
84C300A 4-Port
Fast Ethernet Controller
4-53
MD400152/E
Revision History
2/6/97
2/6/97 - Document revision changed to MD400152/D.
Page 2, 5.0 AC Characteristics has been changed to 5.0 Command/Status Interface Timing.
Page 14, Section, 3.2.2 Transmission Initiation/Deferral has been changed to 3.2.2 Transmission Initiation in Full Duplex
and CSMA/CD Networks, and this section has been replaced with new copy.
Page 18, Pagination changed has occurred from pages 18 to 22.
Page 18, Conditions that Cause the RXDC Pin to go HIGH
- First sentence copy change ...in the section “Description of How Receive Packets are Discarded”... has been
changed to ...in the section “Receive Discard Conditions”.
Page 19, 3.5.1 Little Endian and Big Endian Format.
- First sentence copy change...BUSMODE bit 6 in configuration... has been changed to ...BUSMODE bit 7 in
configuration...
Page 20, 3.5.2 Transmit FIFO Interface.
- Paragraph 4 last sentence copy change ...one more write after... has been changed to ...one more internal
FIFO write after...
Page 21. 3.6 Register Interface
- Paragraph 1, first sentence copy change ...and A[2:0] signals... has been changed to ...and A[3:0] signals...
Page 26, Section Receive Without Discard Mode, Bit 4 has been added.
Page 27, Section Disable Loopback Mode, new text has been added.
Page 27, Configuration Register #1
- Bit 3, 0 (Default), Bit 5, 0 (Default) Loopback Mode, and Function Description, have been added.
- Note has been added to Configuration Register #1.
Page 27, Half Duplex Mode Section has been deleted.
Page 27, Full Duplex Mode Section has been deleted.
Page 28, Full Duplex Mode
- ...Please refer to the previous table for more details... has been added.
Page 31, 4.0 DC Characteristics
- V
CH
(Min) has changed from 4.0 to 2.0.
- V
CH
(Max) has changed from 6 to Vcc +0.5.
- V
CL
(Min) is now –0.5.
- V
IL
(Min.) is now –0.5.
- V
IH1
(Max) has changed from 6 to Vcc +0.5
Page 38, 8.0 Receive Data Interface Timing
- t
17
(Max) has changed from 180 ns to 125 ns.
Page 41, 9.0 Transmit Data Interface Timing on Exception Conditions
- t
2
(Min) has changed from 9.5 ns to 7 ns.
- t
2
(Max) has changed from 38 ns to 25 ns.
- t
3
(Max) has changed from 28 ns to 30 ns.
- t
13
(Min) all references to 9.5 ns have changed to 7 ns.
- t
13
(Max) all references to 38 ns have been changed to 25 ns.
- t
16
(Min) has changed from 9.5 ns to 7 ns.
- t
16
(Max) has changed from 38 ns to 25 ns.