Highlights
- Optimized for the highest performance applications
- Efficient architecture with low CPU overhead
- Easily interfaces to most 32-bit and 16-bit embedded CPU’s
- Integrated PHY with HP Auto-MDIX Support
- Supports audio & video streaming over Ethernet: multiple high-definition (HD) MPEG2 streams
- Compatible with other members of LAN9218 family
Target Applications
- Video distribution systems, multi-room PVR
- Cable, satellite, and IP set-top boxes
- Digital video recorders and DVD recorder/players
- Digital TV
- Digital media clients/servers and home gateways
- Video-over IP Solutions, IP PBX & video phones
- Wireless routers & access points
- High-end audio distribution systems
Key Benefits
- Non-PCI Ethernet controller for the highest performance applications
- Highest performing non-PCI Ethernet controller
- 32-bit interface with fast bus cycle times
- Burst-mode read support
- Eliminates dropped packets
- Internal buffer memory can store over 200 packets
- Automatic 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
- 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 10/100 Ethernet PHY
- Supports HP Auto-MDIX
- Auto-negotiation
- Supports energy-detect power down
- Host bus interface
- Simple, SRAM-like interface
- 32 or 16-bit data bus
- 16Kbyte FIFO with flexible TX/RX allocation
- One configurable host interrupt
- Miscellaneous features
- Low-profile 100-pin TQFP, lead-free RoHS Compliant package
- Integrated 1.8V regulator
- General Purpose Timer
- Optional EEPROM interface
- Support for 3 status LEDs multiplexed with Programmable GPIO signals
- Single 3.3V Power Supply with 5V tolerant I/O
- Commercial and Industrial (LAN9218i) Temperature Support
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Last Change: 22nd of February 2013
