Micrel, Inc. KS8999 network access. The major benefits of using the KS8999 are the lower power consumption, unmanaged operation, flexible configuration, built in frame buffering, VLAN abilities and traffic priority control. Two such applications are depicted below. System Level Applications The KS8999 can be configured to fit either in an eight port 10/100 application or as a nine port 10/100 network interface with an extra MII/7-wire port. This MII/7-wire port can be connected to an external processor and used for routing purposes or public Figure 1. System Applications January 2005 6 KS8999
