General Description

The LAN9116 is a full-featured, single-chip 10/100 Ethernet controller designed for embedded applications where performance, flexibility, ease of integration and system cost control are required. The LAN9116 has been architected to provide the best price-performance ratio for any 32-bit application with medium-high performance requirements. The LAN9116 is fully IEEE 802.3 10BASE T and 802.3u 100BASE-TX compliant.

PRODUCT FEATURES

Highlights

■ Member of LAN9118 Family; optimized for medium high performance applications

■ Easily interfaces to most 32-bit and 16-bit embedded CPU’s

■ Efficient architecture with low CPU overhead

■ Integrated PHY

■ Supports audio & video streaming over Ethernet: 1-2 high-definition (HD) MPEG2 streams

■ Medium-high speed member of LAN9118 Family (all members are pin-compatible)

Target Applications

■ Medium-range Cable, satellite, and IP set-top boxes

■ Digital video recorders and DVD recorders/players

■ High definition televisions

■ Digital media clients/servers and home gateways

■ Video-over IP Solutions, IP PBX & video phones

■ Wireless routers & access points

Key Benefits

■ Non-PCI Ethernet controller for medium-high performance applications

   — 32-bit interface

   — Burst-mode read support

■ Eliminates dropped packets

   — Internal buffer memory can store over 200 packets

   — Supports automatic or host-triggered 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

   — Low-cost, low--pin count non-PCI interface for embedded designs

■ 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 Ethernet PHY

   — Auto-negotiation

   — Automatic polarity detection and correction

■ High-Performance host bus interface

   — Simple, SRAM-like interface

   — 32/16-bit data bus

   — Large, 16Kbyte FIFO memory that can be allocated to RX or TX functions

   — One configurable host interrupt

■ Miscellaneous features

   — Low profile 100-pin TQFP package; green, lead free package also availaible

   — Integral 1.8V regulator

   — General Purpose Timer

   — Support for optional EEPROM

   — Support for 3 status LEDs multiplexed with Programmable GPIO signals

■ 3.3V Power Supply with 5V tolerant I/O

■ 0 to 70°C

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