10/100/1000BASE-T TCP Offload Engine, RDMA, iSCSI/iSER and Ethernet Controller with PCI-Express?

The BCM5708C provides a fully integrated Layer 4 and Layer 5 solution - TCP/IP, RDMA and iSCSI 1.0/iSER along with a complete 10/ 100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.3 compliant Media Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer Transceiver solution for high performance network applications. By itself, the BCM5708C provides a complete single-chip Gigabit Ethernet NIC with a TCP/IP Offload Engine, RDMA NIC (RNIC), iSCSI 1.0/iSER HBA or LOM solution.

FEATURES

? Single-chip solution for LAN on Motherboard (LOM) and Network Interface Card (NIC) applications

? Integrated 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T transceivers

? Host interfaces

- PCI-Express? x4 Host interface

? TCP offload engine

? Full “fast Path” TCP offload

? Compliant with Microsoft’s TOE Chimney Architecture

? iSCSI controller

? iSCSI initiator

? iSER (iSCSI over RDMA)

? RDMA controller (RNIC)

? RDMA over TCP (iWARP)—RDMAC 1.0 compliant

? Hardware-based data placement in application buffers without CPU intervention (User and Kernel modes)

? Other performance features

? Receive Side Scaling (RSS)

? TCP, IP checksum

? TCP segmentation

? Adaptive interrupts

? Message Signal Interrupt (MSI) support

? Robust manageability

? Universal Management Port (UMP)

? PXE 2.0 remote boot

? Alert Standard Format (ASF v1.0) support

? Wake-On LAN

? IPMI pass-through feature

? Statistics gathering (SNMP MIB II, Ethernet-like MIB, Ethernet MIB (802.3x, clause 30))

? Comprehensive diagnostic and configuration software suite

? ACPI 1.1a compliant power management

? Advanced network features

? Virtual LANs—802.1q VLAN tagging

? Jumbo frames (9 KB)

? 802.3x flow control

? Low-power CMOS design

? On-chip power circuit controller

? 400-ball 21x21 mm FBGA package

? 3.3V I/Os

? JTAG