KS8999 Micrel Inc, KS8999 Datasheet - Page 25

• Manufacturer Part Number: KS8999
• Description: IC SWITCH 10/100 9PORT 208PQFP
• Manufacturer: Micrel Inc

Specifications of KS8999

• Applications: *
• Mounting Type: Surface Mount
• Package / Case: 208-MQFP, 208-PQFP
• Fiber Support: Yes
• Integrated Led Drivers: Yes
• Phy/transceiver Interface: MII/SNI
• Power Supply Type: Analog/Digital
• Package Type: PQFP
• Data Rate (typ): 10/100Mbps
• Vlan Support: Yes
• Operating Temperature (max): 70C
• Operating Temperature (min): 0C
• Mounting: Surface Mount
• Jtag Support: No
• Operating Temperature Classification: Commercial
• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Contains lead / RoHS non-compliant
• For Use With: 576-1023 - BOARD EVAL EXPERIMENT FOR KS8999
• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Not Compliant, Contains lead / RoHS non-compliant

January 2005
Micrel, Inc.
SNI Interface (7-wire) Operation
The SNI (Serial Network Interface) is compatible with some controllers used for network layer protocol processing.
KS8999 acts like a PHY device to external controllers. This interface can be directly connected to these types of
devices. The signals are divided into two groups, one being for transmission and the other being the receive side.
The signals involved are described in the table below.
This interface is a bit wide data interface and therefore runs at the network bit rate (not encoded). An additional
signal on the transmit side indicates when data is valid. Likewise, the receive side has an indicator that conveys
when the data is valid.
For half-duplex operation there is a signal that indicates a collision has occurred during transmission.
Programmable Features
Priority Schemes
The KS8999 can determine priority through three different means at the ingress point. The first method is a simple
per port method, the second is via the 802.1p frame tag and the third is by viewing the DSCP (TOS) field in the IPv4
header. Of course for the priority to be effective, the high and low priority queues must be enabled on the destination
port or egress point.
Per Port Method
General priority can be specified on a per port basis. In this type of priority all traffic from the specified input port is
considered high priority in the destination queue. This can be useful in IP phone applications mixed with other data
types of traffic where the IP phone connects to a specific port. The IP phone traffic would be high priority (outbound)
to the wide area network. The inbound traffic to the IP phone is all of the same priority to the IP phone.
802.1p Method
This method works well when used with ports that have mixed data and media flows. The inbound port examines the
priority field in the tag and determines the high or low priority. Priority profiles are setup in the Priority Classification
Control in the EEPROM.
IPv4 DSCP Method
This is another per frame way of determining outbound priority. The DSCP (Differentiated Services Code Point –
RFC#2474) method uses the TOS field in the IP header to determine high and low priority on a per code point basis.
Each fully decoded code point can have either a high or low priority. A larger spectrum of priority flows can be
defined with this larger code space.
More specific to implementation, the most significant 6 bits of the TOS field are fully decoded into 64 possibilities,
and the singular code that results is compared against the corresponding bit in the DSCP register. If the register bit is
a 1, the priority is high and if 0, the priority is low.
Other Priority Considerations
When setting up the priority scheme, one should consider other available controls to regulate the traffic. One of these
SNI Signal
TXEN
CRS
RXD
RXC
TXD
TXC
COL
Description
Transmit enable
Serial transmit data
Transmit clock
Collision detection
Carrier sense
Serial receive data
Receive clock
Table 2. SNI Signals
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KS8999 SNI Signal
MRXD[0]
MTXD[0]
MRXDV
MTXEN
MTXC
MCOL
MRXC
KS8999 Input/Output
Output
Output
Output
Output
Output
Input
Input
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