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Significance of physical identifier

Hello, I have a doubt regarding physical identifier of an Ethernet physical IC. What is the importance of their physical identifier. when I compared DP83848C and DP83640 and found not much difference in their registers. While programming, only when these identifiers are valid its starts its actual working. What might be the importance of this identifier?

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  • The question seem very awkward. What I gleaned, if you program it correctly it works, if you program it incorrectly or without care it doesn't. This doesn't seem like an earth shattering observation where doubt would be involved.

    If reading the correct ID and programming it based on the ID works, look at what it does differently in these two cases, and then related that data back to the manuals and data sheets.

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  • The question seem very awkward. What I gleaned, if you program it correctly it works, if you program it incorrectly or without care it doesn't. This doesn't seem like an earth shattering observation where doubt would be involved.

    If reading the correct ID and programming it based on the ID works, look at what it does differently in these two cases, and then related that data back to the manuals and data sheets.

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