RE: [ethmac] Cheap Ethernet PHY???

[Tal Weiss <tal@congruency.co.il>]

Try the Kendin KS8721 chip....

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hanoch [mailto:jeff@lowrance.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 4:03 PM
To: ethmac@opencores.org
Subject: [ethmac] Cheap Ethernet PHY???

Hi all,

I am quite new to ethernet hardware.  My next ASIC design may need to support ethernet 10baseT, so I was looking at your Ethernet MAC.  The problem I am seeing is that the cheapest PHYs I am seeing have only 1 bit data busses.  Being an ethernet newbie, I have not yet found out if this is a problem.  Will it work with your MAC which has 4 bit data busses?  The only PHYs I have seen that have 4 data bits are very expensive.  We do high volume consumer electronics, so I call anything over $5 expensive.  Intel has a part listed for $3.74/1K in Digi-Key.  But it has the 1 bit data pins.

If a 1 bit data bus will not work, does anyone know of an inexpensive PHY that I may have missed which will work with your core?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jeff