSTSD register should not be accessed, nor should any configuration changes occur. When the BIST completes its memory fill and checksum generation, the BISTST bit will automatically be cleared. Random Data Fill Mode In Random Data Fill mode, the BIST controller will write pseudo-random data into the buffer. The random data is generated by a Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) implementation. The random number generator is seeded by the initial contents of the EBSTSD register and the register will have new contents when the BIST is finished. Because of the LFSR implementation, an initial seed of zero will generate a continuous pattern of zeros. As a result, a non-zero seed value will likely perform a more extensive memory test. Selecting the same seed for two separate trials will allow a repeat of the same test. 15.3 Address Fill Mode In Address Fill mode, the BIST controller will write the low byte of each memory address into the associated buffer location. As an example, after the BIST is operated, the location 0000h should have 00h in it, location 0001h should have 01h in it, location 0E2Ah should have 2Ah in it and so on. With this fixed memory pattern, the BIST and DMA modules should always generate a checksum of F807h. The host controller may use Address Fill mode to confirm that the BIST and DMA modules themselves are both operating as intended. 15.4 Pattern Shift Fill Mode In Pattern Shift Fill mode, the BIST controller writes the value of EBSTSD into memory location 0000h. Before writing to location 0001h, it shifts the contents of EBSTSD to the left by the value specified by the PSV2:PSV0 bits in EBSTCON. Bits that leave the most significant end of EBSTSD are wrapped around to the least significant side. This shift is repeated for each new address. As a result of shifting the data, a checkerboard pattern can be written into the buffer memory to confirm that adjacent memory elements do not affect each other when accessed. Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 79. ENC28J60 TABLE 15-1: Name ECON1 ERXNDL ERXNDH EDMASTL EDMASTH EDMANDL EDMANDH SUMMARY OF REGISTERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SELF-TEST CONTROLLER Bit 7 Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0 Reset Values on page TXRST RXRST DMAST CSUMEN TXRTS RXEN BSEL1 BSEL0 13 RX End Low Byte (ERXND<7:0>) — — — RX End High Byte (ERXND<12:8>) DMA Start Low Byte (EDMAST<7:0>) — — — 13 13 13 DMA Start High Byte (EDMAST<12:8>) 13 DMA End Low Byte (EDMAND<7:0>) — — — 13 DMA End High Byte (EDMAND<12:8>) 13 EDMACSL DMA Checksum Low Byte (EDMACS<7:0>) 13 EDMACSH DMA Checksum High Byte (EDMACS<15:8>) 13 EBSTSD Built-in Self-Test Fill Seed (EBSTSD<7:0>) EBSTCON PSV2 PSV1 PSV0 PSEL 14 TMSEL1 TMSEL0 TME BISTST 14 EBSTCSL Built-in Self-Test Checksum Low Byte (EBSTCS<7:0>) 14 EBSTCSH Built-in Self-Test Checksum High Byte (EBSTCS<15:8>) 14 Legend: — = unimplemented, read as ‘0’. Shaded cells are not used. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 77
  • 81. ENC28J60 16.0 ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS Absolute Maximum Ratings Storage temperature ...............................................................................................................................-65°C to +150°C Ambient temperature under bias............................................................................................. -40°C to +85°C (Industrial) 0°C to +70°C (Commercial) Voltage on VDD, VDDOSC, VDDPLL, VDDRX, and VDDTX, with respect to VSS ................................................ -0.3V to 3.6V Voltage on RESET, CS, SCK and SI, with respect to VSS ........................................................................... -0.3V to 6.0V Voltage on CLKOUT, SO, OSC1, OSC2, LEDA and LEDB, with respect to VSS ...............................-0.3V to VDD + 0.3V Voltage on TPIN+/- and TPOUT+/- with respect to VSS ............................................................................... -0.3V to 5.0V VCAP with respect to VSS (Note 1) ............................................................................................................. -0.3V to 2.75V ESD protection on all pins.......................................................................................................................................... 2 kV Current sourced or sunk by LEDA, LEDB ...............................................................................................................12 mA Current sourced or sunk by CLKOUT .......................................................................................................................8 mA Current sourced or sunk by INT and SO...................................................................................................................4 mA Note 1: VCAP is not designed to supply an external load. No external voltage should be applied to this pin. † Notice: Stresses above those listed under “Maximum Ratings” may cause permanent damage to the device. This is a stress rating only and functional operation of the device at those or any other conditions above those indicated in the operational listings of this specification is not implied. Exposure to maximum rating conditions for extended periods may affect device reliability. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 79
