The KSZ8995FQ five-port Ethernet switch from Micrel targets applications with low port counts like industrial Ethernet, managed media converters, and fiber to the premises (FTTP) customer premise equipment (CPE) where low bill of materia
The KSZ8995FQ five-port Ethernet
switch from Micrel targets applications
with low port counts like industrial
Ethernet, managed media converters,
and fiber to the premises (FTTP) customer
premise equipment (CPE) where
low bill of materials (BOM) costs are
essential. It includes five full 10/100-Mbit/s
transceivers, five media access control (MAC)
units, a high-speed non-blocking switch fabric,
a dedicated address lookup engine, and
an on-chip frame buffer memory.
The KSZ8995FQâ??s ports support the usual
10BaseT and 100BaseTX 802.3 standards.
Two of the ports also handle 100BaseFX,
which is the fiber version. Designers can use
the chip to build loop applications using
two fiber ports to cascade a ring while using
the media independent interface (MII) on
another port to the CPU/host.
