Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) - CISE

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determined.
LENGTH_RD 1 1 Number of bytes, excluding the
LENGTH_RD field that are
included in the REFERENCE
DESIGN section of the message
RD_VENDOR 1 - Reference Design vendor. To be
determined.
RD_CAP_k - - Other Reference Design related
capabilities (vendor dependent). To
be determined.
LENGTH_FW 1 1 Number of bytes, excluding the
LENGTH_FW field that are
included in the FIRMWARE
section of the message
FW_VENDOR 1 - Firmware vendor. To be
determined.
FW_CAP_l - - Other Firmware related capabilities
(vendor dependent). To be
determined.
Table 30 MAX_CAP_MSG message fields
In the following figure, an example of transmission of N sets of maximum capabilities using indexed scheme in all
three sections is shown. It should be kept in mind that the indexed scheme can be set individually to each section
and set, and that is applied only to the vendor dependent sections.
1 byte
MSG_TYPE = 0x1
#CAPSET = N
LMAC_SET
LENGTH_COMMON_SET
COMMON_CAP_1
Maximum Capabilities of Set 1 Maximum Capabilities of Set N
COMMON_CAP_2
…
COMMON_CAP_i
LENGTH_CHIP_SET
CHIP_VENDOR
CHIP_VERSION
LENGTH_RD_SET
RD_VENDOR
RD_FAMILY
RD_VERSION
LENGTH_FW_SET
FW_VENDOR
FW_FAMILY
FW_VERSION
Figure 104 Example of Maximum Capabilities exchange using the indexed shceme for every subsection
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LMAC_SET
LENGTH_COMMON_SET
COMMON_CAP_1
COMMON_CAP_2
…
COMMON_CAP_i
LENGTH_CHIP_SET
CHIP_VENDOR
CHIP_VERSION
LENGTH_RD_SET
RD_VENDOR
RD_FAMILY
RD_VERSION
LENGTH_FW_SET
FW_VENDOR
FW_FAMILY
FW_VERSION