  • 82. ENC28J60 16.1 DC Characteristics: ENC28J60 (Industrial and Commercial) DC CHARACTERISTICS Param. No. Sym Characteristic D001 VDD Supply Voltage D002 VPOR VDD Power-on Reset Voltage D003 SVDD VDD Rise Rate to ensure internal Power-on Reset signal VIH Standard Operating Conditions -40°C ≤ TA ≤ +85°C, 3.10V ≤ VDD ≤ 3.60V (Industrial) 0°C ≤ TA ≤ +70°C, 3.10V ≤ VDD ≤ 3.60V (Commercial) Min Typ Max Units Conditions 3.10 3.30 3.60 V — — 0.7 V See section on Power-on Reset for details 0.05 — — V/ms See section on Power-on Reset for details 2.25 — 5.5 V 0.7 VDD — VDD V Input High Voltage D004 SCK, CS, SI, RESET D005 OSC1 VIL Input Low Voltage D006 SCK, CS, SI, RESET VSS — 1.0 V D007 OSC1 VSS — 0.3 VDD V VDD – 0.7 VDD – 0.7 VDD – 0.7 — — — — — — V V V IOH = -12.0 mA (Note 1) IOH = -8.0 mA (Note 1) IOH = -4.0 mA (Note 1) — — — — — — 0.4 0.4 0.4 V V V IOL = 12.0 mA IOL = 8.0 mA IOL = 4.0 mA 74K — 173K Ω All input pins except OSC1 — — ±1 μA CS = RESET = VDD, VSS ≤ VPIN ≤ VDD, pins in high-impedance state (Note 1) OSC1 pin — — ±200 μA OSC1 = VDD (Note 1) Transmitting Ethernet packets — 160 180 mA VDD = 3.30V, FSCK = 10 MHz, SO = Open, LEDA and LEDB open, ECON2<PWRSV> = 0 Active, not transmitting Ethernet packets — 120 — mA VDD = 3.30V, LEDA and LEDB open, ECON2<PWRSV> = 0 Standby Current (Sleep mode) — 1.2 2.0 mA CS = VDD, Inputs tied to VDD or VSS, VDD = 3.3V, TA = 25°C, ECON2<PWRSV> = 1 VOH Output High Voltage LEDA, LEDB CLKOUT INT, SO VOL Output Low Voltage LEDA, LEDB CLKOUT INT, SO RPU Weak Pull-up Resistance IIL Input Leakage Current IDD IDDS Note 1: Operating Current Negative current is defined as current sourced by the pin. DS39662B-page 80 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 83. ENC28J60 TABLE 16-1: AC CHARACTERISTICS: ENC28J60 (INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL) Standard Operating Conditions -40°C ≤ TA ≤ +85°C, 3.10V ≤ VDD ≤ 3.60V (Industrial) 0°C ≤ TA ≤ +70°C, 3.10V ≤ VDD ≤ 3.60V (Commercial) AC CHARACTERISTICS TABLE 16-2: Param. No. OSCILLATOR TIMING CHARACTERISTICS Sym Characteristic Min Max Units FOSC Clock In Frequency 25 25 MHz TOSC Clock In Period 40 40 ns TDUTY Duty Cycle (external clock input) 40 60 % Δf Clock Tolerance — ±50 ppm Min Max Conditions Units TABLE 16-3: Param. No. RESET AC CHARACTERISTICS Sym Characteristic trl RESET Pin High Time (between Reset events) 2 — μs tRSTLOW RESET Pin Low Time to trigger Reset 400 — ns Min Max Units ns Conditions TABLE 16-4: Param. No. CLKOUT PIN AC CHARACTERISTICS Sym Characteristic Conditions thCLKOUT 16.5 — tlCLKOUT CLKOUT Pin Low Time 16.5 — ns TDUTY = 50% (Note 1) trCLKOUT CLKOUT Pin Rise Time — 3 ns Measured from 0.1 VDD to 0.9 VDD, Load = 10 pF (Note 1) tfCLKOUT Note 1: CLKOUT Pin High Time TDUTY = 50% (Note 1) CLKOUT Pin Fall Time — 4 ns Measured from 0.9 VDD to 0.1 VDD, Load = 10 pF (Note 1) CLKOUT prescaler is set to divide by one. TABLE 16-5: REQUIREMENTS FOR EXTERNAL MAGNETICS Parameter Min Norm Max Units RX Transformer Turns Ratio — 1:1 — — TX Transformer Turns Ratio — 1:1 — — Insertion Loss 0.0 0.6 1.1 dB Primary Inductance 350 — — μH Transformer Isolation — 1.5 — kV Differential to Common Mode Rejection 40 — — dB Return Loss -16 — — Conditions dB © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary Transformer Center Tap = 3.3V 8 mA bias 0.1 to 10 MHz DS39662B-page 81
  • 84. ENC28J60 FIGURE 16-1: SPI INPUT TIMING TCSS TCSH TCSD CS SCK TSU THD MSb In SI LSb In 1/FSCK SO High-Impedance FIGURE 16-2: SPI OUTPUT TIMING CS SCK TV SO TDIS TV MSb Out LSb Out 1/FSCK SI LSb In Don’t Care TABLE 16-6: Param. No. Sym SPI INTERFACE AC CHARACTERISTICS Characteristic FSCK 1 Clock Frequency TCSS CS Setup Time Min Max Units DC 20 Conditions MHz 50 — ns 10 — ns ETH registers and memory buffer 210 — ns MAC and MII registers 2 TCSH CS Hold Time 3 TCSD CS Disable Time 50 — ns 4 TSU Data Setup Time 10 — ns 5 THD Data Hold Time 10 — ns 6 TV Output Valid from Clock Low — 10 ns SO Load = 30 pF 7 TDIS Output Disable Time — 10 ns SO Load = 30 pF DS39662B-page 82 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 85. ENC28J60 17.0 PACKAGING INFORMATION 17.1 Package Marking Information 28-Lead SPDIP Example ENC28J60-I/SP e3 0610017 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYWWNNN 28-Lead SOIC Example ENC28J60-I/SO e3 0610017 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYWWNNN 28-Lead SSOP Example XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX YYWWNNN 28-Lead QFN ENC28J60 -C/SS e3 0610017 Example XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX YYWWNNN ENC28J60 -I/ML e3 0610017 Legend: XX...X Y YY WW NNN e3 * Note: Customer-specific information Year code (last digit of calendar year) Year code (last 2 digits of calendar year) Week code (week of January 1 is week ‘01’) Alphanumeric traceability code Pb-free JEDEC designator for Matte Tin (Sn) This package is Pb-free. The Pb-free JEDEC designator ( e3 ) can be found on the outer packaging for this package. In the event the full Microchip part number cannot be marked on one line, it will be carried over to the next line, thus limiting the number of available characters for customer-specific information. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 83
