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