GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS

The MX98715AEC-E controller is an IEEE802.3u compliant single chip 32-bit full duplex, 10/100Mbps highly integrated Fast Ethernet combo solution, designed to address high performance local area networking (LAN) system application requirements.

FEATURES

• A single chip solution integrates 100/10 Base-T fast Ethernet MAC, PHY and PMD.

• Microsoft PC97, 98, 99 and Novell 4.11/5.0 certified.

• Support DMI 2.0 management.

• Support Intel PXE remote boot device.

• Fully comply to IEEE 802.3u specification

• Operates over 100 meters of STP and category 5 UTP cable

• Fully comply to PCI spec. 2.1 with clock frequency up to 33MHz

• Fully comply to Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) Rev 1.1

• Fully comply to PCI Bus Power Management Interface spec. Rev 1.1

• Support full and half duplex operations in both 100 Base-TX and 10 Base-T mode

• Supports 3 kinds of wake up events defined in Network Device Class Power Management Spec 1.0. Including:

- Magic PacketTM

- Link Change(link-on)

- Wake Up Frame

• Supports IEEE802.3x Frame Based Flow Control scheme in full duplex mode.

• Supports early interrupt on both transmit and receive operations.

• 100/10 Base-T NWAY auto negotiation function

• Large on-chip FIFOs for both transmit and receive operations without external local memory

• Bus master architecture with linked host buffers delivers the most optimized performance

• 32-bit bus master DMA channel provides ultra low CPU utilization, best fit in server and windows application.

• Proprietary Adaptive Network Throughput Control (ANTC) technology to optimize data integrity and throughput

• Support up to 64K bytes boot ROM interface

• Three levels of loopback diagnositic capability

• Support a variety of flexible address filtering modes with 16 CAM address and 128 bits hash

• MicroWire interface to EEPROM for customers IDs and configuration data

• Single +5V power supply, CMOS technology, 128-pin PQFP package/LQPF package