Introduction

1.3.6Manageability Features (Not Applicable to the 82544GC/EI or 82541ER)

Manageability support for ASF 1.0 and AoL 2.0 by way of SMBus 2.0 interface and either:

TCO mode SMBus-based management packet transmit / receive support

Internal ASF-compliant TCO controller

1.3.7Additional Ethernet Controller Features

Implements ACPI1 register set and power down functionality supporting D0 and D3 states

Supports Wake on LAN (WoL)1

Provides four wire serial EEPROM interface for loading product configuration information

Allows use of either 3.3 V dc or 5 V dc powered EEPROM

Provides external parallel interface for up to 512 KB of FLASH memory for support of Pre- Boot Execution Environment (PXE)

Provides seven general purpose user mode pins

Provides Activity and Link LED indications

Supports little-endian byte ordering for 32- and 64-bit systems

Provides loopback capabilities under TBI (82544GC/EI)2 (internal SerDes for the 82546GB/ EB and 82545GM/EM) and GMII/MII modes of operation

Provides IEEE JTAG boundary scan support

Four programmable LED outputs (Not applicable to the 82544GC/EI).

For the 82546GB/EB, four programmable LED outputs for each port

Detection and improved power-management with LAN cable unconnected (82546GB/EB)

1.3.8Technology Features

Implemented in 0.15∝ CMOS process (0.13∝ for the 82541xx and 82547GI/EI)

Packaged in 364 PBGA.

For the 82544EI, packaged in 416 PBGA.

For the 82540EP/EM, 82541xx, and 82547GI/EI, packaged in 196 PBGA.

Implemented in low power (3.3 V dc or 5 V dc compatible PCI signaling) CMOS process

1.Not applicable to the 82541ER.

2.Not applicable to the 82541xx, 82547GI/EI or 82540EP/EM.

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