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USING THIS DOCUMENT
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Revision
Release Date Summary
2015/02/17
2015/04/01
2015/09/29
First release.
Revised section 8 Mechanical Dimensions, page 29.
Revised note in Table 7 LED Pins, page 7.
Revised section 5.5 Clock Pins, page 6.
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1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION..............................................................................................................................................1
FEATURES.........................................................................................................................................................................3
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SYSTEM APPLICATIONS...............................................................................................................................................4
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PIN ASSIGNMENTS .........................................................................................................................................................4
PACKAGE IDENTIFICATION...........................................................................................................................................4
PIN DESCRIPTIONS.........................................................................................................................................................5
POWER MANAGEMENT PIN ..........................................................................................................................................5
5.1.
SPI (SERIAL PERIPHERAL INTERFACE) FLASH PINS .....................................................................................................5
5.2.
EEPROM PINS ............................................................................................................................................................5
5.3.
TRANSCEIVER INTERFACE PINS....................................................................................................................................6
5.4.
CLOCK PINS .................................................................................................................................................................6
5.5.
REGULATOR AND REFERENCE PINS..............................................................................................................................6
5.6.
LED PINS.....................................................................................................................................................................7
5.7.
5.8.
POWER AND GROUND PINS ..........................................................................................................................................7
GPIO PIN.....................................................................................................................................................................7
5.9.
5.10. USB INTERFACE PINS ..................................................................................................................................................8
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION.......................................................................................................................................9
USB INTERFACE ..........................................................................................................................................................9
6.1.1. USB Configurations................................................................................................................................................9
6.1.2. Endpoint 0 ..............................................................................................................................................................9
6.1.3. Endpoint 1 Bulk-IN.................................................................................................................................................9
6.1.4. Endpoint 2 Bulk-OUT.............................................................................................................................................9
6.1.5. Endpoint 3 Interrupt-IN..........................................................................................................................................9
CUSTOMIZABLE LED CONFIGURATION......................................................................................................................10
PHY TRANSCEIVER ...................................................................................................................................................12
6.3.1. PHY Transmitter...................................................................................................................................................12
6.3.2. PHY Receiver .......................................................................................................................................................12
6.3.3. Link Down Power Saving Mode ...........................................................................................................................13
6.3.4. Next Page .............................................................................................................................................................13
EEPROM INTERFACE................................................................................................................................................13
6.4.
SPI (SERIAL PERIPHERAL INTERFACE) FLASH............................................................................................................14
6.5.
POWER MANAGEMENT...............................................................................................................................................14
6.6.
LINK POWER MANAGEMENT (LPM) ..........................................................................................................................15
6.7.
PROTOCOL OFFLOAD .................................................................................................................................................15
6.8.
6.9. WAKE PACKET DETECTION (WPD) ...........................................................................................................................16
6.10.
‘REALWOW!’ (WAKE-ON-WAN) TECHNOLOGY ......................................................................................................16
6.11.
ENERGY EFFICIENT ETHERNET (EEE)........................................................................................................................16
LAN DISABLE MODE.................................................................................................................................................16
6.12.
6.13. ALWAYS ON ALWAYS CONNECTED...........................................................................................................................17
6.14.
SWITCHING REGULATOR............................................................................................................................................17
6.15.
LDO REGULATOR......................................................................................................................................................17
6.16. DRIVER AUTO-INSTALL MODE ..................................................................................................................................18
7. CHARACTERISTICS......................................................................................................................................................19
ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM RATINGS ................................................................................................................................19
RECOMMENDED OPERATING CONDITIONS .................................................................................................................19
CRYSTAL REQUIREMENTS..........................................................................................................................................20
OSCILLATOR REQUIREMENTS ....................................................................................................................................20
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ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS ........................................................................................................................21
DC CHARACTERISTICS...............................................................................................................................................21
REFLOW PROFILE RECOMMENDATIONS .....................................................................................................................22
AC CHARACTERISTICS...............................................................................................................................................22
SPI EEPROM Interface Timing............................................................................................................................22
7.8.1.
7.8.2. TWSI EEPROM Interface Timing.........................................................................................................................23
SPI Flash Commands ...........................................................................................................................................25
7.8.3.
7.8.4.
SPI Flash Interface Timing...................................................................................................................................27
7.8.5.
