BCM5721

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10/100/1000BASE-T CONTROLLER WITH INTEGRATED TRANSCEIVER

network interface card (NIC) applications

• 10/100/1000BASE-T triple-speed MAC

• High-speed RISC core with 24-KB cache

• SMBus 2.0 controller

• On-chip voltage regulation

• Wake-on-LAN (WOL) power switching circuit

• 1x lane

• Four-pin interface

• Functionality identical to PCI

• TCP, IP, and UDP checksum

• Large burst read

• Interrupt coalescing

• IPMI 1.5 support

• Standards-compliant WOL

• Innovative out-of-box mode WOL

• Hardware power switching

• PCI Express provides wirespeed non-blocking throughput

• TCP/IP offloads significantly reduce utilization of CPU

• TCP/IP offloads significantly increase throughput to enable

faster downloads of large files

motherboard design

• Innovative design reduces footprint to 67% smaller than

competing solutions

• 15 x 15-mm package

• Integrated WOL switching eliminates external power

switching components

• Support for standards-based manageability allows IT managers

to receive automatic alerts when PC support issues occur

• Remote power-on/off features allow IT managers to power

cycle PCs to address issues

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