Overview: Am79C965A
PCnet™-32 Single-Chip 32-Bit Ethernet Controller
DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS
s Single-chip Ethernet controller for 486 and Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) local buses s Supports ISO 8802-3 (IEEE/ANSI 802.3) and Ethernet standards s Direct interface to the 486 local bus or VESA VL-Bus s Enhanced burst mode with support for Am486™ burst read/write operations s Software-patible with AMD’s Am7990 LANCE, Am79C90 C-LANCE, Am79C960 PCnet-ISA, Am79C961 PCnet-ISA+, Am79C961A PCnet-ISA II, Am79C970A PCnet-PCI II, and Am79C900 ILACC™ register and descriptor architecture s patible with Am2100/Am1500T and Novell NE2100/NE1500 driver software s High-performance Bus Master architecture with integrated DMA buffer management unit for low CPU and bus utilization s Built-in byte-swap logic supports both big and little endian byte alignment
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