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,

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

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

Control over the transmissions of pause frames

software controllable pause times and threshold

 

through software or hardware triggering

values

Frame loss reduced from receive overruns

 

 

 

Caches up to 64 packet descriptors in a single burst

Efficient use of PCI bandwidth

 

 

 

Programmable host memory receive buffers (256

 

 

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

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

No external FIFO memory requirements

buffers

FIFO size adjustable to application

 

 

 

Descriptor ring management hardware for transmit

• Simple software programming model

and receive

 

 

 

 

 

Optimized descriptor fetching and write-back

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

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