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Lucent Technologies Inc.
HW3100/HW2000 Home Wire
Home Phoneline Networking Chip Set
Preliminary Product Brief
August 2000
Chip Set Features
(continued)
Modem Interface Features
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Provides line serial input/output (LSIO) interface for
V.90/V92 host-controlled modem support:
— Silicon DAA interface
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Compliant with the Device Class Specification as
defined in the PC99 Hardware Design Guide:
— Wake-on-ring support
Additional Chip Set Features
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Serial EEPROM interface
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LED support:
— Link activity
— Tx activity
— Rx activity
— Collision detect
— Carrier sense
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Microsoft Windows* 9x, Windows 2000, and Win-
dows NT* 5.0 driver support
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IEEE
1149.1 compliant JTAG test access port
Description
The Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group’s
HW3100/HW2000 Home Wire home phoneline net-
working chip set is a fully integrated, turnkey solution
designed to provide high-speed networking over exist-
ing residential telephone wiring.
The Home Wirechip set provides automatic rate adap-
tation, instantaneously adjusting to the changing elec-
trical characteristics of the home phoneline
communications channel, in order to select the optimal
speed which can reach a maximum of 16 Mbits/s.
* Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are registered trademarks of
Microsoft Corporation.
The two-device HW3100/HW2000 Home Wirechip set
fully supports the HomePNAInterface Specification
2.0. The HomePNAwas formed to develop specifica-
tions for interoperable, home-networked devices that
use the already-in-place residential telephone wiring,
regardless of the topology. The chip set is also fully
compliant with the HomePNAPHY Specification Revi-
sion 1.1, in order to provide backwards compatibility
with existing applications and home networks built
around the HomePNA1.1 technology.
In order to provide a robust, cost-effective, and simple-
to-use home phoneline networking solution, the Home
Wirechip set leverages the existing IEEE 802.3 MAC
protocol and existing Plug and Play TCP/IP based net-
working software stacks used in the Windows95, 98,
and WindowsNToperating systems. Up to 25 PCs,
peripherals, or network devices can be installed on a
single home phoneline network that can span up to
1000 feet between the two farthest points.
The HW3100/HW2000 Home Wirechip set is fully
compatible with existing phone services such as voice,
facsimile, V.90/V.92 modem connections, ISDN voice
and data, and ADSL. Products based on the Home
Wirechip set will not compromise or interrupt any of
these services. Frequency division multiplexing (FDM)
technology is used to simultaneously support existing
and emerging telephone services along with networked
HomePNAdata traffic. The frequency ranges for
HomePNAbased products have been carefully
selected to avoid interference from these various ser-
vices that may be encountered in a typical home. As
shown in Figure 1, signals from the Home Wirechip set
are centered at 7 MHz, with the signal ranging from
4.25 MHz to 9.75 MHz. This frequency range is well
above the frequencies used for existing phone ser-
vices.