BCM5703S OVERVIEW

The BCM5703S 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet media access control and serializer/deserializer (SerDes) is a fully integrated interface solution for high-performance network applications.

FEATURES

• Single-chip solution for LAN on Motherboard (LOM) and network interface card (NIC) applications

• Integrated SerDes interface

• 10/100/1000 Mbps triple-speed media access controller (MAC)

• Host interfaces

- PCI v2.2, 32/64-bit, 33/66 MHz

- PCI-X v1.0 64-bit, 66/100/133 MHz

• Ultra-deep 96 KB, on-chip packet buffer

• Dual high-speed RISC cores with 16-KB caches

• Programmable, in-line packet classification

• SMBus controller

• On-chip power circuit controller and Wake on LAN power switching circuit

• Performance features

• TCP, IP, UDP checksum

• TCP segmentation

• CPU task offload

• Adaptive interrupts

• Ultra-deep 96 KB packet buffer

• Robust manageability

• PXE 2.0 remote boot

• Alert Standard Format (ASF 1.0 support)

• Wake on LAN

• Statistics gathering: SNMP MIB II, Ethernet-like MIB, Ethernet MIB (802.3x, Clause 30)

• Comprehensive diagnostic and configuration software suite

• ACPI 1.1a compliant (multiple power modes)

• Advanced network features

• Priority queuing (802.1p layer 2 priority encoding; support for four priority queues)

• Virtual LANs (802.1q VLAN tagging; support for up to 64 VLANs)

• Jumbo frames (9 KB)

• 802.3x flow control

• Advanced server features

• Link aggregation: 802.3ad, GEC/FEC, Smart Load Balancing™ (supports heterogeneous teams)

• Heterogeneous mixed-speed failover

• Hot-Plug PCI support

• Low power, 0.13-µm CMOS design

• 300-pin HBGA package

• 3.3V I/Os (5V tolerant)

• JTAG