General Description

DAVICOM’s DM9161C is a physical layer, low power, and single-chip 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX

transceiver specifically designed for consumer electronics, industrial, and enterprise applications. Through using a CMOS process, the DM9161C has the advantage of ensuring both high performance and savings in power consumption.

Features

Fully complies with IEEE 802.3 / IEEE802.3u 10Base-T/ 100Base-TX, ANSI X3T12 TP-PMD 1995 standards

Support HP MDI/MDI-X auto crossover function (HP Auto-MDIX)

Support Auto-Negotiation function, compliant with IEEE 802.3u

Fully integrated Physical layer transceiver On-chip filtering with direct interface to magnetic   transformer

Selectable repeater or node mode 

Selectable MII or RMII (Reduced MII) mode for 100Base-TX and 10Base-TX. Selectable MII or GPSI (7-Wired) mode for 10Base-T

Selectable full-duplex or half-duplex operation

MII management interface with mask-able interrupt output capability

Provide Loopback mode for easy system diagnostics

LED status outputs indicate Link/ Activity, Speed10/100 and Full-duplex/Collision. Support Dual-LED optional control

Single low power Supply of 3.3V with an advanced CMOS technology

Lower Power consumption modes:

o Power Reduced mode (cable detection)

o Power Down mode

o Selectable TX drivers for 1:1 or 1.25:1 transformers for additional power reduction. 1.25: 1

transformers only when HP Auto-MDIX Disable.

Compatible with 3.3V and 5.0V tolerant I/Os

Pin to pin Compatible with DM9161A/B

DSP architecture PHY Transceiver.

48-pin LQFP- 0.18um process