Datasheet

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6120F–ATARM–03-Oct-06
AT91SAM7X512/256/128 Preliminary
10.6 Ethernet MAC
• DMA Master on Receive and Transmit Channels
• Compatible with IEEE Standard 802.3
• 10 and 100 Mbit/s operation
• Full- and half-duplex operation
• Statistics Counter Registers
• MII/RMII interface to the physical layer
• Interrupt generation to signal receive and transmit completion
• 28-byte transmit FIFO and 28-byte receive FIFO
• Automatic pad and CRC generation on transmitted frames
• Automatic discard of frames received with errors
• Address checking logic supports up to four specific 48-bit addresses
• Support Promiscuous Mode where all valid received frames are copied to memory
• Hash matching of unicast and multicast destination addresses
• Physical layer management through MDIO interface
• Half-duplex flow control by forcing collisions on incoming frames
• Full-duplex flow control with recognition of incoming pause frames
• Support for 802.1Q VLAN tagging with recognition of incoming VLAN and priority tagged
frames
• Multiple buffers per receive and transmit frame
• Jumbo frames up to 10240 bytes supported
10.7 Serial Peripheral Interface
• Supports communication with external serial devices
– Four chip selects with external decoder allow communication with up to 15
peripherals
– Serial memories, such as DataFlash
®
and 3-wire EEPROMs
– Serial peripherals, such as ADCs, DACs, LCD Controllers, CAN Controllers and
Sensors
– External co-processors
• Master or slave serial peripheral bus interface
– 8- to 16-bit programmable data length per chip select
– Programmable phase and polarity per chip select
– Programmable transfer delays per chip select, between consecutive transfers and
between clock and data
– Programmable delay between consecutive transfers
– Selectable mode fault detection
– Maximum frequency at up to Master Clock
10.8 Two-wire Interface
• Master Mode only
• Compatibility with standard two-wire serial memories