ETC NET186-EVAL-KT

PRELIMINARY
Net186-EVAL-KT
Am186 ES and PCnet-ISA II Based Stand-Alone
Evaluation Platform
DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS
■ Am186 ES-40 MHz Microcontroller
— 80C186 compatibility
— Glueless interface to PSRAM, SRAM, FLASH,
and ROM memory systems
— Demultiplexed address/data bus
— Two DMA channels
— 32 programmable I/O (PIO) pins
■ Am79C961A PCnet-ISA II Ethernet Controller
— Single-chip Ethernet controller for direct
interface to ISA and EISA buses
■ Communication Ports
— Two RS-232 serial por ts driven by the
Am186ES via two DB-9 DCE connectors
— One 10Base-T Ethernet port driven by the
PCnet-ISA II via an RJ-45 connector
■ Expansion Bus
— Am186 Expansion Interface
■ Memory
— One 512Kbytes SRAM
— One 512Kbytes FLASH (Am29F400)
— Supports IEEE 802.3/ANSI 8802-3 Ethernet
standards
— Capable of addressing up to 1Mbytes of
FLASH software
— Supports full duplex operation on the
10Base-T, AUI and GPSI ports
— E86MON monitor program with source code
— Supports Magic Packet™ Technology for
waking up remote Ethernet nodes
— Utility programs for PCnet-ISA II with source
codes
— PAL equations for board setup
— Software compatible with Am7990/Am79C90
LANCE™/CLANCE™ register and descriptor
architecture
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Net186 evaluation board meets the needs of customers working with embedded networking control
applications using the Am186ES microcontroller and
the PCnet-ISA II single-chip Ethernet controller. This
board provides a complete stand-alone, microcontroller and Ethernet-based evaluation in a low-cost, exceptionally small form-factor product.
This evaluation board features the Am186ES, high-performance, 80C186-compatible, 16-bit embedded controller, and the PCnet-ISA II high performance, 16-bit,
single-chip Ethernet controller for ISA.
The microcontroller section consists of the Am186ES,
512 Kbytes FLASH and 512 Kbytes SRAM. The Ethernet section consists of a PAL for glue logic and the
Am79C961A PCnet-ISA II. The design takes advantages of the Bus Mastering capability of the PCnet-ISA
II to achieve high performance and low system cost,
while reducing the amount of software overhead on the
microcontroller.
Communication with the Net186 can be accomplished
through either one of the two RS-232 serial ports or
t h r o u g h t h e h i g h s p e e d 1 0 M b p s E t h e rn e t
10Base-T port.
Am186ES Microcontroller
The Am186ES microcontroller and its companion
Am188ES microcontroller integrate the functions of the
CPU, non-multiplexed address bus, three timers, a
watchdog timer, chip selects, interrupt controller, two
DMA controllers, PSRAM controller, asynchronous
serial ports, programmable bus sizing, and programmable I/O (PIO) pins on one chip. Compared to the
80C186/188 microcontrollers, the Am186ES and the
Am188ES microcontrollers can reduce the size, power
consumption, and cost of embedded systems, while increasing reliability, functionality, and performance.
The Am186ES and Am188ES microcontrollers are part
of the AMD E86 family embedded microcontrollers and
This document contains information on a product under development at Advanced Micro Devices. The information
is intended to help you evaluate this product. AMD reserves the right to change or discontinue work on this proposed
product without notice.
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Issue Date: April 1997
P R E L I M I N A R Y
microprocessors based on the x86 architecture. The E86
family includes the 80C186, 80C188, 80L186, 80L188,
Am186EM, Am188EM, Am186EMLV, and Am188EMLV
microcontrollers, as well as the Am386™SX,
Am386™DX, and Am486™DE microprocessors.
PCnet-ISA II Ethernet Controller
The Am79C961A PCnet-ISA II Ethernet controller, a single-chip Ethernet controller, is a highly integrated busmastering Ethernet controller with a built in ISA bus and
PHY layer (Manchester Encoder/Decoder and 10BaseT transceiver). The 16-bit ISA interface makes an ideal
straightforward connection to an x186 style local bus.
The PCnet-ISA II has two features which, while not implemented in the Net186, would be very useful for certain embedded networking control applications: full
duplex operation (making it possible to transmit and receive packets at the same time, for a combined bidirectional data transfer rate of up to 20 Mbps) and Magic
Packet Technology (making it possible to remotely wake
up a sleeping system on an Ethernet node).
The PCnet-ISA II is available in either 132-pin PQFP
(plastic quad flat package) or 144-pin TQFP (thin quad
flat package). The Net186 is available in the 144-pin
TQFP, specifically designed to reduce part count and
cost, and to address applications where higher system
throughput is desired.
The PCnet-ISA II Ethernet controller is part of the
AMD PCnet family of single-chip Ethernet controllers
based on the original LANCE/CLANCE architecture.
Other members include the Am79C965 PCnet-32 (for
VL or other general 32-bit bus environments) and the
Am79C970A PCnet-PCI II (for PCI bus environments). Like the PCnet-ISA II, the PCnet-32 and the
PCnet-PCI II are 10 Mbps Ethernet controllers. The
last member of the PCnet family is the Am79C971
PCnet-FAST, a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet controller.
BLOCK DIAGRAM
WR
RD
WHB
WLB
RESET
TL7705A RES
RD
WHB
WLB
WE
OE
BYTE
CE
UCS
29F400
(512Kb)
IOR IOW MEMR MEMW
DATA
79C961A
IRQ
IRQ
HOLD
HOLD
HLDA
HLDA
IOCHRDY
ARDY
2 Each
RS-232
+5 V
ADX
INT0
HLDA
MEMWR
MEMRD
OE
256X16 SRAM
(512Kb)
CE
RCS
UCS
186ES
20, 25
33, 40
MHz
WE
AEN
MCS0
DRQ
DACK
REF
IOCS16
SMEMR
10Base-T
N/C
RESET
IOCHRDY
AEN
20 MHz
LCS
+5 V
CLKA
SBHE
LCS
MASTER
WHB
WLB
RD
EEPROM
MEMWR
22V10
RCS
ADX0
2
4
MEMRD
Am186™ES
Trademarks
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AMD, the AMD logo, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Am186, Am386, Am486, Am29000, bIMR, eIMR, eIMR+, GigaPHY, HIMIB, ILACC, IMR, IMR+, IMR2, ISA-HUB, MACE, Magic Packet, PCnet,
PCnet-FAST, PCnet-FAST+, PCnet-Mobile, QFEX, QFEXr, QuASI, QuEST, QuIET, TAXIchip, TPEX, and TPEX Plus are trademarks of Advanced
Micro Devices, Inc.
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Product names used in this publication are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies.