MX98715AEC-E

`A single chip solution integrates 100/10 Base-T fast Ethernet MAC, PHY and PMD.
`Microsoft PC97, 98, 99 and Novell 4.11/5.0 certified.
`Support DMI 2.0 management.
`Support Intel PXE remote boot device.
`Fully comply to IEEE 802.3u specification
`Operates over 100 meters of STP and category 5 UTP cable
`Fully comply to PCI spec. 2.1 with clock frequency up to 33MHz
`Fully comply to Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) Rev 1.1
`Fully comply to PCI Bus Power Management Inter- face spec. Rev 1.1
`Support full and half duplex operations in both 100 Base-TX and 10 Base-T mode
`Supports 3 kinds of wake up events defined in Net- work Device Class Power Management Spec 1.0. Including:
   -Magic Packet<sup>TM</sup>
   -Link Change(link-on)
   -Wake Up Frame
`Supports IEEE802.3x Frame Based Flow Control scheme in full duplex mode.
`Supports early interrupt on both transmit and receive operations.
`100/10 Base-T NWAY auto negotiation function
`Large on-chip FIFOs for both transmit and receive operations without external local memory
`Bus master architecture with linked host buffers deliv- ers the most optimized performance
`32-bit bus master DMA channel provides ultra low CPU utilization, best fit in server and windows appli- cation.
`Proprietary Adaptive Network Throughput Control (ANTC) technology to optimize data integrity and throughput
`Support up to 64K bytes boot ROM interface
`Three levels of loopback diagnositic capability
`Support a variety of flexible address filtering modes with 16 CAM address and 128 bits hash
`MicroWire interface to EEPROM for customer's IDs and configuration data
`Single +5V power supply, CMOS technology, 128-pin PQFP package/LQPF package

The MX98715AEC-E controller is an IEEE802.3u com- pliant 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-E's PCI bus master architecture delivers the optimized performance for future high speed and powerful processor technologies.  In other words, the MX98715AEC-E not only keeps CPU utilization low while maximizing data throughput, but it also optimizes the PCI bandwidth providing the highest PCI bandwidth uti- lization.  To further reduce maintenance costs the MX98715AEC-E uses drivers that are backward com- patible with the original MXIC MX98713 series control- lers.

The MX98715AEC-E contains a PCI local bus glueless interface, a Direct Memory Access (DMA) buffer man- agement 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 sig- nal 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 auto-ne- gotiation, the MX98715AEC-E-based adapter allows a single RJ-45 connector to link with the other IEEE802.3u- compliant device without re-configuration.

In MX98715AEC-E, an innovative and proprietary de- sign "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-E can always optimize its operating bandwidth, network data integrity and throughput for different PCs.

The MX98715AEC-E features Remote-Power-On and Re- mote-Wake-Up capability and is compliant with the Ad- vanced Configuration and Power Interface version 1.0 (ACPI).  This support enables a wide range of wake-up capabilities, including the ability to customize the con- tent of specified packet which PC should be responded to, even when it is in a low-power state.  PCs and work- stations could take advantage of these capabilities of being waked up and served simultaneously over the net- work by remote server or workstation.  It helps organi- zations reduce their maintenance cost of PC network.

The 32-bit multiplexed bus interface unit of MX98715AEC-E provides a direct interface to a PCI lo- cal 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-E can also ad- dress non-PC applications.