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ThunderLAN

™ TNETE110A

PCI ETHERNET

™ CONTROLLER

SINGLE-CHIP 10 BASE-T

SPWS022A – APRIL 1996 – REVISED NOVEMBER 1996

1

POST OFFICE BOX 1443

Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)

Local Bus

– Compliant With PCI Local-Bus

Specification (Revision 2.0)

– 33-MHz Operation

– 3-V or 5-V I/O Operation

– Adaptive Performance Optimization

™

(APO) by Texas Instruments (TI

™) for

Highest Available PCI Bandwidth

– High-Performance Bus Master

Architecture With Byte-Aligning DMA

Controller for Low Host CPU and Bus

Utilization

– Plug-and-Play Compatible

– Time Division Multiplexed SRAM

– 2-Gbps Internal Bandwidth

ThunderLAN Components

Transmit and Receive Channels

Register

Attachment Unit Interface (AUI) Physical

Layer Interface

– Single-Chip IEEE 802.3 and Blue Book

Ethernet-Compliant Solution

– DSP-Based Digital Phase-Locked Loop

– Smart Squelch Allows for Transparent

Link Testing

– Transmission Waveshaping

– Autopolarity (Reverse Polarity

Correction)

– External/Internal Loopback Including

Twisted Pair and AUI

– 10 Base-2 Supported Via AUI Interface

– Green PC Compatible

– Microsoft

™ Advanced Power

Management

Design and Autoconfiguration

Management Information Base (MIB)

Compatible

(JTAG)

and Thin Quad Flat Packages (PGE Suffix)

PCI

Bus

PCI

Bus Master

Control

FIFO

Registers

Multiplexed

SRAM

FIFO

Ethernet

LAN

Controller

10 Mbps

10 Base-T

Physical

Layer

Interface

10 Base-T

Ethernet

10 Base-5

(AUI)

Figure 1. ThunderLAN Architecture

Copyright

© 1996, Texas Instruments Incorporated

† The PCI Local-Bus Specification, Revision 2.0 should be used as a reference with this document.

‡ IEEE Standard 1149.1–1990, IEEE Standard Test-Access Port and Boundary-Scan Architecture

ThunderLAN, Adaptive Performance Optimization, and TI are trademarks of Texas Instruments Incorporated.

Ethernet is a trademark of Xerox Corporation.

Microsoft is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

PRODUCTION DATA information is current as of publication date.

Products conform to specifications per the terms of Texas Instruments

standard warranty. Production processing does not necessarily include

testing of all parameters.