ADLINK EXP-ETH8 - Manual (Page 5)

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1 Overview
1.1 Introduction
The EXP-ETH8 is an Add-on Module conforming to the EPIC Express TM Specification.
It comprises eight independent 10/100/1000 Mb/s ports that can be easily connected to RJ45 sockets mounted
at the front of the module.
The state of link, speed and activity is show by two LEDs on every socket.
The EXP-ETH8 supports Stack-up and Stack-down to a CPU Module.
Furthermore the EXP-ETH8 uses the 5 Volt and 3.3 Volt power supplied from the PCI/104-Express connector.
All other voltages are generated on the board itself.
The EXP-ETH8 runs with Linux and Windows operation systems.
Features
MAC
 Flow Control Support compliant with the 802.3x
specification
 VLAN support compliant with the 802.1Q
specification
 MAC address filters: perfect match unicast
 multicast hash filtering, broadcast filter
 Programmable host memory receive buffers and
promiscuous mode
 Statistics for management
 MAC loopback
PCI Express
 64-bit address master support
 Programmable host memory receive buffers
(256 bytes to 16 KB)
 Intelligent interrupt generation features to
enhance driver performance
 Descriptor ring management hardware for
transmit and receive software controlled
reset
 MSI/MSI-X compatible
 Configurable receive and transmit data FIFO,
programmable in 1 KB increments