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AM79C978 Datasheet, PDF (1/261 Pages) Advanced Micro Devices – Single-Chip 1/10 Mbps PCI Home Networking Controller | |||
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Am79C978
PCnetâ¢- Home
Single-Chip 1/10 Mbps PCI Home Networking Controller
DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS
n Fully integrated 1 Mbps HomePNA Physical
Layer (PHY) as defined by Home Phoneline
Networking Alliance (HomePNA) specification
1.1
â Optimized for home networking applications
over ordinary telephone wire
â In-band control features:
Adjustable power and speed levels
32 bits of reserved in-band messaging piggy-
backed on Ethernet packet
â Register programmable features:
Power control
Performance registers
Speed control
Major frame timing parameters programma-
ble: ISBI, AID ISBI, pulse width, inter-symbol
time
n Fully integrated 10 Mbps PHY interface
â Comprehensive Auto-Negotiation
implementation
â Full-duplex capability
â Optimized for 10BASE-T applications
n Integrated Fast Ethernet controller for the
Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus
â 32-bit glueless PCI host interface
â Supports PCI clock frequency from DC to
33 MHz independent of network clock
â Supports network operation with PCI clock
from 15 MHz to 33 MHz
â High performance bus mastering
architecture with integrated Direct Memory
Access (DMA) Buffer Management Unit for
low CPU and bus utilization
â PCI draft specification revision 2.2 compliant
â Supports PCI Subsystem/Subvendor ID/
Vendor ID programming through the
EEPROM interface
â Supports both PCI 5.0-V and 3.3-V signaling
environments
â Plug and Play compatible
â Supports an unlimited PCI burst length
â Big endian and little endian byte alignments
supported
â Implements optional PCI power management
event (PME) pin
n Dual-speed CSMA/CD (10 Mbps and 100 Mbps)
Media Access Controller (MAC) compliant with
IEEE/ANSI 802.3 Ethernet standard
n Media Independent Interface (MII) for
connecting external 10/100 Mbps transceivers
â IEEE 802.3u compliant MII
â Intelligent Auto-Poll⢠external PHY status
monitor and interrupt
â Supports both auto-negotiable and non-
auto-negotiable external PHYs
â Supports 10BASE-T, 100BASETX/FX,
100BASET4, and 100BASET2 IEEE 802.3
compliant MII PHYs at full-duplex or half-
duplex
n Full-duplex operation supported on the MII port
with independent Transmit (TX) and Receive
(RX) channels
n Supports PC98 and Net PC specifications
â Implements full OnNow features including
pattern matching and link status wake-up
events
â Implements Magic Packet⢠mode
â Magic Packet mode and the physical address
loaded from EEPROM at power up without
requiring PCI clock
â Supports PCI Bus Power Management
Interface specification revision 1.1
â Supports Advanced Configuration and
Power Interface (ACPI) specification version
1.0
â Supports Network Device Class Power
Management specification version 1.0a
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Publication# 22206 Rev: D Amendment/0
Issue Date: November 1999
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