GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS

The MX98L715BEC 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.

FEATURES10/100M

Ethernet Interface

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

• Fully comply to IEEE 802.3u specification

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

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

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

• Supports transmission and reception of IEEE802.1Q tagged frames.

• Supports QoS with prioritized traffic.

• Supports network and communication device class OnNow requirements for Microsofts PC99 specifications, including 3 wake up events :

- Link Change (link-on)

- Wake Up Frames

- Magic Packet

• 100/10 Base-T NWAY auto-negotiation function

• Support up to 5 LEDs for various network activities

• Supports early interrupt on both transmit and receive operations.

• Support a variety of flexible address filtering modes with 16 CAM address and 64 bits hash table

Home PNA interface

• Support 7-wire general purpose serial interface to link with 1M8 PHY for home networking

PCI/MiniPCI interface

• Fully comply to PCI spec. 2.2 and Mini PCI spec. 0.73 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

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

• 32-bit bus master DMA channel provides ultra low CPU utilization suitable for server and windows applications.

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

Other features

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

• Support up to 128K bytes boot ROM/Flash interface

• MicroWire interface to EEPROM for customers IDs and configuration data

• Single 3.3V power supply, CMOS technology, 128-pin PQFP package