ThunderLAN controller adds power management
End-equipment applications
- Network interface cards
- PC motherboards
- PC Cardbus
Low power consumption
- Low power CMOS technology
VDD 5-V
- 3-V/5-V I/O operation (with integrated 10 Base-T
Phy)
Standards supported
- Green PC
- PCI specification 2.1 compatible with reduced
power support
- Microsoft Power Management, Microsoft On Now™,
PC 97™
- Remote wake-up capabilities
- Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
TI has announced sampling of its new ThunderLAN-Power
Management™ (PM) chip, the industry's first 100 Mbps Ethernet
controller that enables a system solution for remote control of
PCs using industry standard network management facilities.
This technology is used to remotely wake up a sleeping
PC on the network, thereby improving the energy efficiency of
the end users product.
The ThunderLAN-PM chip -- TNETE100PM -- is compatible
with Microsoft's OnNow and PC 97 initiatives, the Microsoft/Intel/Toshiba
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification,
PCI 2.1 reduced power support and Magic Packet™ remote wake-up
detection.
The ThunderLAN™ family of chips are the only
Media Access Control (MAC) devices in the industry that allow
users to support all of the following protocols with a single
device and a single software driver, thus future-proofing high-speed
Ethernet:
- 10Base-T
- 10Base-2
- 10Base-5
- 100Base-TX
- 100Base-T4
- 100VG-AnyLAN
- 100Base-Fx
Samples of the ThunderLAN-PM chip will be available
in both PQFP and TQFP packages in September with volume production
in 4Q96. The TNETE100PM chip is backward or footprint compatible
with the current TNETE100 chip.
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