The VSC8244 is the industry's smallest, lowest power quad port Gigabit Ethernet (GE) transceiver for low-cost RGMII and RTBI switch and router applications. In 1000BASE-T mode, the VSC8244's power consumption is 30% lower than the next best competitor. The device's compact 19mm x 19mm BGA package is ideal for high-density switch applications. Microchip's mixed signal and DSP architecture yields robust performance, supporting both full and half duplex 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T over >140m of Category 5, unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable, with industry leading tolerance to NEXT, FEXT, Echo, and system noise.

• Patented, low EMI line driver with integrated line-side termination resistors
• User-programmable RGMII timing compensation
• Supports greater than 10 kB Jumbo frames with programmable synchronization FIFOs
• VeriPHY™ link cable diagnostics software suite