GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The ML6697 implements the complete physical layer of the Fast Ethernet 100BASE-TX standard. The ML6697 offers a single-chip per-port solution for MII-based repeater applications. The ML6697 interfaces to the controller through the Media Independent Interface (MII).

FEATURES

■ Single-chip 100BASE-TX physical layer

■ Compliant to IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX standard

■ Supports MII-based repeater applications

■ Compliant MII (Media Indendent Interface)

■ 4B/5B encoder/decoder

■ Stream Cipher scrambler/descrambler

■ 125MHz clock recovery/generation

■ Baseline wander correction

■ Adaptive equalization and MLT-3 encoding/decoding