RTL8370N-VB-CG 交换机控制器

1. General Description
The RTL8370N-VB is an LQFP128 E-PAD, high-performance 8-port Gigabit Ethernet switch. The 
RTL8370N-VB features low-power integrated 8-port Giga-PHYs that support 1000Base-T, 100Base-T, and 10Base-T.

The embedded packet storage SRAM in the RTL8370N-VB features superior memory management technology to efficiently utilize memory space. The RTL8370N-VB integrates a 4096-entry look-up table with a 4-way XOR Hashing algorithm for address searching and learning. The table provides read/write access from the Slave I2C-like interface or Slave MII Management interface, and each of the entries can be configured as a static entry. The entry aging time is between 200 and 400 seconds. Eight Filtering Databases are used to provide Independent VLAN Learning and Shared VLAN Learning (IVL/SVL) functions. 
The RTL8370N-VB supports standard 802.3x flow control frames for full duplex, and optional 
backpressure for half duplex. It determines when to invoke the flow control mechanism by checking the availability of system resources, including the packet buffers and transmitting queues. The RTL8370NVB supports broadcast/multicast output dropping, and will forward broadcast/multicast packets to nonblocked ports only. For IP multicast applications, the RTL8370N-VB can forward IPv4 IGMPv1/v2/v3 and IPv6 MLDv1/v2 snooping protocol packets. 
In order to support flexible traffic classification, the RTL8370N-VB supports 96-entry ACL rule check and multiple actions options. Each port can optionally enable or disable the ACL rule check function. The ACL rule key can be based on packet physical port, Layer2, Layer3, and Layer4 information. When an ACL rule matches, the action taken is configurable to Drop/Permit/Redirect/Mirror, change priority value in 802.1q/Q tag, and rate policing. The rate policing mechanism supports from 8Kbps to 1Gbps (in 8Kbps steps). 
In Bridge operation the RTL8370N-VB supports 16 sets and four statuses: disable, block, learning, and forwarding for Spanning Tree Protocol and Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol. 
To meet security and management application requirements, the RTL8370N-VB supports IEEE 802.1x Port-based/MAC-based Access Control. For those ports that do not pass IEEE 802.1x authentication, the RTL8370N-VB provides a Port-based/MAC-based Guest VLAN function for them to access limited network resources. A 1-set Port Mirroring function is configured to mirror traffic (RX, TX, or both) appearing on one of the switch‟s ports. Support is provided on each port for multiple RFC MIB Counters, for easy debug and diagnostics. 
To improve real-time or multimedia networking applications, the RTL8370N-VB supports eight priority assignments for each received packet. These are based on (1) Port-based priority; (2) 802.1p/Q VLAN tag priority; (3) DSCP field in IPv4/IPv6 header; and (4) ACL-assigned priority; (5) CVLAN-based priority; (6) SVLAN-based priority; and (7) SMAC-based/LUTFWD-based priority. Each output port supports a weighted ratio of eight priority queues to fit bandwidth requirements in different applications. The input bandwidth control function helps limit per-port traffic utilization. There is one leaky bucket for average packet rate control for each queue of all ports. Queue scheduling algorithm can use Strict Priority (SP) or Weighted Fair Queue (WFQ) or mixed. The RTL8370N-VB provides a 4096-entry VLAN table for 802.1Q port-based, tag-based, and protocolbased VLAN operation to separate logical connectivity from physical connectivity. The RTL8370N-VB supports four Protocol-based VLAN configurations that can optionally select EtherType, LLC, and RFC1042 as the search key. Each port may be set to any topology. 
In embedded system applications, CPU may want to know the input port of the incoming packet. The RTL8370N-VB supports an option to insert a VLAN tag with VID=Port VID (PVID) on each egress port. The RTL8370N-VB also provides an option to admit VLAN tagged packet with a specific PVID only. If this function is enabled, the RTL8370N-VB will drop all non-tagged packets and packets with an 
incorrect PVID. 
