AM79C978

Am79C978 PCnet™- Home Single-Chip 1/10 Mbps PCI Home Networking Controller DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS n Fully integrated 1 Mbps HomePNA Physical Layer (PHY) as defined by Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA) specification 1.1 — Optimized for home networking applications over ordinary telephone wire — In-band control 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 — Comprehensive Auto-Negotiation implementation — Full-duplex capability — Optimized for 10BASE-T applications n Integrated Fast Ethernet controller for the Peripheral Component 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 compliant — 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 compatible — Supports an unlimited PCI burst length — Big endian and little endian byte alignments suppo...