final publication# 18565 rev: a amendment/ 0 issue date: february 1994 PCNET-32-KT am79c965 based evaluation kits for vesa vl-bus systems distinctive characteristics n based on the pcnet-32 (am79c965) 32-bit single-chip ethernet controller n two evaluation kit options available: PCNET-32-KT/2 with 10base-t and 10base2 ports PCNET-32-KT with 10base-t port n implements a full functional ethernet node using a vesa vl-bus system as host n ethernet adapter card utilizing a high performance, low-cost, bus-master architecture (ne2100) n software compatible with all pcnet family members n software drivers support all popular network operating systems n includes evaluation board, software driver diskettes and supporting documentation general description the pcnet-32 evaluation kit is an evaluation vehicle for the am79c965 pcnet -32 single chip ethernet con- troller. there are two versions of the kit available for evaluation. the PCNET-32-KT supports the 10base-t (twisted pair) connection, while the PCNET-32-KT/2 supports both the 10base2 (cheapernet) connection and the 10base-t connection on the evaluation card. the evaluation board, when installed in a vesa local-bus host system, provides a platform for demon- strating the high performance design of the pcnet-32 device, the low manufacturing cost of a pcnet-32 based solution and the overall ease of design. the plat- form further allows the user to evaluate network hard- ware and to develop software for an ethernet node based on the pcnet-32. in addition to the evaluation board, the kit comes with software diskettes, a hardware user s manual, the pcnet family network driver installation guide , and device datasheet and the pcnet family technical man- ual . the software includes driver object codes for novell netware odi dos and os/2, netware lite, mi- crosoft windows nt, windows for workgroups, lan manager, banyan vines client, ibm lan server, sco unix, artisoft lantastic/ai, dec pathworks, and packet driver. also included are two utility programs, one for con?uration of the network adapter card and software driver installation, and one for eeprom con- ?uration. in addition, amd provides a low-level evaluation pro- gram to establish connections and send and receive messages. the evaluation program allows the user to view and change the contents of the pcnet-32 regis- ters, the memory resident initialization block, and the data buffer descriptor rings. the program also allows the designer to establish loops for hardware probing. the pcnet family con?uration and installation utility program, aminstall, provides an easy user interface to view the con?uration of the pcnet-32 evaluation board. the utility program will automatically scan the system bus(es), which may include isa, vl, or pci to ?d the installed pcnet device. this utility program will identify amd s pcnet-isa, pcnet-isa + , pcnet-32, and pcnet-pci devices. with the con?uration portion of the program, the utility allows the user to select the i/o address, irq channel, dma channel, and boot rom address for the pcnet-32 device. after con?uration, the user may use the installation portion of the utility to install a selected driver by copying the appropriate driver from the amd diskette and create or modify the config.sys, autoexec.bat, and protocol.ini or net.cfg ?es on the user s system. the pcnet-32 evaulation board stores the unique ieee physical address in the serial eeprom. once powered up , the am79c965 device reads the node s ieee physical address from the eeprom through the mi- crowire interface protocol. the eeprom utility pro- gram allows the user to change the bus con?uration options such as burst length, fifo thresholds, i/o loca- tion, etc. for more details about the pcnet-32 single chip ethernet controller, refer to the am79c965 pcnet-32 data sheet (pid#18219) and pcnet family technical manual (pid# 18216).
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