SNLS779A July 2025 – November 2025 DP83TC815-Q1
PRODUCTION DATA
Electrostatic discharge is a serious issue for electronic circuits and if not properly mitigated can create short-term issues (signal integrity, link drops, packet loss) as well as long-term reliability faults. The DP83TC815-Q1 has robust integrated ESD circuitry and offers an ESD sensing architecture. ESD events can be detected on MDI pins independently for further analysis and debug.
Additionally, the DP83TC815-Q1 provides an interrupt status flag; Register 0x12[11] is set when an ESD event is logged. This interrupt can be routed to the INT_N pin using bit[3] of the same register. Register 0x442[14:9] store the number of ESD events that have occurred since power-up. Hardware and software resets are ignored by the ESDS register to prevent unwarranted clearing.