ST STM32F40 Series Reference Manual page 1011

Ethernet (ETH): media access control (MAC) with DMA controller
Bits 16:14 TTC: Transmit threshold control
Bit 13 ST: Start/stop transmission
Bits 12:8 Reserved, must be kept at reset value.
Bit 7 FEF: Forward error frames
Bit 6 FUGF: Forward undersized good frames
Bit 5 Reserved, must be kept at reset value.
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These three bits control the threshold level of the Transmit FIFO. Transmission starts when
the frame size within the Transmit FIFO is larger than the threshold. In addition, full frames
with a length less than the threshold are also transmitted. These bits are used only when the
TSF bit (Bit 21) is cleared.
000: 64
001: 128
010: 192
011: 256
100: 40
101: 32
110: 24
111: 16
When this bit is set, transmission is placed in the Running state, and the DMA checks the
transmit list at the current position for a frame to be transmitted. Descriptor acquisition is
attempted either from the current position in the list, which is the transmit list base address
set by the ETH_DMATDLAR register, or from the position retained when transmission was
stopped previously. If the current descriptor is not owned by the DMA, transmission enters
the Suspended state and the transmit buffer unavailable bit (ETH_DMASR [2]) is set. The
Start Transmission command is effective only when transmission is stopped. If the command
is issued before setting the DMA ETH_DMATDLAR register, the DMA behavior is
unpredictable.
When this bit is cleared, the transmission process is placed in the Stopped state after
completing the transmission of the current frame. The next descriptor position in the transmit
list is saved, and becomes the current position when transmission is restarted. The Stop
Transmission command is effective only when the transmission of the current frame is
complete or when the transmission is in the Suspended state.
When this bit is set, all frames except runt error frames are forwarded to the DMA.
When this bit is cleared, the Rx FIFO drops frames with error status (CRC error, collision
error, giant frame, watchdog timeout, overflow). However, if the frame's start byte (write)
pointer is already transferred to the read controller side (in Threshold mode), then the frames
are not dropped. The Rx FIFO drops the error frames if that frame's start byte is not
transferred (output) on the ARI bus.
When this bit is set, the Rx FIFO forwards undersized frames (frames with no error and
length less than 64 bytes) including pad-bytes and CRC).
When this bit is cleared, the Rx FIFO drops all frames of less than 64 bytes, unless such a
frame has already been transferred due to lower value of receive threshold (e.g., RTC = 01).
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