Programmer’s Guide BCM5722
10/15/07
Broadcom Corporation
Document 5722-PG101-R Transceiver Registers (BCM5906/BCM5906M) Page 492
Auto-negotiation Link Partner (LP) Next Page Transmit Register
Next Page
Indicates whether this is the last Next Page.
Message Page
Differentiates a message page from an unformatted page.
Acknowledge 2
Indicates that the link partner has the ability to comply with the message.
Toggle
Used by the arbitration function to ensure synchronization with the link partner during Next Page exchange.
Message Code Field
An 11-bit-wide field, encoding 2048 possible messages.
Unformatted Code Field
An 11-bit-wide field that may contain an arbitrary value.
Table 545: Next Page Transmit Register (Address 08d, 08h)
Bit Name R/W Description Default
15 Next Page R/W 1 = Additional next page(s) follows 0 = Last page 0
14 Reserved - - 0
13 Message Page R/W 1 = Message page 0 = Unformatted page 1
12 Acknowledge 2 R/W 1 = Will comply with message 0 = Cannot comply with message 0
11 Toggle RO 1 = Previous value of the transmitted link code word equaled logic 0
0 = Previous value of the transmitted link code word equaled logic 1
0
10:0 Message/
Unformatted Code
Field
R/W - 1
R/W = Read/Write, RO = Read only, SC = Self Clear, LL = Latched Low, LH = Latched High, LL and LH Clear after read
operation. Use default values of reserved bit(s) when writing to reserved bit(s).