page_title: AMD Lance Am7990
section_title: Uses
hierarchical_section_title: AMD Lance Am7990 / Uses
caption_attribution_description: English: Am7990DC Ethernet controller from SGI IP6 mainboard
context_page_description: AMD Lance Am7990 IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Media Access Controller controller were introduced in 1985. Its architecture is the basis for AMD’s PCnet Family of highly integrated single-chip Ethernet controllers. The one exception is the Am79C940 MAC.
  The Am7990 chip was fabricated in NMOS technology and has no integrated Manchester encoder/decoder nor does it have an integrated 10BASE-T transceiver.
context_section_description: Amiga 2065 the first Ethernet controller for Amiga computer family. Uses the Zorro-II bus interface and equipped with the NMOS Am7990 chip.
  MicroVAX Q-Bus Ethernet controllers (like the DELQA).
  DECstation 2100/3100 MIPS architecture motherboard Ethernet.
  DEC 3000 AXP 64-bit Alpha AXP architecture motherboard.
  AT&T Unix PC, AT&T 7300, and 3B1 computers could have an expansion card that provided Ethernet via this chipset. AUI only.
  SGI Personal Iris MIPS R3000 IP6 motherboard.
  Sun Microsystems Sun Hydra 3/80, SPARCstation 1, SPARCstation 2, and SPARCstation IPX computer motherboard.
  Whitechapel Computer Works MG-1 NS32016-based motherboard Ethernet.
  Various x86-Personal computer ISA network interface cards (some called NE1500 and NE2100). Under Unix operating systems like FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Linux the device driver is usually called le(4).
  QEMU emulating Sun-4 architecture (sun4m) virtual network interface.
  GXemul with le(4) emulating ARM, MIPS, M88K, PowerPC, and SuperH CPU. One example architecture is DECstation 5000 (3max).
caption: AMD Am7990DC from SGI IP6 motherboard.
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