Realtek RTL8185L 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Interface Controller Overview


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Features

  • 128-Pin E-pad TQFP
  • State machine implementation without external memory (RAM, flash) requirement
  • Complies with IEEE 802.11a/b/g standards
  • Supports descriptor-based buffer management
  • Integrated Wireless LAN MAC and Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum/OFDM Baseband Processor in one chip
  • Enhanced signal detector, adaptive frequency domain equalizer, and soft-decision Viterbi decoder to alleviate severe multipath effects
  • Processing Gain compliant with FCC
  • On-Chip A/D and D/A converters for I/Q Data, AGC, and Adaptive Power Control
  • Targets Multipath Delay Spreads of 125ns at 11Mbps
  • Supports both transmit and receive Antenna Diversity
  • Data rates of 1, 2, 5.5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, and 54Mbps. Turbo mode supports 72Mbps
  • Supports CardBus. The CIS can be stored in a 93C56
  • Supports 40MHz OSC as the internal clock source. The frequency deviation of OSC must be within 25 PPM on IEEE 802.11g and 20 PPM on IEEE 802.11a
  • Complies with PC97, PC98, PC99, and PC2001 standards
  • PCI local bus network interface controller
    • Complies with PCI Revision 2.2 and MiniPCI Revision 1.0
    • PCI power management Revision 1.1
    • PC Card Revision 8.2
    • Supports PCI clock 20MHz~36MHz
    • Supports PCI target fast back-to-back transactions
    • Supports Memory Read Line, Memory Read Multiple, Memory Write and Invalidate
    • Provides PCI bus master data transfers and PCI memory space or I/O space mapped data transfers of the RTL8185L’s operational registers
    • Supports PCI VPD (Vital Product Data)
    • Supports ACPI, PCI power management
  • Supports Wake-On-LAN (WOL) function and remote wake-up (Magic Packet and Microsoft® wake-up frame)
  • Supports 4 WOL signals (active high, active low, positive pulse, and negative pulse)
  • Supports auxiliary power auto-detect, and sets the related capability of power management registers in PCI configuration space
  • IEEE 802.11g protection mechanisms for both RTS/CTS and CTS-to-self
  • Burst-mode support for dramatically enhanced throughput
  • Supports jumbo frames
  • DSSS with DBPSK and DQPSK, CCK modulations and demodulations supported with long and short preamble
  • OFDM with BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM modulations and demodulations supported with rate compatible punctured convolutional coding with coding rate of 1/2, 2/3, and 3/4
  • Efficient IQ-imbalance calibration, DC offset, phase noise, frequency offset and timing offset compensation reduce analog front-end impairments
  • Selectable digital transmit and receiver FIR filters provided to meet transmit spectrum mask requirements and to reject adjacent channel interference
  • Programmable scaling both in transmitter and receiver to trade quantization noise against the increased probability of clipping
  • Fast receiver Automatic Gain Control (AGC) & antenna diversity functions
  • Adaptive transmit power control function
  • Hardware-based IEEE 802.11i encryption/decryption engine, including 64-bit/128-bit WEP, TKIP, and AES
  • Programmable PCI burst size for both read and write commands
  • Supports a 32-bit general-purpose timer with the external PCI clock as clock source
  • Contains two large independent transmit and receive FIFO buffers
  • Advanced power saving mode when the LAN and wakeup function are not used
  • Uses 93C46 (64*16-bit EEPROM) or 93C56 (128*16-bit EEPROM) to store resource configuration, ID parameter, and VPD data
  • LED pins for various network activity indications
  • Two GPIO pins supported
  • Supports digital loopback capability on both ports
  • Flexible RF transceiver interface for different RF transceiver applications
  • Scatter and gather operation
  • 3.3V and 1.8V power supplies required
  • 5V tolerant I/Os
  • 0.18μm CMOS process

Applications

  • PCI/CardBus WLAN adapter
  • Wireless router