10/100BASE-TX OCTAL-Φ™ TRANSCEIVER

The Broadcom BCM5238 is a single-chip device containing eight independent Fast Ethernet transceivers. Each performs all the physical layer functions for 100BASE-TX full- or half-duplex Ethernet on Category 5 UTP cable and 10BASE-T full- or half-duplex Ethernet on Category 3, 4, or 5 UTP cable. The BCM5238 chip performs encoding and decoding, clock and data recovery, digital adaptive equalization, line transmission, carrier sense and link integrity monitoring, autonegotiation and RMII/SMII management functions. The BCM5238 is compliant with the IEEE 802.3 standard.

FEATURES
• Single-chip, eight-port Fast Ethernet transceiver
• Low-power 1.8V CMOS technology
• Serial Media Independent Interface (SMII)
• Source Synchronous SMII (SSSMII)
• HP Auto-MDIX automatic crossover
• Supports 10BASE-T Polarity Correction
• Compatible with 2.5V I/O and 3.3V I/O
• Fully integrated digital adaptive equalization
• Up to 150 meters of error-free operation
• Full-duplex support
• Interrupt output capability
• 128-pin PQFP or 256-ball BGA package
• Proven Broadcom proprietary all-DSP Digi-Φ™ architecture