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1.3 2008/08/08 Added Deep Slumber Mode (DSM) power saving to features list on page 2.
1.4 2008/08/29 Revised Figure 2, page 4 (Pin23).
1.5 2009/01/07 Switching regulator output revised from 1.2V to 1.05V.
Revised Table 19 Crystal Requirements, page 28, Drive Level value.
1.6 2009/03/10 Added RTL8111D-VB-GR & RTL8111DL-VB-GR product numbers.
Added Deep Slumber Mode (DSM) V2 Feature on page 2.
Added section 6.2.6 Deep Slumber Mode (DSM) V1 & V2, page 12.
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Table of Contents
1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION..............................................................................................................................................1
3. SYSTEM APPLICATIONS...............................................................................................................................................2
5.5.REGULATOR AND REFERENCE......................................................................................................................................6
5.8.POWER AND GROUND ..................................................................................................................................................8
6.1.PCIEXPRESS BUS INTERFACE......................................................................................................................................9
6.2.1. Link Monitor...........................................................................................................................................................9
6.2.2. Rx LED .................................................................................................................................................................10
6.2.3. Tx LED .................................................................................................................................................................10
6.2.4. Tx/Rx LED ............................................................................................................................................................11
6.2.5. LINK/ACT LED ....................................................................................................................................................11
6.2.6. Deep Slumber Mode (DSM) V1 & V2...................................................................................................................12
6.2.7. Customizable LED Configuration ........................................................................................................................12
6.7.VITAL PRODUCT DATA (VPD)...................................................................................................................................17
7.2.INDUCTOR AND CAPACITOR PARTS LIST ....................................................................................................................20
8.1.ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM RATINGS ................................................................................................................................28
8.7.1. Serial EEPROM Interface Timing........................................................................................................................30
8.8.PCIEXPRESS BUS PARAMETERS................................................................................................................................31
TABLE 5.REGULATOR AND REFERENCE ......................................................................................................................................6
TABLE 8.POWER AND GROUND ...................................................................................................................................................8
TABLE 15.INDUCTOR AND CAPACITOR PARTS LIST ....................................................................................................................20
TABLE 17.ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM RATINGS ................................................................................................................................28
TABLE 27.AUXILIARY SIGNAL TIMING PARAMETERS.................................................................................................................36
TABLE 28.ORDERING INFORMATION ..........................................................................................................................................40
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FIGURE 8.INPUT VOLTAGE OVERSHOOT <4V(GOOD)...............................................................................................................21
FIGURE 9.INPUT VOLTAGE OVERSHOOT >4V(BAD) .................................................................................................................21
FIGURE 12.ELECTROLYTIC 100µF(RIPPLE TOO HIGH)...............................................................................................................23
FIGURE 20.SINGLE-ENDED MEASUREMENT POINTS FOR ABSOLUTE CROSS POINT AND SWING .................................................34
FIGURE 21.SINGLE-ENDED MEASUREMENT POINTS FOR DELTA CROSS POINT ..........................................................................34
FIGURE 22.SINGLE-ENDED MEASUREMENT POINTS FOR RISE AND FALL TIME MATCHING .......................................................34
FIGURE 23.DIFFERENTIAL MEASUREMENT POINTS FOR DUTY CYCLE AND PERIOD ...................................................................35
FIGURE 24.DIFFERENTIAL MEASUREMENT POINTS FOR RISE AND FALL TIME ...........................................................................35
FIGURE 25.DIFFERENTIAL MEASUREMENT POINTS FOR RINGBACK............................................................................................35
FIGURE 26.REFERENCE CLOCK SYSTEM MEASUREMENT POINT AND LOADING .........................................................................36
FIGURE 27.AUXILIARY SIGNAL TIMING......................................................................................................................................36
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1. General Description
The Realtek RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB Gigabit Ethernet controllers combine a triple-speed IEEE
802.3 compliant Media Access Controller (MAC) with a triple-speed Ethernet transceiver, PCI Express
bus controller, and embedded memory. With state-of-the-art DSP technology and mixed-mode signal
technology, the RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB offers high-speed transmission over CAT 5 UTP cable
or CAT 3 UTP (10Mbps only) cable. Functions such as Crossover Detection and Auto-Correction,
polarity correction, adaptive equalization, cross-talk cancellation, echo cancellation, timing recovery, and
error correction are implemented to provide robust transmission and reception capability at high speeds.
The RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB complies with the IEEE 802.3u specification for 10/100Mbps
Ethernet and the IEEE 802.3ab specification for 1000Mbps Ethernet. It also supports an auxiliary power
auto-detect function, and will auto-configure related bits of the PCI power management registers in PCI
configuration space.
Advanced Configuration Power management Interface (ACPI)—power management for modern
operating systems that are capable of Operating System-directed Power Management (OSPM)—is
supported to achieve the most efficient power management possible. PCI MSI (Message Signaled
Interrupt) and MSI-X are also supported.
