Microchip Technology LAN9115-MT

General Description

The LAN9115 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 LAN9115 has been architected to provide the best price-performance ratio for any 16-bit application with medium performance requirements. The LAN9115 is fully IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T and 802.3u 100BASE-TX compliant.
The LAN9115 includes an integrated Ethernet MAC and PHY with a high-performance SRAM-like slave interface. The simple, yet highly functional host businterface provides a glue-less connection to most common 16-bit microprocessors and microcontrollers as well as 32-bit microprocessors exposing a 16-bit external bus. The LAN9115 includes large transmit and receive data FIFOs to accommodate high latency applications. In addition, the LAN9115 memory buffer architecture allows the most efficient use of memory resources by ptimizing packet granularity.

PRODUCT FEATURES

Highlights
■ Member of LAN9118 Family; optimized for medium performance applications
■ Easily interfaces to most 16-bit embedded CPU’s
■ Efficient architecture with low CPU overhead
■ Integrated PHY; supports external PHY via MII interface
■ Supports audio & video streaming over Ethernet: multiple standard-definition (SD) MPEG2 streams
■ Medium-speed member of LAN9118 Family(all members are pin-compatible)

Target Applications
■ Printers, kiosks, security systems
■ General embedded applications
■ Audio distribution systems
■ Basic Cable, satellite, and IP set-top boxes
■ Video-over IP Solutions, IP PBX & Video Phones
■ Wireless routers & access points
■ Digital video recorders

Applications

The LAN9115 is well suited for many medium-performance embedded applications, including:
■ Printers, kiosks, POS terminals and security systems
■ Audio distribution systems
■ General embedded systems
■ Basic cable, satellite and IP set-top boxes Vioce-over-IP solutions