Electronic – Single pair ethernet (SPE) PHY with ESP32

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can I connect this Single Pair Ethernet PHY http://www.ti.com/product/DP83TC811R-Q1 to a ESP32 chip? Do I miss something?

Does anyone already know a Switch for Single Pair Ethernet?

Looking forward to your input.

Best Answer

Can I connect this Single Pair Ethernet PHY DP83TC811R-Q1 to a ESP32 chip?

NO.

The DP83TC811R-Q1 is a PHY implementation, and it connects to a MAC implementation driven by an Ethernet controller. To support this chip on an ESP32 would require that you select a MAC chip and connect that to the PHY.....but beyond that you need an Ethernet controller to build the protocol packets to be serialized.

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