The VIA Rhine VT6107 Fast Ethernet controller is a cutting edge, feature-rich, single-ASIC solution for LAN-on-motherboard applications. By optimizing the throughput between the NIC and the PCI bus, the VT6107 drastically reduces CPU utilization and allows a transfer rate of up to 200 Mbps in full-duplex. The VT6107 supports advanced power management features for low power consumption, including Wake on LAN (WOL), and is implemented in a low power CMOS process.
Key Features
- Pin- to -pin compatible with the VIA Networking Technologies Velocity VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet Controller.
- Single-chip Fast Ethernet network interface controller (NIC) for PCI bus
- PCI 2.2 specification compliant
- 10/100 Mbps Ethernet communications
- High Performance PCI Mastering Structure
- On-chip bus master DMA
- Transmit data buffer byte-alignment for low CPU utilization
- Dynamic transmit packet auto-queuing for back-to-back transmission
- Programmable activity polling intervals for description DMA
- Programmable DMA arbitration priority to minimize overflow and underflow conditions
- Supports PCI enhanced commands
- Provides Standard 10Base-T/ 100Base-TX/ PHY Layer and Transceiver
- Supports 10Base-T/100Base-TX with CAT5 UTP and STP
- 10/100 Mbps N-way auto-negotiation
- 10/100 Mbps full/half duplex operation
- Supports MDI/MDIX auto-crossover
- Automatic power saving for disconnected cables
- Programmable LED outputs for link, activity, duplex, speed, and collision
- Direct Programming EEPROM and Virtual EEPROM
- Supports loading after power-up
- Dynamic auto-reload
- Dynamic direct programming for manufacturing
- Supports loading from Virtual EEPROM
- emBoot PXE Certification
- Power management
- Supports PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification 1.0/1.1
- Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) Specification 2.0
- Supports Network Device Class Power Management Specification 1.0a
- Wake-up event support link change / magic packets / unicast physical address / MS-defined pattern match
- Flow Control
- Supports IEEE 802.3X for full duplex
- Multiple pause frame Xon/Xoff
- Dual-power design: 3.3V I/O Power and 2.5V Core Power
- 128-pin, 14 x 14 mm, EP-LQFP package
