AM79C960

PRELIMINARY Am79C960 PCnetTM-ISA Single-Chip Ethernet Controller DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS s Single-chip Ethernet controller for the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) and Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) buses s Supports IEEE 802.3/ANSI 8802-3 and Ethernet standards s Direct interface to the ISA or EISA bus s Software compatible with AMD’s Am7990 LANCE register and descriptor architecture s Low power, CMOS design with sleep mode allows reduced power consumption for critical battery powered applications s Individual 136-byte transmit and 128-byte receive FIFOs provide packet buffering for increased system latency, and support the following features: — Automatic retransmission with no FIFO reload — Automatic receive stripping and transmit padding (individually programmable) — Automatic runt packet rejection — Automatic deletion of received collision frames s Dynamic transmit FCS generation programmable on a frame-by-frame basis s Single +5 V power supply s Internal/external loopback capabilities s Supports optional Boot PROM for diskless node applications Advanced Micro Devices s Provides integrated Attachment Unit Interface (AUI) and 10BASE-T transceiver with 3 modes of port selection: — Automatic selection of AUI or 10BASE-T — Software selection of AUI or 10BASE-T — Jumper selection of AUI or 10BASE-T s Automatic Twisted Pair receive polarity detection and automatic correction of the receive polarity s Supports bus-master and shared-memory architectures ...