Features

External Interfaces provided:

 PCIe v2.1 (2.5GT/s and 5GT/s) x4/x2/x1; called PCIe in this

document.

 MDI (Copper) standard IEEE 802.3 Ethernet interface for

1000BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 10BASE-T applications

(802.3, 802.3u, and 802.3ab)

 Serializer-Deserializer (SERDES) to support 1000BASE-SX/

LX (optical fiber - IEEE802.3)

 Serializer-Deserializer (SERDES) to support 1000BASE-KX

(802.3ap) and 1000BASE-BX (PICMIG 3.1) for Gigabit

backplane applications

 SGMII (Serial-GMII Specification) interface for SFP (SFP

MSA INF-8074i)/external PHY connections

 NC-SI (DMTF NC-SI) or SMBus for Manageability connection

to BMC

 IEEE 1149.6 JTAG

Performance Enhancements:

 PCIe v2.1 TLP Process Hints (TPH)

 UDP, TCP and IP Checksum offload

 UDP and TCP Transmit Segmentation Offload (TSO)

 SCTP receive and transmit checksum offload

Virtualization ready:

 Next Generation VMDq support (8 VMs)

 Support of up to 8 VMs per port (1 queue allocated to each

VM)

 PCI-SIG I/O SR-IOV support (Direct assignment)

 Queues per port: 8 TX and 8 RX queues

Power saving features:

 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) power

management states and wake-up capability

 Advanced Power Management (APM) wake-up functionality

 Low power link-disconnect state

 PCIe v2.1 LTR

 DMA Coalescing for improved system power management

 EEE (IEEE802.3az) for reduced power consumption during

low link utilization periods

IEEE802.1AS - Timing and Synchronization:

 IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol support

 Per-packet timestamp

Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO):

 IPMI BMC pass-thru; multi-drop NC-SI

 Internal BMC to OS and OS to BMC traffic support

Additional product details:

 17x17 (256 Balls) or 25x25 (576 Balls) PBGA package

 Estimated power: 2.8W (max) in dual port mode and 4.2W

(max) in quad port mode

 Memories have Parity or ECC protection