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Can I use an Ethernet switch IC without connecting to the mcu?
I'd like to add an unmanaged Ethernet switch IC to a board I am designing, but I have no free RGMII/SGMII/PCIe connection available on my MCU. The goal of this IC is just to save space/hassle (in the ...
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How to connect CPU with RGMII pins to an LTE module that takes only SGMII signals?
The Hi3519 Hisilicon CPU has RGMII pins. We are trying to connect it to the EC21 LTE Module from Quectel which contains SGMII pins. Would using two Realtek RTL8201F-VB-GG PHY chips with magnetics ...
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Does SGMII use MDIO?
I was reading the SGMII specification and the documentation of a Gigabit MII to SGMII converter (see MAX24287). I do not see a MDIO to control the registers of the PHY (Basic Mode Status Register, ...