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78Q8430 Driver Manual for ST5100/OS-20 with NexGen TCP/IP Stack

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1 Introduction

The Teridian Semiconductor Corporation (TSC) 78Q8430 is a single chip 10/100 Ethernet MAC and PHY
controller supporting multi-media offload. The device is optimized to enhance throughput and offload
network protocol tasks from the host processor for demanding multi-media applications found in Set Top
Boxes, IP video, and Broadband Media Appliances.

This document describes the 78Q8430 software device driver for ST/OS-20. The document is based on
the following driver software version:

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SW Revision TSC8430B_V1.01, 03/07/2008.


A 78Q8430 Demo Board (D8430T3B_STEM) is available to support development of embedded
applications in conjunction with an ST STi5100 IPSTB development platform and ST ST20R2.0.5 SW
tools. The 78Q8430 ST/OS-20 device driver includes the operating system (OS) and platform
independent files and the OS and platform (CPU, board) dependent files. The ST/OS-20 device driver
uses a specific configuration of the OS and platform which is dependent on the generic Teridian Ethernet
device driver. This driver runs on the STi5100 IPSTB hardware platform with the NexGen TCP/IP
protocol stack for IP video streaming demo application software.