BCM5727

Fully integrated dual-media 10/100/1000BASE-T and 10/100/1000BASE-X Ethernet Media Access Control, Physical Layer Transceivers and Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) with Host to BMC Pass Through for high-performance networking and server applications

 

The BCM5720 is a 13th-generation 10/100/1000BASE-T and 10/100/1000BASE-X Ethernet LAN controller for high-performance server and networking applications. The host interface supports a separate PCI Express function for each LAN interface. The BCM5720 includes I/O Virtualization (IOV) features such as 17 receive and 16 transmit queues, and 17 MSI-X vectors with flexible vector-to-queue association. These IOV features enable the BCM5720 to support the VMWare® NetQueue and Microsoft® VMQ technologies.
 
  The BCM5720 includes a comprehensive set of hardware features that the system may use to implement IEEE 1588- or IEEE 802.1AS-based time synchronization. These hardware features include a high-precision clock, timestamp registers for receive/transmit packets, and programmable trigger inputs and watchdog outputs.