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Figure 2-16: intel® 82573l pcie gbe controller – IEI Integration PCIE-Q350 v1.20 User Manual

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physical layer (PHY) device with its own Memory Access Controller (MAC) and interfaced

to the Intel® ICH9DO Southbridge through a PCIe x1 lane. The Intel® 82573L GbE

controllers is shown in Figure 2-16 below.

Figure 2-16: Intel® 82573L PCIe GbE Controller

Some of the features of the Intel® 82573L are listed below:

2 Gbps peak bandwidth per direction

PCI Express Rev 1.0a specification

High bandwidth density per pin

Wide,pipelined internal data path architecture

Optimized transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) queues

32 KB configurable Rx and Tx first-in/first-out (FIFO)

IEEE 802.3x*-compliant flow-control support with software controllable pause

times and threshold values

Programmable host memory Rx buffers (256 B-16 KB)

Descriptor ring management hardware for Tx and Rx

Mechanism for reducing interrupts from Tx/Rx operations

Integrated PHY for 10/100/1000 Mbps (full- and half-duplex)

IEEE 802.3ab* auto-negotiation support

IEEE 802.3ab PHY compliance and compatibility

Tx/Rx IP,TCP,and UDP checksum offloading

Tx TCP segmentation

IEEE 802.1q* Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) support with VLAN tag