Microchip | KSZ8695P

Micrel Inc., is a leading manufacturer of IC solutions for the worldwide analog, Ethernet and high bandwidth markets. The Company's products include high performance analog, power, advanced mixed-signal and radio frequency semiconductors; high-speed communication, clock management, Ethernet switch and physical layer transceiver integrated circuits. These products address a wide range of rapidly growing end markets including cellular handsets, portable and enterprise computing, enterprise and home networking, wide area and metropolitan area networks and industrial equipment.

Micrel acquired Kendin Communications in June of 2001. The Ethernet product line has continued to evolve and grow with the market. Micrel's Controllers are known for robust performance, interoperability and low power.

The CENTAUR KS8695P, Multi-Port PCI Gateway Solution, delivers a new level of networking integration, performance, and overall BOM cost savings, enabling original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to provide customers with feature-rich, low-cost solutions for the residential gateway and small office environment.

Integration of a PCI arbiter supporting three external masters allows incorporation of a variety of productivity enhancing system interfaces, including the expanding 802.11 a/g/b wireless LAN.  High-performance ARM9TM CPU with 8KB I-cache, 8KB D-cache, and a memory management unit (MMU) for Linux and WinCE® support. XceleRouterTM technology to accelerate packet processing. Proven wire-speed switching technology that includes 802.1Q tag-based VLAN and quality of service (QoS) support. Five patented, mixed-signal, low-powered Fast Ethernet transceivers with corresponding media access control (MAC) units. Advanced memory interface with programmable 8/16/32-bit data and 22-bit address bus with up to 64MB of total memory space for Flash, ROM, SRAM, SDRAM, and external peripherals.