FEATURES

• Fully-integrated 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet transceiver

• GMII, RGMII, RTBI, and MII MAC Interface options

• On-chip low-voltage regulators

• Fully compliant with IEEE 802.3, 802.3u, and 802.3ab standards

• 0.13μ CMOS—low power and cost

• Low power

  • - Less than 700 mW per port

  • - Wake on LAN support

  • - Advanced power management

• Trace matched output impedance

• Line-side loopback

• Low EMI emissions

• Cable-plant diagnostic

  • - Cable-plant analyzer function detects cable plant impairments

  • - Link quality indication LED

  • - Automatic detection and correction of wiring pair swaps, pair skew,

    and pair polarity

  • - Automatic MDI/MDIX crossover at all speeds

• Robust CESD tolerance

• Support for jumbo packets up to 9 KB

• IEEE 1149.1 (JTAG) boundary scan

• 128-pin MQFP, 117-pin BGA, and 100-pin FBGA packages

SUMMARY OF BENEFITS

• Simplifiessystemandboarddesign.

  • - Reduced I/O pin requirements with RGMII (over 50%).

  • - Clock timing can be adjusted to eliminate board trace delays

    required by the RGMII specification.

• ProvidesinteroperabilitywithIEEEstandarddevicesoperatingat10, 100, and 1000 Mbps at half- and full-duplex.

• LowerssystemBOMcostandsimplifiessystemdesign.

• Requiresnoairfloworheatsink.

• ProvidescompliancewithPCI2.2andPC99/PC2000.

• Easessystemleveldebug.

• ReducessystemdesignconstraintstomeetEMIemissionsstandards.

• Cablediagnosticfunctioncharacterizescableplantconditionand immediately indicates cabling issues.

  • - Prevents erroneous equipment return due to bad cable plants.

  • - Prevents manufacturing fall-out due to bad cable plants.

• HighCESDtolerancepreventsequipmentdamageandreturn.

• Operateswithlargerpacketsforwiderrangeofpacketprotocol

  support and improved efficiency.

• EaseofmanufacturingwithJTAGsupport,simplifiedpowersupply, and multiple MAC interfaces.