NIC that supports RGMII

[dimeor]

Does anyone know of an ethernet card that supports RGMII on both the MAC and PHY. I've looked around and found transceivers from Broadcom that support RGMII, but I can't find specific cards that explicitely state support.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[imagoon]

More info is needed. Your talking about the connection between the physical layer and the controller. Are you looking for a card that has a removable PHY or something?

 

[Pheran]

Yeah, sorry but this question makes no sense. You would only care about RGMII (something so obscure I had to look it up) if you manufacture motherboards or ethernet cards.

 

[imagoon]

Yeah, sorry but this questions makes no sense. You would only care about RGMII (something so obscure I had to look it up) if you manufacture motherboards or ethernet cards.

Same here... I only once recall seeing it mentioned when talking about GBICs. On the web itself the only talks of it I see otherwise is in embedded systems.

 

[dimeor]

Thanks for the replies. I'm not very knowledgable in this area and needed to go talk to a coworker before replying back. We have a PHY on a developed board which apparently is only RGMII. So, as I understand, the ethernet card that we will use to connect to that needs to be RGMII. I'm sure I'm still misunderstanding some of this, but my coworker is pretty adament that this is what we need. Thanks for the help.

 

[imagoon]

Thanks for the replies. I'm not very knowledgable in this area and needed to go talk to a coworker before replying back. We have a PHY on a developed board which apparently is only RGMII. So, as I understand, the ethernet card that we will use to connect to that needs to be RGMII. I'm sure I'm still misunderstanding some of this, but my coworker is pretty adament that this is what we need. Thanks for the help.

If you have a PHY on the board then you need to buy a MAC.

http://www.altera.com/products/ip/iup/ethernet/ipm-index.jsp

There is more than altera but at least that gives you something to look at.

Example:

triple speed one here:

http://www.altera.com/products/ip/iup/ethernet/m-alt-ethernet-mac.html

This is assuming you want copper. Optical/radio MACs also exist.

Please note these are all surface mount chips. I expect you have those tools if you are working with PHYs.

Check Silicon Labs, Broadcom and Intel also. They all make MAC IC's.