Networking Silicon — 82540EP

2.0Features of the 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller

2.1PCI Features

Features

 

Benefits

 

 

 

• Application flexibility for LAN on Motherboard

PCI Revision 2.3 support for 32-bit wide interface at

 

(LOM) or embedded solutions

• 64-bit addressing for systems with more than 4

33 MHz and 66 MHz

 

Gigabytes of physical memory

 

 

 

• Support for new PCI 2.3 interrupt status/control

 

 

 

Algorithms that optimally use advanced PCI, MWI,

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Efficient bus operations

MRM, and MRL commands

 

 

 

 

 

• Enables CardBus operation (when used with

CardBus Information Services (CIS) Pointer

 

external FLASH device and series termination on

 

 

PCI bus)

 

 

 

CLKRUN# Signal

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PCI clock suspension for low power mobile design

 

 

 

2.2MAC Specific Features

Features

 

Benefits

 

 

Low-latency transmit and receive queues

• Network packets handled without waiting or buffer

 

overflow.

 

 

 

 

 

IEEE 802.3x compliant flow control support with

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Control over the transmissions of pause frames

software controllable pause times and threshold

 

through software or hardware triggering

values

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Frame loss reduced from receive overruns

 

 

 

Caches up to 64 packet descriptors in a single burst

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Efficient use of PCI bandwidth

 

 

 

Programmable host memory receive buffers (256

 

 

Bytes to 16 KBytes) and cache line size (16 Bytes to

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Efficient use of PCI bandwidth

256 Bytes)

 

 

 

 

Wide, optimized internal data path architecture

• Low latency data handling

• Superior DMA transfer rate performance

 

 

 

 

64 KByte configurable Transmit and Receive FIFO

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No external FIFO memory requirements

buffers

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FIFO size adjustable to application

 

 

 

Descriptor ring management hardware for transmit

• Simple software programming model

and receive

 

 

 

 

 

Optimized descriptor fetching and write-back

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Efficient system memory and use of PCI

mechanisms

 

bandwidth

 

 

 

Mechanism available for reducing interrupts

• Maximizes system performance and throughput

generated by transmit and receive operations

 

 

 

 

 

Support for transmission and reception of packets up

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Enables jumbo frames

to 16 KBytes

 

 

 

 

 

Datasheet

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Intel 82540EP manual PCI Features, MAC Specific Features, Features Benefits, Application flexibility for LAN on Motherboard