LAN83C171
ADVANCE INFORMATION
LAN83C171 - EPIC/XF
ACPI/PC 97 Compliant Integrated PCI 10/100
Mbps Fast Ethernet Controller
FEATURES
• IEEE 802.3 Compatible 10/100 Mbps Fast
Ethernet Controller
• Fully Compliant Glueless PCI Version 2.1
Bus Interface
• Support Included for CardBus Status
Registers
• PCI Universal 3V/5V Output Drives
• Preemptive Interrupt Support for Efficient
Network Packet Processing
• High Performance Two Channel Bus Master
(132 Mbps)
• Scatter/Gather DMA Capability
• Programmable Burst Length Counter
• ACPI Compliant for
- PCI Bus Class Specification
- Network Device Class Specification
• PC 97 Compliant
• Wake-Up on Magic PacketTM Detection
and/or Network Link-Down Occurrence
• Special Low Power State Mode For
Scanning Magic PacketsTM Upon PCI Bus
Power Loss
• Supports Chaining of Transmit Packets
• Optional Early Transmit and Early Receive
• Optional Receive Lookahead Buffering
Mode
• Automatic Rejection of Runt Packets
• Automatic Retransmission of Collision
Frames from Internal Buffer
• Automatic Padding of Short Frames
• 4.5 Kbyte On-Chip Receive Buffer and 1.5
Kbyte On-Chip Transmit Buffer Eliminate
Bus Latency Issues
• Optional Variable Depth, 32 Bit Wide
External Receive Buffer (0, 16, 32 or 128
Kbytes)
• Big or Little Endian Byte Ordering
• Capable of Supporting 64 Kbyte Expansion
Boot Flash RAM
• IEEE Standard MII Interface to Physical
Layer
• Interface to LAN83C694 - Shares MII Pins
• Serial MII Management Interface
• Serial EEPROM Interface for Storage of
LAN Address and Configuration Information
• On-Chip Clock Multiplier
• Low Power Sleep Mode
• Support for Full Duplex Ethernet
• Internal and External Loopback Diagnostic
Functions
• Simple I/O Pin Mapping Scheme to
Facilitate In-Circuit Test
• Single 5V Power Supply
• 208 Pin QFP Package
• Software Drivers to Operate with Major
Operating Systems, Including:
- NDIS 3.4 and 5 for Microsoft
- DOS ODI for Novell