AM79C978
AM79C978 is Single-Chip 1/10 Mbps PCI Home Networking Controller manufactured by Advanced Micro Devices.
features
: Adjustable power and speed levels 32 bits of reserved in-band messaging piggybacked on Ethernet packet
- Register programmable features
: Power control Performance registers Speed control Major frame timing parameters programmable: ISBI, AID ISBI, pulse width, inter-symbol time n Fully integrated 10 Mbps PHY interface
- prehensive Auto-Negotiation implementation
- Full-duplex capability
- Optimized for 10BASE-T applications n Integrated Fast Ethernet controller for the Peripheral ponent Interconnect (PCI) bus
- 32-bit glueless PCI host interface
- Supports PCI clock frequency from DC to 33 MHz independent of network clock
- Supports network operation with PCI clock from 15 MHz to 33 MHz
- High performance bus mastering architecture with integrated Direct Memory Access (DMA) Buffer Management Unit for low CPU and bus utilization
- PCI draft specification revision 2.2 pliant
- Supports PCI Subsystem/Subvendor ID/ Vendor ID programming through the EEPROM interface
- Supports both PCI 5.0-V and 3.3-V signaling environments
- Plug and Play patible
- Supports an unlimited PCI burst length
- Big endian and little endian byte alignments supported
- Implements optional PCI power management event (PME) pin n Dual-speed CSMA/CD (10 Mbps and 100 Mbps) Media Access Controller (MAC) pliant with IEEE/ANSI 802.3 Ethernet standard n Media Independent Interface (MII) for connecting external 10/100 Mbps transceivers
- IEEE 802.3u pliant MII
- Intelligent Auto-Poll™ external PHY status monitor and interrupt
- Supports both auto-negotiable and nonauto-negotiable external PHYs
- Supports 10BASE-T, 100BASETX/FX, 100BASET4, and 100BASET2 IEEE 802.3 pliant MII PHYs at full-duplex or halfduplex n Full-duplex operation supported on the MII port with independent Transmit (TX) and Receive (RX) channels n Supports PC98 and Net PC specifications
- Implements full On Now features including pattern matching and link status wake-up events
- Implements Magic Packet™ mode
- Magic Packet mode...