On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 09:24 -0500, Charles Craft wrote:
> Not sure how to ask this but you get the idea.
> 
> Is it the guts of the chip that use so much power or the ethernet magnetics that it drives?
> Does current draw depend on if it's connected to another device? Transmit draw more?

In my experience it's the chip itself, I can't see the magnetics
consuming much power, otherwise they would get physically warm (they
don't).

It's a 25MHz chip with a bunch of stuff going on, with a bunch of beefy
IO drivers, 250mA at 3.3V is small IMHO for that sort of thing.

TTYL

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