ethernet - DP83847 PROBLEM

Hello Everyone, I have few questions regarding the DP83847 PHY. I have this PHY on xilinx virtex fpga board. I need to write an ethernet mac in the fpga to send the packets to the PC through the PHY. Initially, to start with i am implementing the transmit module. 1) when i hardware reset the PHY, the link estabilishes between the PC and the fpga board, but whatever data i put on the MII interface on the TXD(3:0), i am not able to see anything when i check the pin TD+- in the oscilloscope. For some reason the PHY is not transmitting the data. a) Do i need to initialize the PHY before/after i hardware reset it. If yes how? b) By default , if i hardware reset, the PHY will act in 100 mbps full duplex mode. So i guess , just to test this PHY, i dont have to use MDC and MDIO right? c)Do i need to exactly send the ethernet packet format to the PHY inorder to test it correctly with the oscilloscope or will i be able to see any data if i check it in the oscilloscope? d) will i see a sinusoid on the TD+ pin when i check it in the oscilloscope or is it a square wave.

I would appreciate , if you could please answer my questions as soon as possible.

thanks ashwin

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ashwin
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Possibly. Any initialization you would do would be accomplished by setting/clearing bits in the MII registers. You access these registers though the MDC and MDIO pins (the MIIM interface).

That depends. What do you have the PHYADDR0, ..., PHYADDR4 pins connected to? They better not be all connected such that the address 0x0 is strapped into the PHYADDR bits of the PHYCTRL register. Quickly scanning through the data sheet, I do not see any explicit need to write to any registers if your pins are connected properly, although I might have missed something.

The PHY has no idea what a proper Ethernet packet looks like, nor does it care.

Are you talking about the TD pins themselves, or the TX+/TX- pins on the cable side of the transmit transformer? I'd recommend measuring the cable side of the transmit transformer. This way, anything you do see will be directly comparable to other people's measurements, and you will get consistent results. I believe the transformers are driven by current, not voltage, so measuring the TD pins themselves might varry, depending on what kind of transformer you have, what load is attached to the transformer, etc.

At 100Mbps, I don't think you'll see either a sinusoid or a square wave (on the cable side of the transformer). I think you'll see trapezoids. If I recall correctly, I think you'll see a slew rate limited rise/fall, followed by a steady voltage for a while, and then another slew rate limited fall/rise.

At 10Mbps, you would see sinusoid-like signals, depending on the bit pattern being transmitted.

Even if your FPGA isn't attached to the PHY (TX_CLK is running, but TX_EN is always deasserted), I think you should see these trapezoids comming out of the 100Mbps PHY. This constant idle transmission is used to detect a link partner, and when connected, maintain RX clock synchronization. Attach your oscilloscope to your PC's Ethernet card (by tapping into a cable or the pins on the RJ45 connector) to get an idea what these look like. If your pins are silent, you probably have some hardware configuration or PHY initialization problem. This would not imply an FPGA code problem.

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Howard Henry Schlunder

Have you looked at the datasheet?

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I have never used the MII interface but I think that you need to do some kind of handshaking with the PHY chip before you can transmit data.

Rune Christensen Engineer

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Rune Christensen

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