Ethernet (ETH): media access control (MAC) with DMA controller RM0008
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Broadcast address filter
The MAC does not filter any broadcast frames in the default mode. However, if the MAC is
programmed to reject all broadcast frames by setting the BFD bit in the Frame filter register,
any broadcast frames are dropped.
Unicast source address filter
The MAC can also perform perfect filtering based on the source address field of the received
frames. By default, the MAC compares the SA field with the values programmed in the SA
registers. The MAC address registers [1:3] can be configured to contain SA instead of DA
for comparison, by setting bit 30 in the corresponding register. Group filtering with SA is also
supported. The frames that fail the SA filter are dropped by the MAC if the SAF bit in the
Frame filter register is set. Otherwise, the result of the SA filter is given as a status bit in the
Receive Status word (see RDES0: Receive descriptor Word0).
When the SAF bit is set, the result of the SA and DA filters is AND’ed to decide whether the
frame needs to be forwarded. This means that either of the filter fail result will drop the
frame. Both filters have to pass the frame for the frame to be forwarded to the application.
Inverse filtering operation
For both destination and source address filtering, there is an option to invert the filter-match
result at the final output. These are controlled by the DAIF and SAIF bits in the Frame filter
register, respectively. The DAIF bit is applicable for both Unicast and Multicast DA frames.
The result of the unicast/multicast destination address filter is inverted in this mode.
Similarly, when the SAIF bit is set, the result of the unicast SA filter is inverted. Ta ble 2 1 1
and Ta ble 2 1 2 summarize destination and source address filtering based on the type of
frame received.
Table 211. Destination address filtering table
Frame
type
PM HPF HU DAIF HM PAM DB DA filter operation
Broadcast
1XXX X XXPass
0XXX X X0Pass
0XXX X X1Fail
Unicast
1 X X X X X X Pass all frames
0 X 0 0 X X X Pass on perfect/group filter match
0 X 0 1 X X X Fail on perfect/Group filter match
0 0 1 0 X X X Pass on hash filter match
0 0 1 1 X X X Fail on hash filter match
011 0 X XX
Pass on hash or perfect/Group filter
match
0 1 1 1 X X X Fail on hash or perfect/Group filter match
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