Manual

83830-580-00 Rev. D 06/12 3
DATA SHEET
Host Bus Interface Specifications
Bus Interface
• PCIe ×4 Gen3, PCIe ×8 Gen2, PCIe ×8 Gen1
Host Interrupts
• INTx and MSI-X
Compliance
• PCI Express Base Specification 3.0 (v1.0), PCI Express
Card Electromechanical Specification rev 2.0, PCI Bus
Power Management Interface Specification rev. 1.2,
PCI Hot Plug Specification rev. 1.1
Ethernet Specifications
Throughput
• 10Gbps full-duplex line rate per-port
Ethernet Frame
• 1500 byte or 9600 byte (jumbo frame)
Stateless Offload
• IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloads
• Large and giant send offload (LSO, GSO)
• Large receive offload (LRO)
• Receive side scaling (RSS)
• Interrupt coalescing
Board Management Controller (BMC) Support
• SMBus and RMII (network controller-sideband
interface (NC-SI))
Power Management
• Wake on LAN (WoL)
• Energy Efficient Ethernet (802.3az)
Compliance
• IEEE: 802.3ae (10Gb Ethernet), 802.1q (VLAN),
802.3ad (Link Aggregation)
1
, 802.1p (Priority
Encoding), 802.3x (Flow Control) IPv4 (RFQ 791), IPv6
(RFC 2460), 802.1Qbb (Priority-based Flow Control),
802.1Qaz (DCBX/Enhanced Transmission Selection),
802.1Qau (Congestion Notification)
1 Contact your QLogic sales representative regarding supported
configurations.
Fibre Channel and FCoE Specifications
Logins
• Support for 2,048 concurrent logins and 2,048 active
exchanges
Port Virtualization
• N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV)
Compliance
• SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSI-FCP), Fibre
Channel Tape (FC-TAPE) Profile, SCSI Fibre Channel
Protocol-2 (FCP-2), Second Generation FC Generic
Services (FC-GS-2), Third Generation FC Generic
Services (FC-GS-3), FCoE & FIP (FC-BB-5)
iSCSI Specifications
Compliance
• RFC 3347 (iSCSI Requirements and Design
Considerations), CHAP, iSNS, SLP
Controller Specifications
Valid Port Configurations
• Two 16Gb Fibre Channel ports
• Two 10GbE ports
• One 16Gb Fibre Channel port
• One 10GbE port
Network Interfaces (XAUI, XFI, SFI)
• Optical: 16Gbps SFP+ SR/LR
• Optical: 10Gbps SFP+ SR/LR
• Copper: 10Gbps SFP+ Twinax
• Copper: 10Gbps and 1Gbps RJ-45 (external PHY
required)
• Backplane: 10Gbps (KX4), 10Gbps (KR),
and 1Gbps (KX)
Memory
• Integrated 2MB SRAM
• 16-bit, ECC-protected DDR3 interface to external
DRAM
• Integrated 2MB SRAM for Fibre Channel applications
Temperature
• Operating: 110°C maximum junction temperature
• Storage: –45°C to 125°C
Airflow
• System-design dependent
RoHS Compliance
• Green (RoHS 6 compliant and halogen free)
Packaging
• 29mm × 29mm; 784-ball (FCBGA) and
1.0mm ball pitch
Ordering Information
EP8324
• Dual-port embedded controller for storage target
applications
• Ships with minimum order of 144 devices (36 devices
per tray × 4 trays)