esp-idf/examples/ethernet/ethernet

Ethernet Example

(See the README.md file in the upper level 'examples' directory for more information about examples.)

Overview

This example demonstrates basic usage of Ethernet driver together with tcpip_adapter. The work flow of the example could be as follow:

1. Initialises the Ethernet interface and enables it
2. Send DHCP requests and tries to obtain a DHCP lease
3. If successful then you will be able to ping the device

If you have a new Ethernet applicaion to go (for example, connect to IoT cloud via Ethernet), try this as a basic template, then add your own code.

How to use example

Hardware Required

To run this example, you should have one ESP32 dev board integrated with an Ethernet interface, or just connect your ESP32 core board to a breakout board which featured in RMII Etherent PHY. Currently esp-idf officially support only two Ethernet PHY: TLK110 from Texas Instruments and LAN8720 from microchip.

Configure the project

Enter make menuconfig if you are using GNU Make based build system or enter idf.py menuconfig if you' are using CMake based build system. Then go into Example Configuration menu.

• Choose PHY device under Ethernet PHY option option

• Set PHY address under PHY address option, this address depends on the hardware and the PHY configuration. Consult the documentation/datasheet for the PHY hardware you have.

  • Address 31 (default) for Espressif's Ethernet board with TLK110 PHY by default
  • Address 1 for the common Waveshare LAN8720 PHY breakout
  • Address 0 for other LAN8720 breakouts

• Check whether or not to control PHY's power (if true, you need also to set PHY Power GPIO number later)

• Set SMI MDC/MDIO GPIO number according to board schemetic, default these two GPIOs are set as below:

  Default Example GPIO	RMII Signal	Notes
  GPIO23	MDC	Output to PHY
  GPIO18	MDIO	Bidirectional

• Select one kind of EMAC clock mode under EMAC clock mode option. Possible configurations of the clock are listed as below:

  Mode	GPIO Pin	Signal name	Notes
  external	GPIO0	EMAC_TX_CLK	Input of 50MHz PHY clock
  internal	GPIO16	EMAC_CLK_OUT	Output of 50MHz APLL clock
  internal	GPIO17	EMAC_CLK_180	Inverted output of 50MHz APLL clock (suitable for long clock trace)

  • The external reference clock of 50MHz must be supplied on GPIO0.
  • The ESP32 can generate a 50MHz clock using its APLL. When the APLL is already used as clock source for other purposes (most likely I²S), you have no choice but choose external clock.

Build and Flash

Enter make -j4 flash monitor if you are using GNU Make based build system or enter idf.py build flash monitor if you' are using CMake based build system.

(To exit the serial monitor, type Ctrl-].)

See the Getting Started Guide for full steps to configure and use ESP-IDF to build projects.

Example Output

I (0) cpu_start: App cpu up.
I (281) heap_init: Initializing. RAM available for dynamic allocation:
I (288) heap_init: At 3FFAE6E0 len 00001920 (6 KiB): DRAM
I (294) heap_init: At 3FFB4358 len 0002BCA8 (175 KiB): DRAM
I (300) heap_init: At 3FFE0440 len 00003BC0 (14 KiB): D/IRAM
I (307) heap_init: At 3FFE4350 len 0001BCB0 (111 KiB): D/IRAM
I (313) heap_init: At 4008966C len 00016994 (90 KiB): IRAM
I (319) cpu_start: Pro cpu start user code
I (113) cpu_start: Starting scheduler on PRO CPU.
I (0) cpu_start: Starting scheduler on APP CPU.
I (116) eth_example: Power On Ethernet PHY
I (126) system_api: Base MAC address is not set, read default base MAC address from BLK0 of EFUSE
I (126) emac: emac reset done
I (126) eth_example: Ethernet Started
I (2126) eth_example: Ethernet Link Up
I (11616) event: eth ip: 192.168.2.156, mask: 255.255.255.0, gw: 192.168.2.2
I (11616) eth_example: Ethernet Got IP Addr
I (11616) eth_example: ~~~~~~~~~~~
I (11616) eth_example: ETHIP:192.168.2.156
I (11626) eth_example: ETHMASK:255.255.255.0
I (11626) eth_example: ETHGW:192.168.2.2
I (11636) eth_example: ~~~~~~~~~~~

Troubleshooting

• If the PHY address is incorrect then the EMAC will still be initialised, but all attempts to read/write configuration registers in the PHY's register will fail, for example, waiting for auto-negotiation done.

• Check PHY Clock

  The ESP32's MAC and the External PHY device need a common 50MHz reference clock. This clock can either be provided externally by a crystal oscillator (e.g. crystal connected to the PHY or a seperate crystal oscillator) or internally by generating from EPS32's APLL. The signal integrity of this clock is strict, so it is highly recommended to add a 33Ω resistor in series to reduce ringing.

• Check GPIO connections, the RMII PHY wiring is fixed which can not be changed through either IOMUX or GPIO Matrix. They're described as below:

  GPIO	RMII Signal	ESP32 EMAC Function
  GPIO21	TX_EN	EMAC_TX_EN
  GPIO19	TX0	EMAC_TXD0
  GPIO22	TX1	EMAC_TXD1
  GPIO25	RX0	EMAC_RXD0
  GPIO26	RX1	EMAC_RXD1
  GPIO27	CRS_DV	EMAC_RX_DRV

• Check GPIO0

  GPIO0 is a strapping pin for entering UART flashing mode on reset, care must be taken when using this pin as EMAC_TX_CLK. If the clock output from the PHY is oscillating during reset, the ESP32 may randomly enter UART flashing mode. One solution is to use an additional GPIO as a "power pin", which either powers the PHY on/off or enables/disables the PHY's own oscillator. This prevents the clock signal from being active during a system reset. For this configuration to work, GPIO0 also needs a pullup resistor and the "power pin" GPIO will need a pullup/pulldown resistor - as appropriate in order to keep the PHY clock disabled when the ESP32 is in reset. See the example source code to see how the "power pin" GPIO can be managed in software. The example defaults to using GPIO17 for this function, but it can be overriden. On Espressif's Ethernet development board, GPIO17 is the power pin used to enable/disable the PHY oscillator.