SPI Flash Type Supported....................................................................................................................................28
8. MECHANICAL DIMENSIONS......................................................................................................................................29
9. ORDERING INFORMATION........................................................................................................................................30
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TABLE 1. POWER MANAGEMENT PIN ...........................................................................................................................................5
TABLE 2. SPI FLASH PINS ............................................................................................................................................................5
TABLE 3. EEPROM PINS .............................................................................................................................................................5
TABLE 4. TRANSCEIVER INTERFACE PINS ....................................................................................................................................6
TABLE 5. CLOCK PINS..................................................................................................................................................................6
TABLE 6. REGULATOR AND REFERENCE PINS ..............................................................................................................................6
TABLE 7. LED PINS......................................................................................................................................................................7
TABLE 8. POWER AND GROUND PINS ...........................................................................................................................................7
TABLE 9. GPIO PIN......................................................................................................................................................................7
TABLE 10. USB INTERFACE PINS ..................................................................................................................................................8
TABLE 11. LED SELECT (OCP REGISTER OFFSET DD90H~DD91H)...........................................................................................10
TABLE 12. CUSTOMIZED LEDS ...................................................................................................................................................10
TABLE 13. FIXED LED MODE .....................................................................................................................................................10
TABLE 14. LED FEATURE CONTROL-1........................................................................................................................................11
TABLE 15. LED FEATURE CONTROL-2........................................................................................................................................11
TABLE 16. LED OPTION 1 & OPTION 2 SETTINGS .......................................................................................................................11
TABLE 17. EEPROM INTERFACE................................................................................................................................................13
TABLE 18. SPI FLASH INTERFACE ...............................................................................................................................................14
TABLE 19. ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM RATINGS ................................................................................................................................19
TABLE 20. RECOMMENDED OPERATING CONDITIONS .................................................................................................................19
TABLE 21. CRYSTAL REQUIREMENTS..........................................................................................................................................20
TABLE 22. OSCILLATOR REQUIREMENTS ....................................................................................................................................20
TABLE 23. ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS ........................................................................................................................21
TABLE 24. DC CHARACTERISTICS...............................................................................................................................................21
TABLE 25. REFLOW PROFILE RECOMMENDATIONS .....................................................................................................................22
TABLE 26. SPI EEPROM ACCESS TIMING PARAMETERS............................................................................................................23
TABLE 27. TWSI EEPROM ACCESS TIMING PARAMETERS........................................................................................................24
TABLE 28. SPI FLASH COMMANDS..............................................................................................................................................25
TABLE 29. SPI FLASH ACCESS TIMING PARAMETERS .................................................................................................................27
TABLE 30. SPI FLASH TYPES SUPPORTED ...................................................................................................................................28
TABLE 31. ORDERING INFORMATION ..........................................................................................................................................30
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FIGURE 1. PIN ASSIGNMENTS.......................................................................................................................................................4
FIGURE 2. SPI EEPROM INTERFACE TIMING ............................................................................................................................22
FIGURE 3. TWSI EEPROM INTERFACE TIMING-1.....................................................................................................................23
FIGURE 4. TWSI EEPROM INTERFACE TIMING-2.....................................................................................................................23
FIGURE 5. TWSI EEPROM INTERFACE TIMING-3.....................................................................................................................24
FIGURE 6. TWSI EEPROM INTERFACE TIMING-4.....................................................................................................................24
FIGURE 7. WREN/WRDI COMMAND SEQUENCE.......................................................................................................................25
FIGURE 8. READ COMMAND SEQUENCE.....................................................................................................................................25
FIGURE 9. PAGE PROGRAM COMMAND SEQUENCE ....................................................................................................................26
FIGURE 10. SECTOR/BLOCK ERASE COMMAND SEQUENCE .........................................................................................................26
FIGURE 11. CHIP ERASE COMMAND SEQUENCE ..........................................................................................................................26
FIGURE 12. SPI FLASH INTERFACE TIMING .................................................................................................................................27
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1. General Description
The Realtek RTL8153-VC-CG 10/100/1000M Ethernet controller combines a triple-speed IEEE 802.3
compliant Media Access Controller (MAC) with a triple-speed Ethernet transceiver, USB 3.0 bus
controller, and embedded memory. With state-of-the-art DSP technology and mixed-mode signal
technology, the RTL8153-VC offers high-speed transmission over CAT 5 UTP cable or CAT 3 UTP
(10Mbps only) cable. Functions such as Crossover Detection and Auto-Correction, polarity correction,
adaptive equalization, cross-talk cancellation, echo cancellation, timing recovery, and error correction are
implemented to provide robust transmission and reception capabilities. The RTL8153-VC features
embedded One-Time-Programmable (OTP) memory
the external EEPROM
(93C46/93C56/93C66/TWSI).
