Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 11:57:09 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rompel <rompel@best.com> To: rompel@best.com (David Rompel), jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Newest Dec 100Mbit enet chip announce Message-ID: <199509271857.SAA11554@shellx.best.com> Resent-Message-ID: <15889.812232426@time.cdrom.com>
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Newsgroups: biz.digital.announce Path: shellx.best.com!news1.best.com!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!rjones From: pr-news@pa.dec.com (Digital Press & Analysts News) Message-ID: <9509251734.AA02840@raptor.pa.dec.com> Approved: rjones@pa.dec.com Subject: Press/Product Leadership For PCI Fast Ethernet Controllers Sender: rjones@usenet.pa.dec.com Date: Mon, 25 Sep 95 10:34:44 -0700 X-Received: by usenet.pa.dec.com; id AA23441; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 10:34:46 -0700 X-Received: by raptor.pa.dec.com; id AA02840; Mon, 25 Sep 95 10:34:45 -0700 X-To: Digital Press and Analysts News:; ; Lines: 124 |||||| Digital Press and Analysts News |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Digital Equipment Corporation Maynard, Massachusetts 01754-2571 Editorial contact: Lisa Lipson (508) 568-4352 DIGITAL ADDS TO PRODUCT LEADERSHIP FOR PCI FAST ETHERNET CONTROLLERS ...New 21140A PCI Fast Ethernet Chip Gains Features, Performance... MAYNARD, Mass., September 18, 1995 -- Digital Equipment Corporation today announced a new version of its PCI Fast Ethernet controller chip to link computers that use the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus to high-speed local area networks. The 21140A PCI Fast Ethernet controller offers new boot ROM memory support, full PCI V2.1 compliance, a new power management feature, improved performance, and full pin compatibility with the current 21140 chip. "Digital Semiconductor was the first PCI Ethernet chip vendor in the open market and is a leader in 100 megabit-per-second (Mbps) solutions for PCI-based systems," said William N. Johnson, vice president, Sales and Marketing for Digital Semiconductor, a Digital Equipment Corporation business. "With the improvements in our second PCI Fast Ethernet product, we are helping network interface card (NIC) and system manufacturers to drive down the cost of high-speed networking for customers." Both the 21140A and the 21140 chips provide cost-effective upgrade paths to 100BaseT networks for 10Mbps PCI Ethernet installations. The devices support internetworking applications such as Ethernet switching, bridges, and routers that require connection to Fast Ethernet. New Features The 21140A chip's new features include: o Boot ROM support for loading of remote code that enables NIC and system suppliers to include vendor- and application- specific differentiation; o A register function for subvendor identification code, in conformity with the PCI V2.1 specification; o Power management with sleep and snooze modes. An improved descriptor interrupt scheme improves chip performance and throughput. The 21140A chip is a 10Mbps/100Mbps dual-port, full-duplex controller that supports both 3.3-volt and 5-volt signals. Large, on-chip FIFO memories avoid the need for external buffers, and the DMA architecture saves CPU cycles for other tasks. The 21140A chip offers the same unified set of software drivers as the 21140, supporting NetWare, LANmanager, Windows NT, Windows 95, MS-DOS, OS/2, SCO UNIX, PATHWORKS, Digital UNIX, OpenVMS, and other environments. The 100Mbps port contains a complete media independent interface (MII) to support voice-grade, data-grade, shielded twisted pair, and unshielded twisted pair cabling in any TX or T4 installation. Price, Availability The 21140A PCI Fast Ethernet controller is priced at $23.30 in quantities of 5,000. Samples will be available in October and volume production is planned for January 1996. Evaluation kits, containing a PCI Ethernet evaluation board, sample drivers, schematics, and documentation, will be available this December. Digital Semiconductor, a Digital Equipment Corporation business headquartered in Hudson, Massachusetts, designs, manufactures and markets industry-leading semiconductor products including Alpha microprocessors and PCI chips for networking, bridging, and graphics/multimedia, as well as low-power StrongARM microprocessors under license from Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. Digital Semiconductor operates design centers in Hudson; Palo Alto, California; Austin, Texas; and Jerusalem, Israel. A new, $450-million fabrication facility in Hudson will begin revenue production in 1996. Mitsubishi Electric Company is a second source for Alpha microprocessors. Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together with industry- focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace. #### Note to Editors: Digital, the Digital logo, OpenVMS, and PATHWORKS are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation. NetWare is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks and LANmanager and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. OS/2 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. SCO is a registered trademark of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Ltd. StrongARM is a trademark of Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. CORP/96/004 ============================================================================ Electronic Editorial Contact: lipson@mr4dec.enet.dec.com ============================================================================ Digital Press and Analysts News is sent as a courtesy to members of the press, analyst and consulting community. For subscription information please contact: Russ Jones Digital Equipment Corporation Voice: 415-853-2145 FAX: 415-853-2265 Internet: pr-news@pa.dec.com All Digital press releases, fact sheets and backgrounders are archived on ftp.digital.com in the /pub/Digital/info/pr-news directory. They are also available at http://www.digital.com/ on the World Wide Web . ============================================================================
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