2. Features
 RTL8370N-VB: Single-chip 8-port gigabit 
non-blocking switch architecture 
 Embedded 8-port 10/100/1000Base-T PHY 
 Each port supports full duplex 
10/100/1000M connectivity (half duplex 
only supported in 10/100M mode) 
 Full-duplex and half-duplex operation with 
IEEE 802.3x flow control and backpressure 
 Supports 9216-byte jumbo packet length 
forwarding at wire speed 
 Supports Realtek Cable Test (RTCT) 
function 
 Supports 96-entry ACL Rules 
 Search keys support physical port, 
Layer2, Layer3, and Layer4 information 
 Actions support mirror, redirect, 
dropping, priority adjustment, traffic 
policing, CVLAN decision, and SVLAN 
assignment 
 Supports 5 types of user defined ACL 
rule format for 64 ACL rules 
 Optional per-port enable/disable of ACL 
function 
 Optional setting of per-port action to 
take when ACL mismatch 
 Supports IEEE 802.1Q VLAN 
 Supports 4K VLANs and 32 Extra 
Enhanced VLANs 
 Supports Un-tag definition in each 
VLAN 
 Supports VLAN policing and VLAN 
forwarding decision 
 Supports Port-based, Tag-based, and 
Protocol-based VLAN 
 Up to 4 Protocol-based VLAN entries 
 Supports per-port and per-VLAN egress 
VLAN tagging and un-tagging 
 Supports IVL, SVL, and IVL/SVL 
 Supports 4096-entry MAC address table 
with 4-way hash algorithm 
 Up to 4096 L2/L3 Filtering Database 
 Supports Spanning Tree port behavior 
configuration 
 IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree 
 IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree 
with up to 16 Spanning Tree instances 
 Supports IEEE 802.1x Access Control 
Protocol 
 Port-Based Access Control 
 MAC-Based Access Control 
 Guest VLAN 
 Supports Quality of Service (QoS) 
 Supports per port Input Bandwidth 
Control 
 Traffic classification based on IEEE 
802.1p/Q priority definition, physical 
Port, IP DSCP field, ACL definition, 
VLAN based priority, MAC based 
priority, and SVLAN based priority 
 Eight Priority Queues per port 
 Per queue flow control 
 Min-Max Scheduling 
 Strict Priority and Weighted Fair Queue 
(WFQ) to provide minimum bandwidth 
 One leaky bucket to constrain the 
average packet rate of each queue 
 Supports rate limiting (64 shared meters,
with 8kpbs granulation) 
 Supports RFC MIB Counter 
 MIB-II (RFC 1213) 
 Ethernet-Like MIB (RFC 3635) 
 Interface Group MIB (RFC 2863) 
 RMON (RFC 2819) 
 Bridge MIB (RFC 1493) 
 Bridge MIB Extension (RFC 2674) 
 Supports Stacking VLAN and Port Isolation 
with 8 Enhanced Filtering Databases 
 Supports IEEE 802.1ad Stacking VLAN 
 Supports 64 SVLANs 
 Supports 32 L2/IPv4 Multicast mappings 
to SVLAN 
 Supports 4 IEEE 802.3ad Link aggregation 
port groups 
 Supports OAM and EEE LLDP (Energy 
Efficient Ethernet Link Layer Discovery 
Protocol 
 Supports Loop Detection 
 Security Filtering 
 Disable learning for each port 
 Disable learning-table aging for each 
port 
 Drop unknown DA for each port 
 Broadcast/Multicast/Unknown DA storm 
control protects system from attack by 
hackers 
 Supports Realtek Green Ethernet features 
 Link-On Cable Length Power Saving 
 Link-Down Power Saving 
 Each port supports 3 parallel LED or scan 
LED or serial shift LED outputs 
 Supports I2C-like Slave interface or Slave 
MII Management interface to access 
configuration register 
 Supports 16K-byte EEPROM space for 
configuration 
 Integrated 8051 microprocessor 
 Supports SPI Flash Interface 
 25MHz crystal input 
 RTL8370N-VB: LQFP 128-pin E-PAD 
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