Dual-Port 10G/2500/1000BASE-X TOE, RDMA, iSCSI PCI Express® Ethernet Controller
The BCM57711 provides a fully integrated Layer 4 and Layer 5 solution -TCP/IP, RDMA, and iSCSI 1.0 along with dual 1000/2500/10GBASE-X Ethernet, IEEE 802.3-compliant media access control (MAC), and physical layer transceiver for high-performance network applications.
By itself, the BCM57711 provides a complete single-chip dual-channel 10GBASE-KX4/10GBASE-CX4 C-NIC with a TCP/IP, RDMA NIC (RNIC), and iSCSI 1.0 HBA functionality for NIC or LOM solutions.
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- Single-chip solution for LAN on Motherboard (LOM) and converged network interface card (C-NIC) applications
-Integrated dual 10 Gbps MAC and dual XAUI™/10GBASE-CX4/10GBASE-KX4
-Single 25.00 MHz clock crystal for 10 Gbps operation
-PCI Express x8 v2.0-compliant host interface - Network interfaces:
-Dual-port 1000BASE-KX/2500BASE-KX/10GBASE-KX4/XAUI/10GBASE-CX4 interfaces for 1 Gbps/2.5 Gbps/10 Gbps operation
-IEEE 802.3ap clause 73-compliant backplane operation
-IEEE 802.3xx clause 37-compliant auto-negotiation for 1 Gbps and 2.5 Gbps - TCP:
-Microsoft® TCP chimney compliant
-Full FASTPATH® TCP for IPv4 and IPv6
-No external memory required; flow-through architecture - Industry's first 1000 Mbit/2500 Mbit/10 Gbps SerDes-based TCP/IP solution -power and space optimized for server blade, rack tower, and C-NIC applications
-Four-lane XAUI for 10 Gbps operation on server blade backplane or rack/tower using optical or CX-4 cables
-Single-lane 1 Gbps or 2.5 Gbps for server blade with one lane
-1-Gbps operation over copper or optical fiber for rack and tower servers - Extremely low CPU utilization for TCP/IP applications
-Host CPU is free to run application code
-Minimal load on memory subsystem with zero copy
