6.2 Embedded Characteristics

  • Compatible with IEEE Standard 802.3
  • 10 Mbps half duplex operation
  • Statistics Counter Registers
  • Internal MII interface to the integrated physical layer
  • Interrupt generation to signal errors or other events
  • Automatic pad and cyclic redundancy check (CRC) generation on transmitted frames
  • Automatic discard of frames received with errors
  • Address checking logic for four specific 48-bit addresses, four type IDs, promiscuous mode, hash matching of unicast and multicast destination addresses
  • Support for 802.1Q VLAN tagging with recognition of incoming VLAN and priority tagged frames
  • Time stamp unit (TSU)