Non-PCI gigabit Ethernet controller

Hello there,

I wonder whether somebody provide non-PCI gigabit Ethernet controller.

I mean a Ethernet transceiver with PHY and MAC that can interface a
DSP, or a microcontroller to Ethernet communication.

It seems most gigabit Ethernet controller are communicating to PCI bus.

Thanks for the help,

DS

Hi,

> I wonder whether somebody provide non-PCI gigabit Ethernet controller.

Not sure but doesnt Xilinx have an IP core for their CPLD/FPGA's for Gigabit 
Ethernet?
Worth a look.
As for an off the shelf chip, I havent seen one but that doesnt mean they 
dont exist. :-)

Oliver Hannaford-Day
www.cdtv.org.uk 

DigitalSignal wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I wonder whether somebody provide non-PCI gigabit Ethernet controller.
> 
> I mean a Ethernet transceiver with PHY and MAC that can interface a
> DSP, or a microcontroller to Ethernet communication.
> 
> It seems most gigabit Ethernet controller are communicating to PCI bus.
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> 
> DS
> 

There are plenty of chipsets that do that.

Of course, one chip of the set is a PCI controller :)

Seriously, I have seen plenty of applications where they just threw a
PCI interface chip next to the controller chip and went to town.

Thanks for the reply. Could you give me an example of the PCI interface
chip? My DSP is TMS320C67xx. It is a "standard" 32 bit DSP.

DigitalSignal wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Could you give me an example of the PCI interface
> chip? My DSP is TMS320C67xx. It is a "standard" 32 bit DSP.
> 

We used to use the Galileo Technologies chip. A quick search to their
web page, wwww.galileot.com, shows that they apparently have been
eaten by a company called marvell. Try their communications
controller family, or perhaps call them and ask what they did
with the Galileo products. The last PCI stuff I worked on was a PC
chipset from AMD (build into the Opteron CPU). I am sure there are
other vendors as well.

Luck !

PS. I am a software guy, but you could do worse than to use the PCI system
as a bridge in any case. It is not just a bus, but an entire pheriperal
management system, with an organized method to discover and retrive
information on devices, and the means to configure and address them.

On 14 Apr 2005 15:41:46 -0700, "DigitalSignal"
<digitalsignal999@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hello there,
>
>I wonder whether somebody provide non-PCI gigabit Ethernet controller.
>
>I mean a Ethernet transceiver with PHY and MAC that can interface a
>DSP, or a microcontroller to Ethernet communication.
>
>It seems most gigabit Ethernet controller are communicating to PCI bus.
>
>Thanks for the help,
>
>DS

I know this just adds a different problem, but you can get USB 1.1 or
USB 2.0 dongles that interface to gigabit ethernet.

There is no "x" in my email address.

Steve Calfee wrote:
> On 14 Apr 2005 15:41:46 -0700, "DigitalSignal"
> <digitalsignal999@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello there,
>>
>>I wonder whether somebody provide non-PCI gigabit Ethernet controller.
>>
>>I mean a Ethernet transceiver with PHY and MAC that can interface a
>>DSP, or a microcontroller to Ethernet communication.
>>
>>It seems most gigabit Ethernet controller are communicating to PCI bus.
>>
>>Thanks for the help,
>>
>>DS

Look for any of the standard PC/ISA-bus chips (i.e. SMSC 91C111 or
Realtek xyz)

- Rene

On Saturday, in article
     <42617699$0$1154$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch> spam@see5.ch
     "Rene" wrote:

>Steve Calfee wrote:
>> On 14 Apr 2005 15:41:46 -0700, "DigitalSignal"
>> <digitalsignal999@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Hello there,
>>>
>>>I wonder whether somebody provide non-PCI gigabit Ethernet controller.
>>>
>>>I mean a Ethernet transceiver with PHY and MAC that can interface a
>>>DSP, or a microcontroller to Ethernet communication.
>>>
>>>It seems most gigabit Ethernet controller are communicating to PCI bus.
>>>
>>>Thanks for the help,
>>>
>>>DS
>
>Look for any of the standard PC/ISA-bus chips (i.e. SMSC 91C111 or
>Realtek xyz)

What the poster was looking for was Gigabit chips not 10baseT.

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DigitalSignal <digitalsignal999@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I wonder whether somebody provide non-PCI gigabit Ethernet controller.
> 
> I mean a Ethernet transceiver with PHY and MAC that can interface a
> DSP, or a microcontroller to Ethernet communication.
> 
> It seems most gigabit Ethernet controller are communicating to PCI bus.
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> 
> DS
> 

-- 
	Sander

+++ Out of cheese error +++

The speed is critical to my application. In addition I thought "giga"
sounds more advanced than "mega".