ATMEL AT76C511 Dual ethernet to ieee 802.11b wlan bridgeon-on-a-chip(dew-b) Datasheet

Features
• Wireless Interface Following the IEEE 802.11b Standard
• Two Ethernet MAC Units (EMU) Interfaces with 10/100 Mbits Ethernet Physical Layer
Transceivers through Standard MII Ports
• Dual ARM7TDMI® RISC Processor Architecture
• Inter-networking ARM7TDMI (INWARM) with 16 Kbytes Program and Data Cache
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Controls the Ethernet MAC Units and Provides the Bridging Functions between
Ethernet and Wireless Interfaces
WLAN ARM7TDMI (WLANARM) with a Dedicated 32 Kbytes Program Memory
Coordinates the 802.11b MAC Functionality
802.11b MAC Unit with 512-byte Transmit and 128-byte Receive FIFOs
SDRAM Interface Supporting up to 256 MBytes of External Memory Shared between
Both Processors
32-bit DMA Channels Are Used for Data Packet Transfers between the SDRAM and the
MAC Units
Enciphering/Deciphering of Wireless Data On-the-fly Ensures Maximum Privacy of
Data
SPI Interface and Eight GPIO Pins that Can Be Used As Slave-Select Pins
A Bootstrap ROM Is Used in the Initialization Phase by the WLAN ARM® to Execute a
Code Downloading Procedure from an SPI Flash to Its Internal Program Memory
UART with 16-byte Receive and Transmit FIFO and Programmable Baud Rate up to
921 Kbaud
Supports 802.1f (IAPP) and Tap-Dance™ (Atmel proprietary roaming protocol)
2.5 V for Core and 3.3 V for I/O
Different Packages, Depending on the Requirements
Dual Ethernet to
IEEE 802.11b
WLAN Bridgeon-a-Chip
(DEW-B)
AT76C511
Summary
Block Diagram
Decoder/Arbiter/
Bridge #2
Cache
Memory
UART
External
Memory
Interface
Internal
Memory #1
WLAN
ARM Core
(WLANARM)
Common Memory
Interface Controller
Inter-networking
ARM Core
(INWARM)
Timers,
Interrupt
Controller #2
SPI
Ethernet
Processor 0
MAC
Support Unit
(MSU)
Ethernet
Processor 1
Decoder/Arbiter/
Bridge #1
Timers,
Interrupt
Controller #1
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Overview
The AT76C511 Dual Ethernet to Wireless LAN Bridge (DEW-B) is a single-chip solution
for interconnecting a Wireless LAN conforming to IEEE 802.11b standard with other
Wireless LANs (WLANs) and legacy LANs.
A DEW-B-based bridge acts as an Access Point (AP) for the 802.11 WLAN and coordinates the traffic of the packets that are destined outside the WLAN using IP over
Ethernet. In case the WLAN user is mobile, roaming functions are also supported at the
DEW-B bridge. Its Dual Ethernet MAC architecture is useful in applications where bridging or routing is required between a public network through high speed links like an
XDSL modem and the customer premises network area where both WLAN and Ethernet
connections coexist. Figure 1 shows the topology described above which includes wireless and wired stations communicating through an Ethernet backbone and incorporating
the DEW-B, common Ethernet bridges and simple WLAN AP like the VNET-B
(AT76C510). It is also shows how this Customer Premises Network (CPN) can access
the Internet through a modem link (ADSL).
The data transactions over this unified CPN environment are categorized according to
the type of end-to-end devices.
End Stations Transactions
When two end stations communicate (irrespective to the type of network they belong)
the inter-networking between the different networks should be transparent.
Inter-networking Device
Transactions
The DEW-B device implements all necessary communication protocols for supporting
inter-networking functions, implements logical grouping of users independent of their
physical location and provides secure links by implementing encryption algorithms.
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