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

4-June-07 P1901_PRO_016_r0
The PCT shall contain, for each possible capability, a value that indicates if the capability is performed or not, and
the grade of functionality that is running at the time.
The PCT shall also be divided into four sections corresponding to the above mentioned groups of capabilities:
Common, Chip, Reference Design and Firmware related.
The common capabilities section is empty until a decision on which capabilities must be considered common for all
vendors is reached. The table is structured as follows:
Capability Section Index Value Default
High
Value
Chip Vendor Chip
Related
1 - - -
Chip Capability
j
…
2 - - -
RD Vendor RD
Related
1 - - -
RD Capability k 2 - - -
…
FW Vendor FW
Related
1 - - -
FW Capability l 2 - - -
…
Table 37 PCT values for the proposed capabilities
Default
Low
Value
As the RUN_CAP_MSG is decoded, the position in the PCT shall be located using the CAP_RUN_REF field
content, and then, the correspondent value shall be extracted from the following field called CAP_VALUE. After
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