June 1998
DP83850C 100 Mb/s TX/T4 Repeater Interface Controller
(100RIC™)
General Description
Features
The DP83850C 100 Mb/s TX/T4 Repeater Interface Con- ■ IEEE 802.3u repeater and management compatible
troller, known as 100RIC, is designed specifically to meet
the needs of today's high speed Ethernet networking sys-
tems. The DP83850C is fully compatible with the IEEE
802.3 repeater's clause 27.
■ Supports Class II TX translational repeater and Class I
T4 repeater
■ Supports 12 network connections (ports)
■ Up to 31 repeater chips cascadable for larger hub appli-
The DP83850C supports up to twelve 100 Mb/s links with
its network interface ports. The 100RIC can be configured
to be used with either 100BASE-TX or 100BASE-T4 PHY
technologies. Larger repeaters with up to 372 ports may
be constructed by cascading DP83850Cs together using
the built-in Inter Repeater bus.
cations (up to 372 ports)
■ Separate jabber and partition state machines for each
port
■ Management interface to DP83856 allows all repeater
MIBs to be maintained
In conjunction with a DP83856 100 Mb/s Repeater Infor- ■ Large per-port management counters - reduces man-
mation Base device,
a
DP83850C based repeater
agement CPU overhead
becomes a managed entity that is compatible with IEEE
802.3u (clause 30), collecting and providing an easy inter-
face to all the required network statistics.
■ On-chip elasticity buffer for PHY signal re-timing to the
DP83850C clock source
■ Serial register interface - reduces cost
■ Physical layer device control/status access available via
the serial register interface
■ Detects repeater identification errors
■ 132 pin PQFP package
System Diagram
DP83850C
DP83856
100 Mb/s
100 Mb/s
Repeater Interface Controller
(100RIC8)
Repeater Information Base
(100RIB)
Inter Repeater Bus
Management Bus
(IR_COL, IR_DV)
Statistics
SRAM
RX Enable [11..0]
MII
Management
CPU
DP83840A
100 PHY
#0
DP83840A
100 PHY
#1
DP83840A
100 PHY
#11
DP83840A
100 PHY
#2
Program
Memory
DP83223
100BASE-X
Transceiver
DP83223
100BASE-X
Transceiver
DP83223
100BASE-X
Transceiver
DP83223
100BASE-X
Transceiver
100Mb/s
Ethernet
Ports
Management
I/O Devices
Port 0
Port 1
Port 2
Port 11
Note: The above system diagram depicts the repeater configured in 100BASE-TX mode.
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