  • 86. ENC28J60 17.2 Package Details The following sections give the technical details of the packages. 28-Lead Skinny Plastic Dual In-line (SP) – 300 mil Body (PDIP) E1 D 2 n 1 α E A2 A L c β B1 A1 eB Units Number of Pins Pitch p B Dimension Limits n p INCHES* MIN NOM MILLIMETERS MAX MIN NOM 28 MAX 28 .100 2.54 Top to Seating Plane A .140 .150 .160 3.56 3.81 4.06 Molded Package Thickness A2 .125 .130 .135 3.18 3.30 3.43 Base to Seating Plane A1 .015 8.26 0.38 Shoulder to Shoulder Width E .300 .310 .325 7.62 7.87 Molded Package Width E1 .275 .285 .295 6.99 7.24 7.49 Overall Length D 1.345 1.365 1.385 34.16 34.67 35.18 Tip to Seating Plane L c .125 .130 .135 3.18 3.30 3.43 .008 .012 .015 0.20 0.29 0.38 B1 .040 .053 .065 1.02 1.33 1.65 Lead Thickness Upper Lead Width Lower Lead Width Overall Row Spacing Mold Draft Angle Top B § .016 .019 .022 0.41 0.48 0.56 eB α .320 .350 .430 8.13 8.89 10.92 5 10 15 5 10 15 β Mold Draft Angle Bottom 5 10 15 5 10 15 * Controlling Parameter § Significant Characteristic Notes: Dimension D and E1 do not include mold flash or protrusions. Mold flash or protrusions shall not exceed .010” (0.254mm) per side. JEDEC Equivalent: MO-095 Drawing No. C04-070 DS39662B-page 84 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 87. ENC28J60 28-Lead Plastic Small Outline (SO) – Wide, 300 mil Body (SOIC) E E1 p D B 2 1 n h α 45° c A2 A φ β L Units Dimension Limits n p A1 INCHES* NOM 28 .050 .099 .091 .008 .407 .295 .704 .020 .033 4 .011 .017 12 12 Preliminary MAX MILLIMETERS NOM 28 1.27 2.36 2.50 2.24 2.31 0.10 0.20 10.01 10.34 7.32 7.49 17.65 17.87 0.25 0.50 0.41 0.84 0 4 0.23 0.28 0.36 0.42 0 12 0 12 MAX Number of Pins Pitch Overall Height A .093 .104 2.64 Molded Package Thickness A2 .088 .094 2.39 Standoff § A1 .004 .012 0.30 Overall Width E .394 .420 10.67 Molded Package Width E1 .288 .299 7.59 Overall Length D .695 .712 18.08 Chamfer Distance h .010 .029 0.74 Foot Length L .016 .050 1.27 φ Foot Angle Top 0 8 8 c Lead Thickness .009 .013 0.33 Lead Width B .014 .020 0.51 α Mold Draft Angle Top 0 15 15 β Mold Draft Angle Bottom 0 15 15 * Controlling Parameter § Significant Characteristic Notes: Dimensions D and E1 do not include mold flash or protrusions. Mold flash or protrusions shall not exceed .010” (0.254mm) per side. JEDEC Equivalent: MS-013 Drawing No. C04-052 © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. MIN MIN DS39662B-page 85
  • 88. ENC28J60 28-Lead Plastic Shrink Small Outline (SS) – 209 mil Body, 5.30 mm (SSOP) E E1 p D B 2 1 n A c φ A2 A1 L Units Number of Pins Dimension Limits n p Pitch Overall Height Molded Package Thickness Standoff Overall Width Molded Package Width Overall Length Foot Length Lead Thickness Foot Angle Lead Width A A2 A1 E E1 D L c φ B INCHES MIN .065 .002 .295 .197 .390 .022 .004 0° .009 NOM 28 .026 .069 .307 .209 .402 .030 4° - MILLIMETERS * MAX .079 .073 .323 .220 .413 .037 .010 8° .015 MIN 1.65 0.05 7.49 5.00 9.90 0.55 0.09 0° 0.22 NOM 28 0.65 1.75 7.80 5.30 10.20 0.75 4° - MAX 2.0 1.85 8.20 5.60 10.50 0.95 0.25 8° 0.38 * Controlling Parameter Notes: Dimensions D and E1 do not include mold flash or protrusions. Mold flash or protrusions shall not exceed .010" (0.254mm) per side. Drawing No. C04-073 DS39662B-page 86 Revised 1-12-06 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 89. ENC28J60 28-Lead Plastic Quad Flat No Lead Package (ML) 6x6 mm Body (QFN) – With 0.55 mm Contact Length (Saw Singulated) E2 E EXPOSED METAL PAD (NOTE 2) e D b D2 2 1 K n OPTIONAL INDEX TOP VIEW AREA SEE DETAIL ALTERNATE INDEX INDICATORS L BOTTOM VIEW (NOTE 1) A1 A Units Dimension Limits MILLIMETERS* INCHES MIN Number of Pins DETAIL ALTERNATE PAD OUTLINE MAX NOM n MIN NOM 28 MAX 28 Pitch e Overall Height A .031 .035 .039 0.80 0.90 1.00 Standoff A1 .000 .001 .002 0.00 0.02 0.05 Contact Thickness A3 0.65 BSC .026 BSC 0.20 REF .008 REF E Exposed Pad Length .240 5.90 6.00 6.10 .167 .169 3.89 4.24 4.29 .232 .236 .240 5.90 6.00 6.10 D2 Overall Length .236 .153 D Exposed Pad Width .232 E2 Overall Width .153 .167 .169 3.89 4.24 4.29 Contact Width β .009 .011 .013 0.23 0.28 0.33 Contact Length § L .018 .022 .024 0.45 0.55 0.65 K .008 – – 0.20 – – Contact-to-Exposed Pad § * Controlling Parameter § Significant Characteristic Notes: 1. Pin 1 visual index feature may vary, but must be located within the hatched area. 2. Exposed pad varies according to die attach paddle size. BSC: Basic Dimension. Theoretically exact value shown without tolerances. See ASME Y14.5M REF: Reference Dimension, usually without tolerance, for information purposes only. See ASME Y14.5M JEDEC equivalent: MO-220 Drawing No. C04-105 © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary Revised 09-12-05 DS39662B-page 87
