DESCRIPTION

· The BCM5715S is a dual-port Gigabit Ethernet controller with a PCI Express® host interface, designed for high-performance networking applications.

FEATURES

· Dual integrated 1.25 Gbps SerDes interface.

· PCI Express® x4 Host Interface.

· Dual 1000BASE-X Media Access Controllers (MACs).

· Integrated high-speed RISC cores.

· 5 KB receive and 22 KB transmit buffers.

· CPU task offload features (TCP, IP, UDP checksum, and Microsoft® Large Send Offload).

· TCP segmentation, IP fragmentation, and reassembly.

· Robust manageability with PXE 2.0 remote boot and Universal Management Port (UMP) interface.

· IPMI-compliant server management interface.

· Out-of-Box Wake-on-LAN (OoB WOL).

· Statistic gathering (SNMP MIB II, Ethernet-like MIB, Ethernet MIB for 802.3x, clause 30).

· Comprehensive diagnostic and configuration software suite.

· SMBus 2.0 controller.

· Power management, ACPI 1.1a-compliant in multiple power modes.

· Advanced features include priority queuing, VLANs, jumbo frames, flow control, link aggregation, and failover.

· Performance features include CPU task offload and adaptive interrupts.

· 484-pin PBGA package.

· Power rails: 1.2V core, 2.5V I/O, and 3.3V I/O.

· 0.13 µm CMOS technology.

APPLICATIONS

· Highly integrated LAN on Motherboard (LOM) designs.

· Blade servers.

· Rack-optimized servers.

· Dual-port Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Network Interface Controller (NIC) card.