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11/01/09 10:28
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#170309 - different PHY?
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Andy Neil said:
Jan Waclawek said:
I suspect one of the deliberately undocumented TEST pins might make the chip to bypass the internal PHY, outputting MII onto the general-purpose IO pins perhaps. Not that it is very useful, most probably used in factory testing only.

I s'pose a user might have specific requirements for a PHY that the on-chip one can't reach?

Or one might want to use a non-ethernet PHY; eg, WiFi...

I know nothing on WiFi (barely been able to set up an AP to serve our house :-) ), but I doubt you can simplly attach a radio (modulator) to standard MII... I may be wrong of course.

Nevertheless, a developer who wish to use a '51 with WiFi has choices, Nordic's nRF24LE1 and maybe some of the ChipCon(now TI)'s chips...

JW


List of 16 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
Fancy a '51 with TCP/IP?            01/01/70 00:00      
   Dead ?            01/01/70 00:00      
   Shame about the support?            01/01/70 00:00      
   waiting            01/01/70 00:00      
      DIY?            01/01/70 00:00      
         it's still more            01/01/70 00:00      
            Cortex-M3 comparison            01/01/70 00:00      
               PHY on-chip            01/01/70 00:00      
                  it saves I/O's!            01/01/70 00:00      
                     RMII            01/01/70 00:00      
                     to PHY or not to PHY            01/01/70 00:00      
                        It's not that easy to damage the PHY            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Reason for off-chip PHY            01/01/70 00:00      
                           different PHY?            01/01/70 00:00      
                              Wisdom of youth            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 Wiznet            01/01/70 00:00      

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