PCNet™ - PRO

10/100Mbps Ethernet Controllers and PHYs
		PCNet™ - PRO
		PCNet™ - FAST III
		PCNet™ - FAST+
		NetPHY-1LP
		NetPHY-4LP
1/10Mbps Ethernet Controllers and PHYs
		PCNet™ - Home
		HomePHY
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Ethernet Controllers Product Matrix
PCnet™ Family

Product Name		PCnet™ - PRO	PCnet™ - Fast III	PCnet™ - FAST+

Part Number		Am79C976	Am79C973 / Am79C975	Am79C972

Bus Interface		PCI	PCI	PCI
	Data Bus Width	32 bit	32 bit	32 bit
	Plug-n-Play Support	X	X	X
	3.3V/5V PCI Bus Support	X	X	X
	PCI Subsystem Vendor ID Support	X	X	X
	PCI Power Management (PME) Pin	X	X	X

Full Duplex		X	X	X

Flow Control		X

VLANs		Supported in Software-Hardware Assist	Supported in Software	Supported in Software

Bandwidth		10/20Mbps 100/200 Mbps	10/20Mbps 100/200 Mbps	10/20Mbps 100/200 Mbps

Integrated DMA Engine		X	X	X

Buffer Size		Programmable sizes up to 4 MByte with external SSRAM	Programmable 12kByte on chip	Programmable 12kByte on chip

Expansion Memory Support		Boot ROM or Flash	Boot ROM or Flash	Boot ROM or Flash

Integrated Encoder/Decoder			X

Media Transceiver
	10BASE-T	Supported by MII	Integrated	Supported by MII
	10BASE 2/5/F
	10BASE TX/FX	Supported by MII	Integrated	Supported by MII
	100BASE-TX	Supported by MII	Integrated	Supported by MII

Power Management
	Magic Packet™ Technology	X	X	X
	OnNow/ACPI Support	X	X	X
	PCI Bus Power Management	X	X	X

Clock Source		External 25Mhz Crystal	External 25Mhz Crystal	Integrated 20MHz Oscillator

Power Supply		3.3V	3.3V	3.3V
	Full Active current		210mA	100mA
	Sleep Mode current
	Magic Packet™ current		150 mA(CLK=0Mhz) 180 mA(CLK=33Mhz)

Packaging/Pin Count		PQFP/ 208	PQFP/ 160 TQFP/ 176	PQFP/ 160 TQFP/ 176

Industrial Temperature (-40C to +85C)		X		X

Little/Big Endian		Programmable	Programmable	Programmable

GPSI				X

JTAG Support		X	X	X

RTOS Support
	Windows NT	Planned	X	X
	Windows CE	Planned	X	X
	LynxOS (Lynx Real-Time Systems)	Planned		X
	Nucleus NET (Accelerated Tech., Inc.)			Planned
	pSOS (Integrated Systems, Inc.)	Planned	X	X
	QNX (QNX Software Systems Ltd)	Planned	X	X
	Vx Works (WindRiver Systems)	Planned	X	X
	LINUX TNT (phar Lap Software, Inc.)	X	X	X
	USNET (US Software)		Planned	Planned
	KwikNet (Kadak Products Ltd)
	FUSION (Pacific Softworks Corp)			Planned

Evaluation Kit		PCnet-PRO-KT	PCnet-FastIII-KT	PCnet-FASTPLUS- KT

NOS Software Support
AMD provides an extensive suite of software drivers which support the ENTIRE family of PCnet controllers. This software is provided free of charge for unlimited, royalty-free distribution with your PCnet controller-based product.

Microsoft	Novell	SCO	IBM	SunSoft and other

Windows NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows 2000 WfW 3.1, 3.11 LAN Manager 2.x	Netware* 3.1x, 4x, 5x IntraNetware 1.0	UnixWare 7 UnixWare 2.0 (DLPI) UNIX 3.2.4 (ODT 3.0) UNIX OpenServer 5.0	LAN Server 2.0, 3.x, 4.0 OS/2 Warp	SunSoft PCNFS 5.x SunSoft Solaris 2.x Artsoft LANtastic 6.0 Banyan Vines 5.5x Client DOS FTP Packet Driver