  • 91. ENC28J60 INDEX B Block Diagrams Crystal Oscillator Operation .......................................... 5 ENC28J60 Architecture ................................................ 3 Ethernet Buffer Organization ...................................... 18 External Clock Source .................................................. 5 External Connections.................................................... 7 I/O Level Shifting 3-State Buffers ...................................................... 8 AND Gate ............................................................. 8 Interrupt Logic ............................................................. 63 LEDB Polarity Configuration ......................................... 8 Memory Organization.................................................. 11 On-Chip Reset Circuit ................................................. 59 Typical Interface............................................................ 4 Broadcast Filter ................................................................... 52 Built-in Self-Test Controller ................................................. 75 Address Fill Mode ....................................................... 76 Associated Registers .................................................. 77 EBSTCS registers....................................................... 76 EBSTSD Register ....................................................... 76 Pattern Shift Fill Mode................................................. 76 Random Data Fill Mode .............................................. 76 Use.............................................................................. 76 C Checksum Calculations ...................................................... 72 CLKOUT Pin ......................................................................... 6 Control Register Map .......................................................... 12 Control Register Summary............................................ 13–14 Control Registers ................................................................ 12 Customer Change Notification Service ............................... 91 Customer Notification Service............................................. 91 Customer Support ............................................................... 91 D DMA Controller ................................................................... 71 Access to Buffers ........................................................ 17 Associated Registers .................................................. 72 Checksum Calculations .............................................. 72 Copying Memory......................................................... 71 Duplex-Mode Configuration and Negotiation .................................... 53 F Filtering Using AND Logic ........................................................ 50 Using OR Logic .......................................................... 49 Flow Control........................................................................ 55 Associated Registers.................................................. 57 Full-Duplex Mode ....................................................... 55 Half-Duplex Mode....................................................... 55 Sample Full-Duplex Network (Diagram) ..................... 55 Full-Duplex-Mode Operation.................................................................... 53 H Half-Duplex-Mode Operation.................................................................... 53 Hash Table Filter ................................................................ 52 I I/O Level Shifting .................................................................. 8 Using 3-State Buffers ................................................... 8 Using AND Gates ......................................................... 8 Initialization ......................................................................... 33 MAC Settings.............................................................. 34 PHY Settings .............................................................. 37 Receive Buffer ............................................................ 33 Receive Filters............................................................ 33 Transmit Buffer ........................................................... 33 Waiting for OST .......................................................... 33 Interrupts ............................................................................ 63 DMA Flag (DMAIF) ..................................................... 69 INT Enable (INTIE) ..................................................... 64 Link Change Flag (LINKIF)......................................... 69 Receive Error Flag (RXERIF) ..................................... 68 Receive Packet Pending Flag (PKTIF) ....................... 69 Transmit Error Flag (TXERIF) .................................... 68 Transmit Interrupt Flag (TXIF) .................................... 