Broadcom BCM5703 Network Adapter Recommendations

The BCM5703 is a fully integrated 64-bit 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Control and Physical Layer Transceiver solution for high performance network applications. The BCM5703 is a highly integrated solution combining triplespeed, IEEE 802.3 compliant Media Access Controller (MAC), PCI and PCI-X bus interfaces, on-chip buffer memory, and integrated physical layer transceiver in a single device. The BCM5703 is fabricated in a low-voltage, 0.13-um CMOS process providing a low-power system solution. By itself the BCM5703 provides a complete single-chip Gigabit Ethernet NIC or LOM solution. The BCM5703 includes a 10/100/1000-Mbps Ethernet MAC with full/half-duplex capability at all speeds, and 10/100/1000 copper PHY. Support for the following 802.3 functions is featured in the MAC: VLAN tagging, layer 2 priority encoding, link aggregation, and full-duplex flow control.