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The company's products include Ethernet transceivers, SimpliPHY Ethernet transceivers, Enterprise switch product line and Ethernet Media Access Controllers.

The announced CMTS chipset from Broadcom includes the BCM3215 QAMLink(R) octal downstream DOCSIS modular CMTS (M-CMTS(TM)) core media access controller (MAC) and the BCM3216 QAMLink DOCSIS 3.

The chip integrates Protocol Adaptation Layers, a Media Access Controller (MAC), a baseband processor, RF transceivers, and USB2.

The new products have the following features: (1) Integrated Ethernet media access controller (MAC) channel, eliminating the need for an external Ethernet controller; (2) Up to 512 kilobytes (KB) of flash memory and up to 124 KB of random access memory (RAM), making it possible to run network software using on-chip memory alone; (3) Peripheral functions including full speed USB 2.

264, and AVS streams, and a physical layer device that is coupled with an Ethernet media access controller.

By combining 10/100 Ethernet media access controller with a 32-bit RISC processor and 16 x 16 integer DSP onto a single chip, Hitachi provides a cost-effective solution for network-enabled embedded products such as Internet protocol telephones, residential gateways, Internet appliances, printers, and security and industrial devices.

This family of products integrates a CMOS RF front-end, media access controller (MAC), baseband processor (BBP) and host interface into a single chip that fully complies with IEEE 802.

Microchip said the Ethernet controllers combine a 10/100Base-TX physical interface (PHY) and a Media Access Controller (MAC) with a hardware cryptographic security engine, and can connect to any PIC microcontroller via an industry-standard Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) or a flexible parallel interface.