68 L LED Configuration ................................................................ 8 LEDB Polarity and Reset Configuration................................ 8 M E Electrical Characteristics..................................................... 79 Absolute Maximum Ratings ........................................ 79 AC Characteristics ...................................................... 81 CLKOUT Pin AC ......................................................... 81 DC Characteristics ...................................................... 80 Oscillator Timing ......................................................... 81 Requirements for External Magnetics......................... 81 Reset AC..................................................................... 81 SPI Interface AC ......................................................... 82 ENC28J60 Block Diagram .................................................... 3 EREVID Register ................................................................ 22 Errata .................................................................................... 2 Ethernet Buffer .................................................................... 17 Organization (Diagram)............................................... 18 Ethernet Module Transmitting and Receiving Data Receive Packet Layout ....................................... 43 Transmit Packet Layout ...................................... 40 © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Ethernet Overview .............................................................. 31 External Connections (Diagram)........................................... 7 Magic Packet Filter ............................................................. 52 Magnetics and External Components................................... 7 Memory Organization ......................................................... 11 Multicast Filter..................................................................... 52 O Oscillator............................................................................... 5 CLKOUT Transition ...................................................... 6 Crystal Oscillator .......................................................... 5 External Clock Source .................................................. 5 Start-up Timer............................................................... 5 P Packaging Information ........................................................ 83 Details......................................................................... 84 Marking....................................................................... 83 Preliminary DS39662B-page 89
  • 92. ENC28J60 Packet Format..................................................................... 31 CRC Field ................................................................... 32 Data Field.................................................................... 32 Destination Address .................................................... 32 Padding Field .............................................................. 32 Preamble/Start-of-Frame Delimiter ............................. 31 Source Address .......................................................... 32 Type/Length Field ....................................................... 32 Pattern Match Filter............................................................. 51 Per Packet Control Byte Format ......................................... 39 PHID Registers ................................................................... 22 PHSTAT Registers.............................................................. 22 PHY Register Summary ...................................................... 20 PHY Registers..................................................................... 19 Reading....................................................................... 19 Scanning ..................................................................... 19 Writing ......................................................................... 19 Pinout Diagrams.................................................................... 1 Pinout I/O Descriptions ......................................................... 4 Power-Down........................................................................ 73 Associated Registers .................................................. 73 Power-on Reset (POR) ....................................................... 60 R Read Control Register (RCR) ............................................. 27 Reader Response ............................................................... 92 Reading and Writing to the Buffer ....................................... 17 Receive Buffer..................................................................... 17 Receive Filters .................................................................... 47 Broadcast .................................................................... 52 Hash Table.................................................................. 