BCM5388

BCM5388 ® 8GE PORT SWITCH WITH INTEGRATED GE COPPER PHY FEATURES • Highest silicon integration level achieved for an 8-port, 10/100/1000 Ethernet switch device SUMMARY OF BENEFITS • Enables a new generation of lower-cost switches with Gigabit Ethernet connectivity and much smaller form factors. • Seventh-generation switch on a chip • Integrates: Four 10/100/1000 transceivers (802.3ab compliant) Eight MACs (802.x compliant) with support for 9 Kbyte Jumbo Frames Four RGMII Interfaces and 128-Kbyte packet buffer memory Nonblocking 8-Gigabit Ethernet fully integrated switch fabric SPI Interface for easy setup and smart unmanaged operation • Uses field-proven industry-standard 10/100/1000BASE-T transceivers which lowers overall system interoperability and reliability risks. desktop for all remote, branch, and home office needs. • Provides the most cost-effective Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to the • 802.1Q tag VLAN, trunking, and 802.1p priority enables the switch to be designed into a wide variety of applications from unmanaged to smart switch. server farms and networks while maintaining maximum TCP/IP performance. • Jumbo frame support allows the device to be connected to corporate • CPUs are not required to initialize and run in cost-sensitive cost. • Classifies packets using four 802.1p QoS or DiffServ/TOS priority queues unmanaged applications, providing true Plug and Play connectivity. • • • • • • • • • • VLAN 4k 802.1Q or port-based supported Supports up to 8k unicast MAC addresses Supports MAC-based port aggregation (trunking) Flow control: full-duplex (802.3x) and half-duplex options supported Supports automatic address learning and aging Internal oscillator circuit Low power 0.13 µm 1.2 V CMOS core: