Fast, Low-Power Ethernet PHY Offers Four MII Ports

Oct. 1, 1998
Offering four independent Media Independent Interface (MII) ports for switch applications and shared hubs, these PHY (physical protocol) devices are for 100FX/TX Fast Ethernet. The low-power, low-latency devices interface with fiber or copper physical

Offering four independent Media Independent Interface (MII) ports for switch applications and shared hubs, these PHY (physical protocol) devices are for 100FX/TX Fast Ethernet. The low-power, low-latency devices interface with fiber or copper physical medium dependent (PMD) applications and work beyond 130 meters in conjunction with other copper PMD devices. P12C6040 100FX/TX Fast Ethernet PHY offers four independent ports that can be used by switch or repeater controllers and has an option for bypassing 4b/5b encoding/decoding that lets it work with repeater controllers having 5-bit symbol interfaces. P12C6050 uses four-port internal multiplexing to reduce the number of pins needed to interface to the repeater controller, which eliminates the need for an external buffer.

Company: PERICOM SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.

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