52 Magic Packet .............................................................. 52 Magic Packet Format .................................................. 52 Multicast ...................................................................... 52 Pattern Match.............................................................. 51 Pattern Match Filter Format ........................................ 51 Unicast ........................................................................ 51 Using AND Logic......................................................... 50 Using OR Logic ........................................................... 49 Receive Only Reset ............................................................ 60 Receiving Packets............................................................... 43 Associated Registers .................................................. 46 Calculating Buffer Free Space .................................... 45 Calculating Free Receive Buffer Space ...................... 45 Calculating Random Access Address ......................... 44 Freeing Buffer Space .................................................. 45 Reading....................................................................... 44 Status Vectors............................................................. 44 Registers EBSTCON (Ethernet Self-Test Control)...................... 75 ECOCON (Clock Output Control) ................................. 6 ECON1 (Ethernet Control 1) ....................................... 15 ECON2 (Ethernet Control 2) ....................................... 16 EFLOCON (Ethernet Flow Control) ............................ 56 EIE (Ethernet Interrupt Enable)................................... 65 EIR (Ethernet Interrupt Request, Flag) ....................... 66 ERXFCON (Ethernet Receive Filter Control) .............. 48 ESTAT (Ethernet Status) ............................................ 64 MABBIPG (MAC Back-to-Back Inter-Packet Gap)................................................ 36 MACON1 (MAC Control 1).......................................... 34 MACON3 (MAC Control 3).......................................... 35 MACON4 (MAC Control 4).......................................... 36 MICMD (MII Command) .............................................. 21 MISTAT (MII Status) ................................................... 21 PHCON1 (PHY Control 1)........................................... 61 DS39662B-page 90 PHCON2 (PHY Control 2) .......................................... 37 PHID (PHY Device ID)................................................ 22 PHIE (PHY Interrupt Enable) ...................................... 67 PHIR (PHY Interrupt Request, Flag)........................... 67 PHLCON (PHY Module LED Control)........................... 9 PHSTAT1 (Physical Layer Status 1)........................... 23 PHSTAT2 (Physical Layer Status 2)........................... 24 Reset .................................................................................. 59 MAC and PHY Subsystem Resets ............................. 61 Power-on Reset .......................................................... 60 Receive Only Reset .................................................... 60 System Reset ............................................................. 60 Transmit Only Reset ................................................... 60 S Serial Peripheral Interface. See SPI. SPI Bit Field Clear Command............................................ 29 Bit Field Set Command............................................... 29 Instruction Set............................................................. 26 Overview..................................................................... 25 Read Buffer Memory Command ................................. 28 Read Control Register Command............................... 27 System Reset Command............................................ 30 Write Buffer Memory Command ................................. 29 Write Control Register Command............................... 28 System Reset ..................................................................... 60 T Termination Requirement ..................................................... 7 Timing Diagrams CLKOUT Transition ...................................................... 6 Read Control Register Command (ETH) .................... 27 Read Control Register Command (MAC/MII) ............. 27 SPI Input ..................................................................... 82 SPI Input Timing ......................................................... 25 SPI Output .................................................................. 82 SPI Output Timing ...................................................... 25 System Reset Command Sequence........................... 30 Write Buffer Memory Command Sequence ................ 29 Write Control Register Command Sequence.............. 28 Transmit Buffer ................................................................... 17 Transmit Only Reset ........................................................... 