IPAC-X
PSB/PSF 21150
Description of Functional Blocks
Data Sheet 119 2003-01-30
Before starting a transmission, the microprocessor should verify that the transmitter is
inactive, i.e. that a possible previous transmission has been terminated. This is indicated
by a ’0’ in the MONITOR Channel Active MAC status bit.
After having written the MONITOR Data Transmit (MOX) register, the microprocessor
sets the MONITOR Transmit Control bit MXC to ’1’. This enables the MX bit to go active
(0), indicating the presence of valid MONITOR data (contents of MOX) in the
correspondin g frame. As a resu lt, the receiving de vice stores the MON ITOR byte in its
MONITOR Receive MOR register and generates an MDR interrupt status.
Alerted by the MD R in terrupt, the m icro proc ess or re ads th e M ONITO R R ece ive (MO R)
register. When it is ready to accept data (e.g. based on the value in MOR, which in a
point-to-multipoint application might be the address of the destination device), it sets the
MR control bit MRC to ’1’ to enable the receiver to store succeeding MONITOR channel
bytes an d ac kno wl edg e them acc ordi ng to th e MO N ITOR ch ann el protocol. In a ddit ion,
it enables other MONITOR channel interrupts by setting MONITOR Interrupt Enable
(MIE) to ’1’.
As a result, the first MONITOR byte is acknowledged by the receiving device setting the
MR bit to ’0’. This causes a MONITOR Data Acknowledge MDA interrupt st atus at the
transmitter.
A new MONITOR data byte can now be written by the microprocessor in MOX. The MX
bit is still in the active (0) state. The transmitter indicates a new byte in the MONITOR
channel by returning the MX bit active after sending it once in the inactive state. As a
result, the receiver stores the MONITOR byte in MOR and generates a new MDR
interrupt status. When the microprocessor has read the MOR register, the receiver
acknowledges the data by returning the MR bit active after sending it once in the inactive
state. This in turn causes the transmitter to generate an MDA interrupt status.
This "MDA interrupt – write data – MDR interrupt – read data – MDA interrupt"
handshake is repeated as long as the transmitter has data to send. Note that the
MONITOR channel protocol imposes no maximum reaction times to the microprocessor.
When the l ast by te has been ackn owledg ed by the re ceiver (MDA i nterrupt s tatus), the
microprocessor sets the MONITOR Transmit Control bit MXC to ’0’. This enforces an
inactive (’1’) state in the MX bit. Two frames of MX inactive signifies the end of a
message. Thus, a MONITOR Channel End of Reception MER interrupt status is
generated by the receiver when the MX bit is received in the inactive state in two
consecuti ve frames. As a res ult, the microproc essor sets the MR contro l bit MRC to 0,
which in turn enforces an inactive state in the MR bit. This marks the end of the
transmission, making the MONITOR Channel Active MAC bit return to ’0’.
During a transmission process, it is possible for the receiver to ask a transmission to be
aborted by sending an inactive MR bit value in two consecutive frames. This is effected
by the microproc es sor w riting the MR control bit MRC to ’0’. An aborte d trans mis si on is
indicated by a MONITOR Channel Data Abort MAB interrupt status at the transmitter.
The MONITOR transfer protocol rules are summarized in the following section: