MX98715AEC-D

The MX98715AEC-D controller is an IEEE802.3u compliant single chip 32-bit full duplex, 10/100Mbps highly integrated Fast Ethernet combo solution, designed to address high performance local area networking (LAN) system application requirements.

MX98715AEC-D's PCI bus master architecture delivers the optimized performance for future high speed and powerful processor technologies. In other words, the MX98715AEC-D not only keeps CPU utilization low while maximizing data throughput, but it also optimizes the PCI bandwidth providing the highest PCI bandwidth utilization. To further reduce maintenance costs the MX98715AEC-D uses drivers that are backward compatible with the original MXIC MX98715 series controllers.

The MX98715AEC-D contains a PCI local bus glueless interface, a Direct Memory Access (DMA) buffer management unit, an IEEE802.3u-compliant Media Access Controller (MAC), large Transmit and Receive FIFOs, and an on-chip 10 Base-T and 100 Base-TX transceiver simplifying system design and improving high speed signal quality. Full-duplex operation are supported in both 10 Base-T and 100 Base-TX modes that increases the controller's operating bandwidth up to 200Mbps. Equipped with intelligent IEEE802.3u-compliant autonegotiation, the MX98715AEC-D-based adapter allows a single RJ-45 connector to link with the other IEEE802.3u-compliant device without re-configuration.

In MX98715AEC-D, an innovative and proprietary design "Adaptive Network Throughput Control" (ANTC) is built-in to configure itself automatically by MXIC's driver based on the PCI burst throughput of different PCs. With this proprietary design, MX98715AEC-D can always optimize its operating bandwidth, network data integrity and throughput for different PCs.

The MX98715AEC-D features Remote-Power-On and Remote- Wake-Up capability and is compliant with the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface version 1.0 (ACPI). This support enables a wide range of wake-up capabilities, including the ability to customize the content of specified packet which PC should respond to, even when it is in a low-power state. PCs and workstations waked up and served simultaneiously over the network by remote server or workstation. It helps organizations reduce their maintenance cost of PC network.

The 32-bit multiplexed bus interface unit of MX98715AEC-D provides a direct interface to a PCI local bus, simplifing the design of an Ethernet adapter in a PC system. With its on-chip support for both little and big endian byte alignment, MX98715AEC-D can also address non-PC applications.