STE10/100
PCI 10/100 ETHERNET CONTROLLER
WITH INTEGRATED PHY (5V)
PRODUCT PREVIEW
1.0 DESCRIPTION
The STE10/100 is a high performance PCI Fast Eth-
ernet controller with integrated physical layer inter-
face for 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX application.
It was designed with advanced CMOS technology to
provide glueless 32-bit bus master interface for PCI
bus, boot ROM interface, CSMA/CD protocol for Fast
Ethernet, as well as the physical media interface for
100BASE-TX of IEEE802.3u and 10BASE-T of
IEEE802.3. The auto-negotiation function is also
supported for speed and duplex detection.
PQFP128 (14x20x2.7mm)
ORDERING NUMBER: STE10/100
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PCI bus interface Rev. 2.2 compliant
The STE10/100 provides both half-duplex and full-
duplex operation, as well as support for full-duplex
flow control. It provides long FIFO buffers for trans-
mission and receiving, and early interrupt mecha-
nism to enhance performance. The STE10/100 also
supports ACPI and PCI compliant power manage-
ment function.
ACPI and PCI power management standard
compliant
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Support PC99 wake on LAN
2.2 FIFO
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Provides independent transmission and
receiving FIFOs, each 2k bytes long
2.0 FEATURES
Pre-fetches up to two transmit packets to
minimize inter frame gap (IFG) to 0.96us
2.1 Industry standard
Retransmits collided packet without reload from
host memory within 64 bytes.
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IEEE802.3u 100BASE-TX and IEEE802.3
10BASE-T compliant
Automatically retransmits FIFO under-run
packet with maximum drain threshold until 3rd
time retry failure without influencing the
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Support for IEEE802.3x flow control
IEEE802.3u Auto-Negotiation support for
10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX
registers and transmit threshold of next packet.
Figure 1. STE10/100Block Diagram
Manchester
Encoder
10 TX
Filter
Flow
Control
DMA
4B/5B
Transmitter
Scrambler
125Mhz
20Mhz
TX Freq.
Synth.
Auto
Negotiation
25Mhz
Tx FiFo
Rx FiFo
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BaseLine
Restore
Adaptive
Equalization
Descrambler
5B/4B
100 clock
Recovery
10 clock
Recovery
Manchester
Decoder
Link
Polarity
September 1999
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This is preliminary information on a new product now in development. Details are subject to change without notice.