General Description

The LAN9116 is a full-featured, single-chip 10/100 Ethernet controller designed for embedded applications where performance, flexibility, ease of integration and system cost control are required. The LAN9116 has been architected to provide the best price-performance ratio for any 32-bit application with medium-high performance requirements. The LAN9116 is fully IEEE 802.3 10BASE T and 802.3u 100BASE-TX compliant.

PRODUCT FEATURES

Highlights

■ Member of LAN9118 Family; optimized for medium high performance applications

■ Easily interfaces to most 32-bit and 16-bit embedded CPU’s

■ Efficient architecture with low CPU overhead

■ Integrated PHY

■ Supports audio & video streaming over Ethernet: 1-2 high-definition (HD) MPEG2 streams

■ Medium-high speed member of LAN9118 Family (all members are pin-compatible)

Target Applications

■ Medium-range Cable, satellite, and IP set-top boxes

■ Digital video recorders and DVD recorders/players

■ High definition televisions

■ Digital media clients/servers and home gateways

■ Video-over IP Solutions, IP PBX & video phones

■ Wireless routers & access points

Key Benefits

■ Non-PCI Ethernet controller for medium-high performance applications

— 32-bit interface

— Burst-mode read support

■ Eliminates dropped packets

— Internal buffer memory can store over 200 packets

— Supports automatic or host-triggered PAUSE and back pressure flow control

■ Minimizes CPU overhead

— Supports Slave-DMA

— Interrupt Pin with Programmable Hold-off timer

■ Reduces system cost and increases design flexibility

— SRAM-like interface easily interfaces to most embedded CPU’s or SoC’s

— Low-cost, low--pin count non-PCI interface for embedded designs

■ Reduced Power Modes

— Numerous power management modes

— Wake on LAN*

— Magic packet wakeup*

— Wakeup indicator event signal

— Link Status Change

■ Single chip Ethernet controller

— Fully compliant with IEEE 802.3/802.3u standards

— Integrated Ethernet MAC and PHY

— 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX support

— Full- and Half-duplex support

— Full-duplex flow control

— Backpressure for half-duplex flow control

— Preamble generation and removal

— Automatic 32-bit CRC generation and checking

— Automatic payload padding and pad removal

— Loop-back modes

■ Flexible address filtering modes

— One 48-bit perfect address

— 64 hash-filtered multicast addresses

— Pass all multicast

— Promiscuous mode

— Inverse filtering

— Pass all incoming with status report

— Disable reception of broadcast packets

■ Integrated Ethernet PHY

— Auto-negotiation

— Automatic polarity detection and correction

■ High-Performance host bus interface

— Simple, SRAM-like interface

— 32/16-bit data bus

— Large, 16Kbyte FIFO memory that can be allocated to RX or TX functions

— One configurable host interrupt

■ Miscellaneous features

— Low profile 100-pin TQFP package; green, lead free package also availaible

— Integral 1.8V regulator

— General Purpose Timer

— Support for optional EEPROM

— Support for 3 status LEDs multiplexed with Programmable GPIO signals

■ 3.3V Power Supply with 5V tolerant I/O

■ 0 to 70°C

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