Microchip ENC28J60T-I/SS, Ethernet Controller, 10Mbps SPI, SPI, 3.3 V, 28-Pin SSOP

The ENC28J60 from Microchip is a great stand-alone ethernet controller. ENC28J60 is a 10BASE-T controller in a small form factor SOIC package with 28 pins. Featuring bandwidth of 10Mbps and onboard MAC & PHY, this controller is great for a range of applications. Microchips ethernet controllers also contain internal DMA for faster memory copying and a max speed of 25Mhz.

PHY stand for 'Physical layer'. A physical layer is the first layer in an OSI stack. PHY layer will define physical and electrical characteristics of the network.

MAC is the abbreviation for 'Medium Access Control' and is the second layer in the OSI stack. The MAC is responsible for sending and receiving RF frames.

The Microchip ENC28J60 28-pin, 10BASE-T stand alone Ethernet Controller has on board MAC & PHY, 8 Kbytes of Buffer RAM and an SPI serial interface. With a small foot print package size the ENC28J60 minimizes complexity, board space and cost. Target applications include VoIP, Industrial Automation, Building Automation, Home Control, Security and Instrumentation.

Integrated MAC and 10BASE-T
8 Kbyte Transmit/Receive Packet Dual Port Buffer
Programmable Automatic Retransmit on Collision
Internal DMA for fast memory copying
Programmable wake-up on multiple packet formats, including Magic Packet®, Unicast, Multicast, Broadcast, specific packet match or any packet
Hardware assisted IP checksum
Programmable pattern matching of up to 64 bytes within packet at user defined offset
Temperature range between -40°C and 85°C
SSOP (Plastic Shrink Small Outline) package

Ethernet Communications - Microchip