
RTL8100B(L) 
2001-11-9 
Rev.1.41 
6 
4. Pin Description 
4.1 Power Management/Isolation Interface 
Symbol 
Type 
Pin No 
PMEB 
(PME#) 
ISOLATEB 
(ISOLATE#)
Description 
O/D 
57 
Power Management Event:
 Open drain, active low. Used by the 
RTL8100B(L) to request a change in its current power management 
state and/or to indicate that a power management event has occurred. 
Isolate Pin:
 Active low. Used to isolate the RTL8100B(L) from the PCI 
bus. The RTL8100B(L) does not drive its PCI outputs (excluding 
PME#) and does not sample its PCI input (including RST# and 
PCICLK) as long as the Isolate pin is asserted. 
LAN WAKE-UP Signal:
 This signal is used to inform the motherboard 
to execute the wake-up process. The motherboard must support 
Wake-On-LAN (WOL). There are 4 choices of output, including active 
high, active low, positive pulse, and negative pulse, that may be asserted 
from the LWAKE pin. Please refer to the LWACT bit in the CONFIG1 
register and the LWPTN bit in the CONFIG4 register for the setting of 
this output signal. The default output is an active high signal.  
Once a PME event is received, the LWAKE and PMEB assert at the 
same time when the LWPME (bit4, CONFIG4) is set to 0. If the 
LWPME is set to 1, the LWAKE asserts only when the PMEB asserts 
and the ISOLATEB is low. 
This pin is a 3.3V signaling output pin. 
I 
74 
LWAKE 
O 
64 
4.2 PCI Interface 
Symbol 
AD31-0 
Type 
T/S 
Pin No 
Description 
86,87,89,91-95,100, 
1,3-5,8-10,23-30,33, 
36-38,41,42,44,45 
98,11,21,32 
83 
PCI Address and Data Multiplexed Pins
C/BE3-0 
CLK 
T/S 
I 
PCI bus command and byte enables multiplexed pins. 
Clock: 
This PCI Bus clock provides timing for all transactions and bus 
phases, and is input to PCI devices. The rising edge defines the start of 
each phase. The clock frequency ranges from 0 to 40MHz. For normal 
network operation, the RTL8100B(L) requires a minimum PCI clock 
frequency of 16.75MHz. 
Device Select:
 As a bus master, the RTL8100B (L) samples this signal 
to insure that a PCI target recognizes the destination address for the data 
transfer. As a target, the RTL8100B(L) asserts this signal low when it 
recognizes its target address after FRAMEB is asserted.  
Cycle Frame:
 As a bus master, this pin indicates the beginning and 
duration of an access. FRAMEB is asserted low to indicate the start of a 
bus transaction. While FRAMEB is asserted, data transfer continues. 
When FRAMEB is deasserted, the transaction is in the final data phase. 
As a target, the device monitors this signal before decoding the address 
to check if the current transaction is addressed to it. 
DEVSELB 
S/T/S 
15 
FRAMEB 
S/T/S 
12