60 Transmitting Packets .......................................................... 39 Associated Registers .................................................. 42 Status Vectors ............................................................ 41 Typical ENC28J60-Based Interface...................................... 4 U Unicast Filter....................................................................... 51 W WWW, On-Line Support ....................................................... 2 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 93. ENC28J60 THE MICROCHIP WEB SITE CUSTOMER SUPPORT Microchip provides online support via our WWW site at www.microchip.com. This web site is used as a means to make files and information easily available to customers. Accessible by using your favorite Internet browser, the web site contains the following information: Users of Microchip products can receive assistance through several channels: • Product Support – Data sheets and errata, application notes and sample programs, design resources, user’s guides and hardware support documents, latest software releases and archived software • General Technical Support – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), technical support requests, online discussion groups, Microchip consultant program member listing • Business of Microchip – Product selector and ordering guides, latest Microchip press releases, listing of seminars and events, listings of Microchip sales offices, distributors and factory representatives • • • • • Distributor or Representative Local Sales Office Field Application Engineer (FAE) Technical Support Development Systems Information Line Customers should contact their distributor, representative or field application engineer (FAE) for support. Local sales offices are also available to help customers. A listing of sales offices and locations is included in the back of this document. Technical support is available through the web site at: http://support.microchip.com CUSTOMER CHANGE NOTIFICATION SERVICE Microchip’s customer notification service helps keep customers current on Microchip products. Subscribers will receive e-mail notification whenever there are changes, updates, revisions or errata related to a specified product family or development tool of interest. To register, access the Microchip web site at www.microchip.com, click on Customer Change Notification and follow the registration instructions. © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 91
  • 94. ENC28J60 READER RESPONSE It is our intention to provide you with the best documentation possible to ensure successful use of your Microchip product. If you wish to provide your comments on organization, clarity, subject matter, and ways in which our documentation can better serve you, please FAX your comments to the Technical Publications Manager at (480) 792-4150. Please list the following information, and use this outline to provide us with your comments about this document. To: Technical Publications Manager RE: Reader Response Total Pages Sent ________ From: Name Company Address City / State / ZIP / Country Telephone: (_______) _________ - _________ FAX: (______) _________ - _________ Application (optional): Would you like a reply? Device: ENC28J60 Y N Literature Number: DS39662B Questions: 1. What are the best features of this document? 2. How does this document meet your hardware and software development needs? 3. Do you find the organization of this document easy to follow? If not, why? 4. What additions to the document do you think would enhance the structure and subject? 5. What deletions from the document could be made without affecting the overall usefulness? 6. Is there any incorrect or misleading information (what and where)? 7. How would you improve this document? DS39662B-page 92 Preliminary © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
  • 95. ENC28J60 PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM To order or obtain information, e.g., on pricing or delivery, refer to the factory or the listed sales office. PART NO. -X Device Temperature Range Examples: /XX Package Device a) b) ENC28J60: Ethernet Controller w/SPI Interface ENC28J60T: Ethernet Controller w/SPI Interface (Tape and Reel) c) d) e) Temperature Range I = -40°C to +85°C (Industrial) (SPDIP, SOIC and QFN packages only) C = 0°C to +70°C (Commercial) (SSOP packages only) Package SP SO SS ML = = = = f) ENC28J60-I/SP: Industrial temperature, SPDIP package. ENC28J60-I/SO: Industrial temperature, SOIC package. ENC28J60T-I/SO: Tape and Reel, Industrial temperature, SOIC package. ENC28J60-C/SS: Commercial temperature, SSOP package. ENC28J60T-C/SS: Tape and Reel, Comercial temperature, SSOP package. ENC28J60-I/ML: Industrial temperature, QFN package. SPDIP (Skinny Plastic DIP) SOIC (Plastic Small Outline) SSOP (Plastic Shrink Small Outline) QFN (Quad Flat No Lead) © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc. Preliminary DS39662B-page 93
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