Industrial Gigabit Ethernet chip range brings certified compliance, fault-tolerance
This suite of products aims to reduce complexity and remove barriers in deploying high-speed networks. The GigEpack claims the industry’s first single-chip Gigabit Ethernet switches with integrated HSR/DLR redundancy for ultra-high reliability in critical manufacturing applications. Also included is the first automotive-grade USB 3.1 Gen 1 to Gigabit Ethernet bridge which supports Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and infotainment systems on a variety of physical network layers.
The portfolio of products, designed for industrial, automotive and consumer applications, includes three elements intended to ensure ease of use and fast time to market. First, all products are UNH-IOL (University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory) certified. Second, all products come with free software drivers that are certified or third-party approved for use with all major operating systems running on smartly engineered, copy-ready evaluation boards. Finally, the GigEpack suite is backed by Microchip’s free LANCheck online design service that reviews customer designs, ensuring that best design practices are used.
The GigEpack suite of products includes three product families. The KSZ9477/9567/9897 switch family includes features that allow users to create ultra-reliable networks with HSR/DLR redundancy and transport audio and video with Audio/Video Bridging (AVB). The KSZ9567 switch, for example, has seven ports, an SGMII interface and also features EtherSynch technology, providing support for real-time Ethernet, IEEE 1588 v2 precision time protocol (PTP), AVB, and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN). The LAN7800/LAN7850/LAN7801 bridge family enables designers to add Gigabit Ethernet to embedded processors via USB 3.1 Gen 1, USB 2.0 or High Speed Inter-Chip (HSIC) bridging to a variety of physical layers such as 1000Base-T, or 100Base-T1 and HDBaseT via RGMII. These products join Microchip’s existing KSZ9031 family of Gigabit PHYs.
The KSZ9477/9567/9897 switch products, in TQFP packages start at $6.07; the LAN7800/7850/7801 products in QFN packages start at $3.65; and the KSZ9031 PHY products in QFN packages start at $1.77 (all 10,000).
Microchip; www.microchip.com/GigEpack
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