Silicom Ltd. Connectivity Solutions

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Performance Features:

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8 Transmit and 8 Receive queues per port.

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Up to 8 queues of Receive Side Scaling (RSS) minimize CPU utilization across multiple processor systems.

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Support PCI-SIG Single-Root I/O virtualization Rev 1.1.

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Support for up to 8 virtual function ( VFs)

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Partial replication of PCI Configuration space

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Support for 8 pools (single queue) of virtual machine Device Queues (VMDq) per port

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Support Direct Cache Access (DCA)

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Support Intel I/O Acceleration Technology v3.0

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TSO interleaving for reduced latency

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Minimized number of device I/O interrupts using MSI and MSI-X

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UDP, TCP and IP checksum offload

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UDP and TCP transmit segmentation offload (TSO). machine

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SCTP receive and transmit checksum offload

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Packet interrupt coalescing timers (packet timers) and absolute-delay interrupt timers for both transmit and receive operation

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EEE (IEEE 802.3az) for reduced power consumption during low link utilization periods

Common Key features:

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PCI Express ExpressModule Electromechanical Specification Revision 1.0

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PCI Express Base Specification 2.1 (5 GTs)

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High performance, reliability, and low power use in Intel I350 Quad integrated MAC + PHY and SERDES chip Controllers

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Ultra deep, packet buffer per channel lowers CPU utilization

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Hardware acceleration that can offload tasks from the host processor. The Controllers can offload TCP/UDP/IP checksum

calculations and TCP segmentation

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Server class reliability, availability and performance features:

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Link Aggregation and Load Balancing

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Priority queuing

– 802.1p layer 2 priority encoding

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Virtual LANs

–802.1q VLAN tagging

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Jumbo Frame (9.5KB).

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802.x flow control

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Multicast/ broadcast Packet replication on receive

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Supports Vital Product Data (VPD)

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LEDs indicators for link/Activity status

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Hot Plug not supported. Can be supported by assembly change