IEI Technology eKINO-945GSE, User Manual, Page: 34 / 215

eKINO-945GSE Motherboard
Page 18
2.5.5 PCIe Bus
The Intel® ICH7M Southbridge chipset has four PCIe lanes. Two of the four PCIe lanes
are interfaced to PCIe GbE controllers. Another land is connected to the PCIe Mini card
slot.
2.5.5.1 PCIe GbE Ethernet
Two PCIe lanes are connected to two Realtek RTL8111C PCIe GbE controllers shown in
Figure 2-5 .
The Realtek RTL8111C PCIe GbE controllers combine a triple-speed IEEE 802.3
compliant Media Access Controller (MAC) with a triple-speed Ethernet transceiver, 32-bit
PCIe bus controller, and embedded memory. With state-of-the-art DSP technology and
mixed-mode signal technology, they offer high-speed transmission over CAT 5 UTP cable
or CAT 3 UTP (10 Mb/s only) cable. Functions such as Crossover Detection &
Auto-Correction, polarity correction, adaptive equalization, cross-talk cancellation, echo
cancellation, timing recovery, and error correction are implemented to provide robust
transmission and reception capability at high speeds.
Some of the features of the Realtek RTL8111C PCIe GbE controllers are listed below.
ƒ
Integrated 10/100/1000 transceiver
ƒ
Auto-Negotiation with Next Page capability
ƒ
Supports PCI Express™ 1.1
ƒ
Supports pair swap/polarity/skew correction
ƒ
Crossover Detection & & Auto-Correction
ƒ
Wake-on-LAN and remote wake-up support
ƒ
Microsoft® NDIS5, NDIS6 Checksum Offload (IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP) and
Segmentation Task-offload (Large send and Giant send) support
ƒ
Supports Full Duplex flow control (IEEE 802.3x)
ƒ
Fully compliant with IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab
ƒ
Supports IEEE 802.1P Layer 2 Priority Encoding
ƒ
Supports IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging
ƒ
Serial EEPROM
ƒ
Transmit/Receive on-chip buffer support
ƒ
Supports power down/link down power saving