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The Ethernet block supports power management with remote wake-up over LAN. The 
host system can be powered down, even including part of the Ethernet block itself, while 
the Ethernet block continues to listen to packets on the LAN. Appropriately formed 
packets can be received and recognized by the Ethernet block and used to trigger the 
host system to wake up from its power-down state.

Wake-up of the system takes effect through an interrupt. When a wake-up event is 
detected, the WakeupInt bit in the IntStatus register is set. The interrupt status will trigger 
an interrupt if the corresponding WakeupIntEn bit in the IntEnable register is set. This 
interrupt should be used by system power management logic to wake up the system.

While in a power-down state the packet that generates a Wake-up on LAN event is lost.

There are two ways in which Ethernet packets can trigger wake-up events: generic 
Wake-up on LAN and Magic Packet. Magic Packet filtering uses an additional filter for 
Magic Packet detection. In both cases a Wake-up on LAN event is only triggered if the 
triggering packet has a valid CRC. 

 shows the generation of the wake-up 

signal.

The RxFilterWoLStatus register can be read by the software to inspect the reason for a 
Wake-up event. Before going to power-down the power management software should 
clear the register by writing the RxFilterWolClear register.

NOTE: when entering in power-down mode, a receive frame might be not entirely stored 
into the Rx buffer. In this situation, after turning exiting power-down mode, the next 
receive frame is corrupted due to the data of the previous frame being added in front of 
the last received frame. Software drivers have to reset the receive datapath just after 
exiting power-down mode.

The following subsections describe the two Wake-up on LAN mechanisms.

The receive filter functionality can be used to generate Wake-up on LAN events. If the 
RxFilterEnWoL bit of the RxFilterCtrl register is set, the receive filter will set the WakeupInt 
bit of the IntStatus register if a frame is received that passes the filter. The interrupt will 
only be generated if the CRC of the frame is correct.

The Ethernet block supports wake-up using Magic Packet technology (see ‘Magic Packet 
technology’, Advanced Micro Devices). A Magic Packet is a specially formed packet solely 
intended for wake-up purposes. This packet can be received, analyzed and recognized by 
the Ethernet block and used to trigger a wake-up event.

A Magic Packet is a packet that contains in its data portion the station address repeated 
16 times with no breaks or interruptions, preceded by 6 Magic Packet synchronization 
bytes with the value 0xFF. Other data may be surrounding the Magic Packet pattern in the 
data portion of the packet. The whole packet must be a well-formed Ethernet frame.