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MII Management Interface, turnaround bits

Hi

I'm implementing software GPIO based SMI protocol for a small embedded microcontroller, and got stuck with turnaround bits. As I understand it, after reading 802.3 spec, it consists of two bits, and only the first bit depends on operation - read or write. For write it's always '1', but I can't understand how it is asserted for reading.

And seconf half of my question: I use two gpio pins, one for MDC and the other for MDIO. To set turnaround bits, do I have to drive only MDIO? As far as I understand the standard, MDC is not affected, isn't it ?

Thanks.

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Mark
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for reading as soon as you have sent the register address bits, you set the MDIO pin to high impedance i.e. z .

yes, MDC is not affected by whatever you do with MDIO since MDC is only a clock signal. MDIO runs in sync with MDC .

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I found a reference code implementing software MII managament for LPC1700, the way they implement turnaround functions is like this:

static void turnaround_MDIO(void) { GPIO2->FIODIR &= ~MDIO; GPIO2->FIOSET = MDC; delay(); GPIO2->FIOCLR = MDC; delay(); }

Why do they toggle direction of MDIO line?

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Mark
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As salimbaba said: to turn the Hi-Z on and off.

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