
21145
Preliminary
 Datasheet
1
1.0
Introduction
This manual contains detailed electrical and mechanical specifications for the 21145 Phoneline/
Ethernet LAN Controller.
1.1
Manual Organization
This manual contains the following.
 Section 1.0
, “Introduction”, provides a general description of the 21145 and an overview of the 
hardware components.
 Section 2.0
 “Pinout and Signal Descriptions”, provides the physical layout of the 21145 and 
describes each of the input and output signals.
 Section 3.0
 “Electrical and Environmental Specifications”, describes the 21145’s electrical and 
environmental specifications.
 Section 4.0
 “Mechanical Specifications”, includes the 21145 144-pin and 176-pin package 
marking and mechanical specifications.
1.2
General Description
The 21145 is an Ethernet/HomePNA LAN controller for both 100 Mb/s and 10 Mb/s data rates, 
that integrates a HomePNA PHY for 1 Mb/s data rate home networking on telephone lines. The 
21145 provides a direct interface to the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) local bus or to 
the CardBus. The 21145 interfaces to the host processor by using onchip command and status 
registers (CSRs) and a shared host memory area, set up mainly during initialization. This 
minimizes processor involvement in the 21145 operation during normal reception and 
transmission.
The 21145 also incorporates a modem interface, and can operate with a wide range of modem 
chipsets available in the marketplace.
The 21145 is optimized for low power PCI/CardBus based systems and supports a power-management 
mechanism based upon the OnNow architecture for Microsoft’s 
PC 97 Hardware Design Guide, 
PC 98 Hardware Design Guide, and PC 99 Hardware Design Guide
.
Large FIFOs allow the 21145 to efficiently operate in systems with longer latency periods. Bus 
traffic is also minimized by filtering out received runt frames and by automatically retransmitting 
collided frames without a repeated fetch from the host memory. The 21145 provides an upgradable 
expansion ROM interface.
The 21145 provides these network interfaces: 
 10BASE-T 10 Mb/s port 
 HomePNA port
 A media-independent/symbol interface (MII/SYM) 10/100 Mb/s port
The 10BASE-T port provides a direct Ethernet connection to the twisted-pair (TP) interface. The 
HomePNA port provides a direct interface to a telephone line at a rate of 1 Mb/s.