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20 years ago

Searching Ethernet MAC with MII

Hi! I've a serious problem in finding a compatible MAC for Intel's LXT971ALE transceiver. The reason is simple: The transceiver has only a 4 bit datavector. But all MACs I found jus...
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20 years ago

I'm confused as to what you want; do you want a MAC or a PHY? You specified a transceiver, which is a MII compliant PHY (plenty of these).... but then you also say MAC. The LXT971ALE part is a MII PHY, not a MAC... so what I think you want is a simple PHY, such as the DP83848 by National Semi.