Data Sheet

Introduction—Ethernet Controller I210

1.2.1 External Specification and Documents

The I210 implements features from the following specifications.

1.2.1.1 Network Interface Documents

1. IEEE standard 802.3, 2006 Edition (Ethernet). Incorporates various IEEE Standards previously

published separately. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

2. IEEE standard 1149.1, 2001 Edition (JTAG). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

3. IEEE standard 802.1Q for VLAN

4. PICMG3.1 Ethernet/Fibre Channel Over PICMG 3.0 Draft Specification, January 14, 2003, Version

D1.0

5. Serial-GMII Specification, Cisco Systems document ENG-46158, Revision 1.7

6. INF-8074i Specification for SFP (Small Form factor Pluggable) Transceiver (ftp://ftp.seagate.com/

sff)

7. IEEE Std 802.3ap-2007

8. IEEE 1588

Standard for a Precision Clock Synchronization Protocol for Networked Measurement

and Control Systems, November 8 2002

9. IEEE 802.1AS Timing and Synchronization for Time- Sensitive Applications in Bridged Local Area

Networks Draft 2.0, February 22, 2008

10. IEEE 802.1BF Ethernet Support for the IEEE P802.1AS Time Synchronization Protocol Task Force

11. IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet Draft 1.4, May 2009

12. 802.1BA - Audio Video Bridging (AVB) Systems

13. 802.1Qav - Forwarding and Queuing Enhancements for Time-Sensitive Streams

PHY Physical Layer Device.

PMA Physical Medium Attachment.

PMD Physical Medium Dependent.

SA Source Address.

SDP Software Defined Pins.

SerDes Serializer/deserializer. A transceiver that converts parallel data to serial data and vice-versa.

SFD Start Frame Delimiter.

SGMII Serialized Gigabit Media Independent Interface.

SMBus

System Management Bus. A bus that carries various manageability components, including

the LAN controller, BIOS, sensors and remote-control devices.

SVR Switching Voltage Regulator

TCO Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) System Management.

TLP Transaction Layer Packet in the PCI Express specification.

TSO

Transmit Segmentation offload - A mode in which a large TCP/UDP I/O is handled to the

device and the device segments it to L2 packets according to the requested MSS.

VLAN Virtual LAN

VPD Vital Product Data (PCI protocol).

Table 1-1. Glossary (Continued)

Definition Meaning