The RTL8153-VC features USB 3.0 to provide higher bandwidth and improved protocols for data
exchange between the host and the device. USB 3.0 also offers more advanced power management
features for energy saving.
Advanced Configuration Power management Interface (ACPI)—power management for modern
operating systems that are capable of Operating System-directed Power Management (OSPM)—is
supported to achieve the most efficient power management possible. In addition to the ACPI feature,
remote wake-up (including AMD Magic Packet and Microsoft Wake-Up Frame) is supported in both
ACPI and APM (Advanced Power Management) environments.
The RTL8153-VC supports Microsoft Wake Packet Detection (WPD) to provide Wake-Up Frame
information to the OS, e.g., PatternID, OriginalPacketSize, SavedPacketSize, SavedPacketOffset, etc.
WPD helps prevent unwanted/unauthorized wake-up of a sleeping computer.
The RTL8153-VC supports ‘RealWoW!’ technology to enable remote wake-up of a sleeping PC through
the Internet. This feature allows PCs to reduce power consumption by remaining in low power sleeping
state until needed.
Note: The ‘RealWoW!’ service requires registration on first time use.
The RTL8153-VC supports Protocol offload. It offloads some of the most common protocols to NIC
hardware in order to prevent spurious wake-up and further reduce power consumption. The RTL8153-VC
can offload ARP (IPv4) and NS (IPv6) protocols while in the D3 power saving state.
The RTL8153-VC supports the ECMA (European Computer Manufacturers Association) proxy for
sleeping hosts standard. The standard specifies maintenance of network connectivity and presence via
proxies in order to extend the sleep duration of higher-powered hosts. It handles some network tasks on
behalf of the host, allowing the host to remain in sleep mode for longer periods. Required and optional
behavior of an operating proxy includes generating reply packets, ignoring packets, and waking the host.
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The RTL8153-VC supports IEEE 802.3az-2010, also known as Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE). IEEE
802.3az-2010 operates with the IEEE 802.3 Media Access Control (MAC) Sublayer to support operation
in Low Power Idle mode. When the Ethernet network is in low link utilization, EEE allows systems on
both sides of the link to save power.
The RTL8153-VC is fully compliant with Microsoft NDIS5, NDIS6 (IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP) Checksum
features, and supports IEEE 802 IP Layer 2 priority encoding and IEEE 802.1Q Virtual bridged Local
Area Network (VLAN). The above features contribute to lowering CPU utilization, especially benefiting
performance when in operation on a network server.
The RTL8153-VC is suitable for multiple market segments and emerging applications, such as desktop,
mobile, workstation, server, communications platforms, docking station, and embedded applications.
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Features
Integrated 10/100/1000M transceiver
2.
Hardware
Auto-Negotiation with Next Page capability
Supports USB 3.0, 2.0, and 1.1
Supports CDC-ECM
Supports LPM (Link Power Management),
U1/U2/U3 at SuperSpeed, and L1/L2 at
HighSpeed
Supports pair swap/polarity/skew correction
Crossover Detection & Auto-Correction
Supports Wake-On-LAN and ‘RealWoW!’
(Wake-On-WAN) Technology (see note 1)
Supports ECMA-393 ProxZzzy Standard for
sleeping hosts (see note 1)
Note 1. Select between RealWoW! or ECMA,
only one feature can be active at a time.
Supports power down/link down power
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EEPROM Interface
Embedded OTP memory can replace
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Built-in switching regulator and LDO
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Supports Customizable LEDs
Supports hardware CRC (Cyclic
Redundancy Check) function
LAN disable with GPIO pin
Supports 25MHz or 48MHz clock source
SPI Flash Interface
Supports Legacy PXE (eHCI and xHCI) &
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Offload (IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP) and
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Supports jumbo frame to 9K bytes
IEEE
Supports Full Duplex flow control
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Fully compliant with IEEE 802.3,
IEEE 802.3u, and IEEE 802.3ab
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Supports IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging
Supports IEEE 802.3az-2010 (EEE)
Microsoft AOAC (Always On Always
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Supports 16-set 128-byte Wake-Up Frame
pattern exact matching
Supports link change wake up
Supports Microsoft WPD (Wake Packet
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Dynamic LTM messaging (USB 3.0)
Supports U1/U2/U3 (USB 3.0)
Supports selective suspend
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