Product Features
BCM5718 Programmer’s Guide
Broadcom
®
January 29, 2016 • 5718-PG108-R
Page 48
Multiple receive descriptor queues
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IOV support (I/O Virtualization) for:
• VMWare
®
NetQueue
• Microsoft
®
Virtual Machine Queue
(VMQ)
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MSI
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MSI-X
Yes (5 Vectors) Yes (17 Vectors) Yes (17 Vectors) Yes (17 Vectors)
Function Level Reset
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Scatter/gather bus mastering
architecture
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet like
MIB, Ethernet MIB (IEEE 802.3z,
Clause 30)
Yes Yes Yes Yes
ASF
v2.0
support
No No No No
iSCSI
Boot
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Teaming
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Host Bus Interfaces
PCIe 2.0 x2
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PCIe 2.1 x4
No
No
Yes
No
LAN Interfaces
Integrated
10/100/1000
transceiver
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Internal
MII/GMII
Interface Yes Yes Yes Yes
Other Bus Interfaces
NC-SI (version 1.0.0a)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Host 2 BMC
No
No
No
Yes
SMBus 2.0 interface
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface to Flash memory
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface to Serial EEPROM
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Flash
Autoconfig
Support Yes Yes Yes Yes
Self-Test
Test modes (BIST, SCAN, etc)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
JTAG support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Technology
High-performance, low-overhead
software/hardware interface
Yes Yes Yes Yes
High-speed on-chip RISC processors
(one per port)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Table 2: BCM5718 Family Product Features (Cont.)
Feature
BCM5717
Dual-Port
Copper
BCM5718
Dual-Port
Copper/SerDes
BCM5719
Quad-Port
Copper/SerDes
BCM5720
Dual-Port
Copper/SerDes