Chip makes 10-Gbit/s Ethernet affordable

Dual-port chip needs no external RAM and uses only 6.5 W

Said to be the industry’s first single-chip dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet converged-network interface controller (C-NIC), the NetXtreme II BCM57710 integrates dual 10-Gbit/s MACs and dual XAUI/10GBASE-CX4/10GBASE-KX4 interfaces. The IC has a TCP/IP processing engine, iSCSI, remote direct memory access, and remote management. It offloads the processing of networking protocols, freeing up the host processor.

The device uses a x8 PCIe interface to the host, requires no external memory, needs only 6.5 W at full speed, and is optimized for small I/O sizes. It comes in 676-ball 27 x 27-mm PBGA+HS RoHS-compliant package. (Less than $100 ea/prod qtysamples available now.)

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