LAN83C171

· IEEE 802.3 Compatible 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet Controller
· Fully Compliant Glueless PCI Version 2.1 Bus Interface
· Support Included for CardBus Status Registers
· PCI Universal 3V/5V Output Drives
· Preemptive Interrupt Support for Efficient Network Packet Processing
· High Performance Two Channel Bus Master (132 Mbps)
· Scatter/Gather DMA Capability
· Programmable Burst Length Counter
· ACPI Compliant for
  - PCI Bus Class Specification
  - Network Device Class Specification
· PC 97 Compliant
· Wake-Up on Magic PacketTM Detection and/or Network Link-Down Occurrence
· Special Low Power State Mode For Scanning Magic PacketsTM Upon PCI Bus Power Loss
· Supports Chaining of Transmit Packets
· Optional Early Transmit and Early Receive
· Optional Receive Lookahead Buffering Mode
· Automatic Rejection of Runt Packets
· Automatic Retransmission of Collision Frames from Internal Buffer
· Automatic Padding of Short Frames
· 4.5 Kbyte On-Chip Receive Buffer and 1.5 Kbyte On-Chip Transmit Buffer Eliminate Bus Latency Issues
· Optional Variable Depth, 32 Bit Wide External Receive Buffer (0, 16, 32 or 128 Kbytes)
· Big or Little Endian Byte Ordering
· Capable of Supporting 64 Kbyte Expansion Boot Flash RAM
· IEEE Standard MII Interface to Physical Layer
· Interface to LAN83C694 - Shares MII Pins
· Serial MII Management Interface
· Serial EEPROM Interface for Storage of LAN Address and Configuration Information
· On-Chip Clock Multiplier
· Low Power Sleep Mode
· Support for Full Duplex Ethernet
· Internal and External Loopback Diagnostic Functions
· Simple I/O Pin Mapping Scheme to Facilitate In-Circuit Test
· Single 5V Power Supply
· 208 Pin QFP Package
· Software Drivers to Operate with Major Operating Systems, Including:
  - NDIS 3.4 and 5 for Microsoft
  - DOS ODI for Novell

The LAN83C171 EPIC/XF is a high-performance and a low CPU utilization Ethernet network controller designed to interface directly to the PCI Local Bus on one side and to the 802.3 standard Media Independent Interface (MII) on the other side. The network interface can also be configured to communicate directly with the LAN83C694 10BASE-T transceiver.

The LAN83C171 implements 802.3 Media Access Control functions. It is capable of running at Ethernet rates of both 100Mb/s and 10Mb/s. An MII compliant serial management interface is provided to control external media dependent transceivers. The LAN83C171 is a two channel bus master (one for transmit, one for receive) capable of transferring data at the maximum PCI transfer rate of 132Mbps. The LAN83C171 has several features designed to minimize CPU utilization, including the optional Receive Lookahead Buffering Mode, which eliminates the need to re-copy the data from one host memory location to another.