KSZ8794CNX
Integrated 4-Port 10/100 Managed Ethernet
Switch with Gigabit RGMII/MII/RMII Interface
- On-Chip Termination Resistors and Internal
Biasing for Differential Pairs to Reduce
Power
Target Applications
• Industrial Ethernet Applications that Employ IEEE
802.3-Compliant MACs. (Ethernet/IP, Profinet,
MODBUS TCP, etc.)
- HP Auto MDI/MDI-X Crossover Support Elim-
inates the Need to Differentiate Between
Straight or Crossover Cables in Applications
• VoIP Phone
• Set-Top/Game Box
• Automotive
• MAC and GMAC Ports
- Three Internal Media Access Control (MAC1
to MAC3) Units and One Internal Gigabit
Media Access Control (GMAC4) Unit
• Industrial Control
• IPTV POF
- RGMII, MII, or RMII Interfaces Support for
the Port 4 GMAC4 with Uplink
• SOHO Residential Gateway with Full-Wire Speed
of Four LAN Ports
- 2 KByte Jumbo Packet Support
• Broadband Gateway/Firewall/VPN
• Integrated DSL/Cable Modem
- Tail Tagging Mode (One Byte Added Before
FCS) Support on Port 4 to Inform the Proces-
sor in which Ingress Port Receives the
Packet and its Priority
• Wireless LAN Access Point + Gateway
• Standalone 10/100 Switch
• Networked Measurement and Control Systems
- Supports Reduced Media Independent Inter-
face (RMII) with 50 MHz Reference Clock
Output
Features
- Supports Media Independent Interface (MII)
in Either PHY Mode or MAC Mode on Port 4
- LinkMD® Cable Diagnostic Capabilities for
Determining Cable Opens, Shorts, and
Length
• Management Capabilities
- The KSZ8794CNX Includes All the Functions
of a 10/100BASE-T/TX Switch System Which
Combines a Switch Engine, Frame Buffer
Management, Address Look-Up Table,
Queue Management, MIB Counters, Media
Access Controllers (MAC), and PHY Trans-
ceivers
• Advanced Switch Capabilities
- Non-Blocking Store-and-Forward Switch
Fabric Assures Fast Packet Delivery by Uti-
lizing a 1024-Entries Forwarding Table
- Non-Blocking Store-and-Forward Switch
Fabric Assures Fast Packet Delivery by Uti-
lizing a 1024-Entries Forwarding Table
- 64 KB Frame Buffer RAM
- IEEE 802.1q VLAN Support for up to 128
Active VLAN Groups (Full-Range 4096 of
VLAN IDs)
- Port Mirroring/Monitoring/Sniffing: Ingress
and/or Egress Traffic to Any Port
- MIB Counters for Fully Compliant Statistics
Gathering (36 Counters per Port)
- IEEE 802.1p/Q Tag Insertion or Removal on
a Per Port Basis (Egress)
- Support Hardware for Port-Based Flush and
Freeze Command in MIB Counter.
- VLAN ID Tag/Untag Options on Per Port
Basis
- Multiple Loopback of Remote PHY, and MAC
Modes Support for the Diagnostics
- Fully Compliant with IEEE 802.3/802.3u
Standards
- Rapid Spanning Tree Support (RSTP) for
Topology Management and Ring/Linear
Recovery
- IEEE 802.3x Full-Duplex with Force-Mode
Option and Half-Duplex Back-Pressure Colli-
sion Flow Control
• Robust PHY Ports
- IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
Support
- Four Integrated IEEE 802.3/802.3u-Compli-
ant Ethernet Transceivers Supporting
10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX
- IGMP v1/v2/v3 Snooping for Multicast Packet
Filtering
- IEEE 802.1az EEE Supported
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