Features • Integrates the IEEE 802.11b Physical Layer (Baseband) and the Media Access Controller (MAC) for Supporting Standard Rates up to 11 Mbps • Supports Antenna Diversity Algorithm, Automatic Receive Gain Control, Transmit Gain • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Control, Transmit Filter for Japanese Regulatory and Differential or Single-ended I- and Q- Baseband Signals Integrates 160 KBytes of SRAM Organized in Five Banks of 32 KBytes Each, Offering the Flexibility for Individually Configuring Each of Them as Program or Data Memory Zero Wait States for Program Execution Fast Data Transfers through DMA Channels Low-power ARM7TDMI® RISC Processor The BootsTrap Code Supports External SPI EEPROM for the Custom Configuration Parameters Used during the Device Enumeration Phase as Well as Default Parameters for First Time EEPROM Programming Glueless Parallel Flash Memory Interface, Supporting up to 128 KBytes of Nonvolatile Memory Glueless External SRAM Interface for All MAC Operations, Supporting up to 128 KBytes of External Memory Wired Equivalency Privacy (WEP) in Hardware Supporting 64-bit and 128-bit Keys Hardware Implementation of TKIP Hardware Implementation of AES Encryption Supporting Various Modes (CCM/CTR/CBC) The WLAN Functions Can Be Easily Changed or Updated to New Requirements Since They are Implemented in Microcode Supports 11 Mbps Rates with Automatic Fallback to 5.5, 2 and 1 Mbps SPI Interface and 13 GPIO Pins 176-ball LFBGA Package Low-voltage 1.8V Core Operation 802.11b Media Access Controller (MAC) and Baseband with PCI Interface AT76C506A Summary Block Diagram SPI Interface PCI Timers ARM7TDMI Decoder/ Arbiter/ Bridge MAC Support Unit (MSU) Interrupt Controller External Memory Interface Internal Memory (SRAM) Common Memory Interface Controller Boot ROM 802.11b Baseband Encryption/ Decryption Block Rev. 2390BS–WLAN–07/03 Note: This is a summary datasheet. A complete document is available under NDA. For more information, please contact your local Atmel Sales Office. 1 Description The AT76C506A is a single-chip baseband controller that can handle IEEE 802.11b standard compliant data rates of up to 11 Mbps and provides all processing and functionality needed for the MAC protocol of IEEE 802.11b. The AT76C506A is a slave PCI device that allows Host access to any memory location of the device. Power management support conforming to PCI Power Management Specification v1.1 is also provided so that the device can be used for mini PCI applications. The AT76C506A incorporates an ARM7TDMI processor using a sophisticated architecture to control the on-chip peripherals, manage the internal memory and allocate data queue buffers as well as to communicate with the host through the PCI parallel bus. The processor peripheral logic consists of a PCI bus interface, a Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), a MAC unit, a 802.11b baseband controller, a WEP/TKIP engine block, an AES engine block, two memory controllers and the ARM® subsystem consisting of an Interrupt Controller, two 32-bit timers and an address decoder unit. The ARM7TDMI core supports two alternative instruction sets. Powerful 32-bit code can be executed by the processor in ARM operating mode. However, a 16-bit instruction subset is also available in Thumb® mode. Thumb mode can be selected to exploit full processor power with limited external memory resources. 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