AM79C972 Description
Am79C972 PCnet™-FAST+ Enhanced 10/100 Mbps PCI Ethernet Controller with OnNow Support DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS n Integrated Fast Ethernet controller for the Peripheral ponent Interconnect (PCI) bus 32-bit glueless PCI host interface Supports PCI clock.
AM79C972 Key Features
- Implements Magic Packet mode
- Magic Packet mode and the physical address loaded from EEPROM at power up without requiring PCI clock
- Supports PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification Version 1.0
- Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) Specification Version 1.0
- Supports Network Device Class Power Management Specification Version 1.0
- Programmable FIFO watermarks for both transmit and receive operations
- Receive frame queuing for high latency PCI bus host operation
- Programmable allocation of buffer space between transmit and receive queues
- IEEE 802.3-pliant MII
- Intelligent Auto-Poll™ external PHY status monitor and interrupt