ConnectX® EN - Dual-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller with PCI Express 2.0

Overview

Mellanox ConnectX EN 10 Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC) delivers high-bandwidth and industry leading 10GbE connectivity with stateless offloads for performance-driven server and storage applications in High-Performance Computing, Enterprise Data Centers, and Embedded environments. Large clustered databases, web infrastructure, and IP video servers are just a few example applications that will achieve significant throughput improvements resulting in faster access and increased number of users per server. ConnectX EN improves network performance by increasing available bandwidth while decreasing the associated transport load on the CPU and providing enhanced performance, especially in virtualized server environments. The device is well suited for Blade Server and LAN on the Motherboard (LOM) designs due to its small overall footprint requirement.


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  • Single chip architecture
  • Integrated CX4, XFI and backplane PHY interfaces
  • No local memory needed
  • Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports
  • PCI Express 2.0 (up to 5GT/s)
  • Traffic steering across multiple cores
  • TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload in hardware
  • Intelligent interrupt coalescence
  • Hardware-based I/O virtualization
  • Advanced Quality of Service
  • Full support for Intel I/OAT
  • 10Gb/s full duplex bandwidth for servers and storage
  • Industry leading throughput and latency performance
  • Virtualization acceleration
  • High-performance networking and storage access
  • Software compatible with standard TCP/UDP/IP and iSCSI stacks
  • Small PCB footprint
  • Dual Ethernet ports: 10Gb/s (XAUI, CX4, KX4, XFI or KR) or 1Gb/s (SGMII or KX)
  • PCI Express 2.0 x8 (1.1 compatible)
  • Management interfaces (DMTF compatible, Fast Management Link)
  • 4 x 16MB serial Flash interface
  • Dual I2C interfaces
  • IEEE 1149.1 boundary-scan JTAG
  • Link status LED indicators
  • General purpose I/O
  • 21 x 21mm HFCBGA
  • RoHS-5 compliant
  • Requires 3.3V, 2.5V, 1.8V, 1.2V supplies