LAN9215
16-bit Non-PCI 10/100 Ethernet Controller with HP Auto-MDIX
Support
• Single chip Ethernet controller
- Fully compliant with IEEE 802.3/802.3u stan-
Highlights
• Optimized for medium performance applications
dards
• Efficient architecture with low CPU overhead
- Integrated Ethernet MAC and PHY
• Easily interfaces to most 16-bit embedded CPU’s
- 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX support
• Integrated PHY with HP Auto-MDIX support
- Full- and Half-duplex support
• Supports audio & video streaming over Ethernet:
- Full-duplex flow control
multiple standard-definition (SD) MPEG2 streams
- Backpressure for half-duplex flow control
- Preamble generation and removal
Target Applications
- 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
• Basic cable, satellite, and IP set-top boxes
• Digital video recorders
• Video-over IP solutions, IP PBX & video phones
• Wireless routers & access points
• Audio distribution systems
• Printers, kiosks, security systems
• General embedded applications
- Promiscuous mode
- Inverse filtering
Key Benefits
- 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
- 16-bit data bus
- 16Kbyte FIFO with flexible TX/RX allocation
- One configurable host interrupt
• Miscellaneous features
- Low-profile 100-pin TQFP, or 100-ball LFBGA
RoHS Compliant package
- Integrated 1.8V regulator
• Non-PCI Ethernet controller for medium perfor-
mance applications
- 16-bit interface
- Burst-mode read support
- External MII Interface
• 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 flexi-
bility
- 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
• SRAM-like interface easily interfaces to most
embedded CPU’s or SoC’s
• Reduced Power Modes
- Numerous power management modes
- Wake on LAN
• 0C to +70C Commercial Temperature Support
- Magic packet wakeup
- Wakeup indicator event signal
- Link Status Change
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