In addition to the ACPI feature, remote wake-up (including AMD Magic Packet™ and Microsoft®
Wake-up frame) is supported in both ACPI and APM (Advanced Power Management) environments. To
support WOL from a deep power down state (e.g., D3cold, i.e., main power is off and only auxiliary
exists), the auxiliary power source must be able to provide the needed power for the
RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB.
The RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB is fully compliant with Microsoft
TCP, UDP) Checksum and Segmentation Task-offload (Large send and Giant send) features, and
supports IEEE 802 IP Layer 2 priority encoding and IEEE 802.1Q Virtual bridged Local Area Network
(VLAN). The above features contribute to lowering CPU utilization, especially benefiting performance
when in operation on a network server.
The RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB supports Receive Side Scaling (RSS) to hash incoming TCP
connections and load-balance received data processing across multiple CPUs. RSS improves the number
of transactions per second and number of connections per second, for increased network throughput.
The device also features inter-connect PCI Express technology. PCI Express is a high-bandwidth, low pin
count, serial, interconnect technology that offers significant improvements in performance over
conventional PCI and also maintains software compatibility with existing PCI infrastructure. The device
embeds an adaptive equalizer in the PCIe PHY for ease of system integration and excellent link quality.
The equalizer enables the length of the PCB traces to reach 40 inches.
The RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB is suitable for multiple market segments and emerging
applications, such as desktop, mobile, workstation, server, communications platforms, and embedded
applications.
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NDIS5, NDIS6(IPv4, IPv6,
The RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB supports the Deep Slumber Mode (DSM) power saving feature.
See the separate DSM application notes for details.
Power Management Event: Open drain, active low.
Used to reactivate the PCI Express slot’s main power rails and reference
clocks.
Isolate Pin: Active low.
Used to isolate the RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB from the PCI Express
bus. The RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB will not drive its PCI Express
outputs (excluding LANWAKEB) and will not sample its PCI Express
input as long as the Isolate pin is asserted.
PCI Express Reset Signal: Active low.
When the PERSTB is asserted at power-on state, the
RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB returns to a pre-defined reset state and is
ready for initialization and configuration after the de-assertion of the
PERSTB.
Reference Clock Request Signal.
This signal is used by the RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB to request
starting of the PCI Express reference clock.
EEDO I 45 33 Input from Serial Data Output Pin of EEPROM.
EECS O 44 32 EECS: EEPROM chip select.
Pin No
(48-pin)
Description
EEDI: Output to serial data input pin of EEPROM.
AUX: Input pin to detect if Aux. Power exists or not on initial power-on.
This pin should be connected to EEPROM. To support wakeup from ACPI
D3cold or APM power-down, this pin must be pulled high to Aux. Power via
a resistor. If this pin is not pulled high to Aux. Power, the
RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB assumes that no Aux. Power exists.
5.7. LEDs
Table 7. LEDs
Symbol Type Pin No
(64-pin)
LED0 O
LED1 O
LED2 O 55 34
LED3 O 54 33
Note 1: During power down mode, the LED signals are logic high.
Note 2: LEDS1-0’s initial value comes from the EEPROM If there is no EEPROM, the default value of the
The RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB is compliant with PCI Express Base Specification Revision 1.1,
and runs at a 2.5GHz signaling rate with X1 link width, i.e., one transmit and one receive differential pair.
The RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB supports four types of PCI Express messages: interrupt messages,
error messages, power management messages, and hot-plug messages. To ease PCB layout constraints,
PCI Express lane polarity reversal and link reversal are also supported.
6.1.1. PCI Express Transmitter
The RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB’s PCI Express block receives digital data from the Ethernet
interface and performs data scrambling with Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) and 8B/10B coding
technology into 10-bit code groups. Data scrambling is used to reduce the possibility of electrical
resonance on the link, and 8B/10B coding technology is used to benefit embedded clocking, error
detection, and DC balance by adding an overhead to the system through the addition of 2 extra bits. The
data code groups are passed through its serializer for packet framing. The generated 2.5Gbps serial data is
transmitted onto the PCB trace to its upstream device via a differential driver.
6.1.2. PCI Express Receiver
The RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB’s PCI Express block receives 2.5Gbps serial data from its
upstream device to generate parallel data. The receiver’s PLL circuits are re-synchronized to maintain bit
and symbol lock. Through 8B/10B decoding technology and data de-scrambling, the original digital data
is recovered and passed to the RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB’s internal Ethernet MAC to be
transmitted onto the Ethernet media.
6.2. LED Functions
The RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111D(L)-VB supports four LED signals in four different configurable operation
modes. The following sections describe the various LED actions.
6.2.1. Link Monitor
The Link Monitor senses link integrity, such as LINK10, LINK100, LINK1000, LINK10/100/1000,
LINK10/ACT, LINK100/ACT, or LINK1000/ACT. Whenever link status is established, the specific link
LED pin is driven low. Once a cable is disconnected, the link LED pin is driven high, indicating that no
network connection exists.