At 11:56 PM 2/3/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>*>> I'm just curious if anyone here has had any experience with using
>*>RTL8019 chip?
>*>> If I purchase this chip and mount it on my own pcb will the RTL8019
>*>require any programming like a PIC, or is it a pre-programmed chip that I
>*>can interface directly to a PIC with minimum effort?
>
>The RTL8019 is a well known ethernet chip that is a NE2000 clone. It has
>no memory on chip and uses programmed IO for communication afair. This
>requires a zippy cpu and lots of programming to make it work.

The often-used RTL8019AS has 16K bytes of SRAM built-in.

Best regards,

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