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20 years ago

Anyone used new SMSC LAN9118 MAC/PHY yet?

Hi, Has anyone used new SMSC LAN9118 MAC/PHY yet? It addresses a lot of the shortcomings of the LAN91C111 and should be capable of much better performance. I'm considering it for a new de...
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20 years ago

Hi Mark,

we are the SMSC 9117 in a design as MAC/PHY. Its the small brother of the 9118 with a 16 bit databus. It offers some nice features. At the moment I'm writing driver for the chip. But no performance test are done yet.

I my eyes the configurable data alignment is one of the best feature. http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif

kind regards

Joern