Ethernet Controller
From Kurobox Central
One of the main differences between the Kurobox and the Kurobox HG is the Ethernet controller. The Kurobox has a ADMtek AN983B 10/100 Ethernet controller, while the Kurobox HG has a Realtek RTL8110S-32 10/100/1000 Ethernet controller.
[edit] ADMtek AN983B
- Integrated 10Base-T and 100Base-TX PHY
- High Performance DMA architecture
- Early Tx/Rx Interrupt and Burst Tx packet Interrupt to reduce CPU utilization
- Supports Wake-on-LAN and remote wakeup (Magic Packet, Link Change, and Microsoft Wake-up frame)
- IEEE 802.3 10Base-T compliant
- IEEE 802.3u 100Base-TX compliant
- Supports IEEE 802.3u 10 Mb/s and 100Mb/s N-way auto-negotiation
- Supports IEEE 802.3x Flow Control
- ACPI and PCI Power Management Rev 1.1 compliant
- PC99 Wake on LAN support
- Provides 10, 100, Link, and Duplex LEDs
- Provides an interface to both the 93C46 and 93C66 EEPROMs
[edit] Realtek RTL8110S-32
- Integrated 10/100/1000 transceiver
- Auto-Negotiation with Next page capability
- Supports PCI 2.2, 32bit, 33/66MHz
- Supports pair swap/polarity/skew correction
- Crossover Detection & Auto-Correction
- Wake-on-LAN and remote wake-up support
- Microsoft® NDIS5 Checksum Offload (IP, TCP, UDP) and largesend offload support
- Supports Full Duplex flow control (IEEE 802.3x)
- Fully compliant with IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab
- Supports IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging
- Serial EEPROM
- 3.3V signaling, 5V PCI I/O tolerant
- Transmit/Receive FIFO (8K/64K) support
- Supports power down/link down power saving
- JTAG support
- Supports PCI Clock Run Pin
- 128-pin QFP
