Product Collection
Intel® Ethernet Controller X540
Marketing Status
Discontinued
Launch Date
Q4'12
Expected Discontinuance
LOD: March/31/2020; LSD: June/30/2020
Lithography
40 nm
TDP
14 W
Operating Temperature Range
0°C to 55°C
Max Operating Temperature
55 °C
Minimum Operating Temperature
0 °C

Supplemental Information

Datasheet
Description
See PCN 117290 for EOL timelines.
Fully integrated 10GBASE-T controller designed for LAN-on-Motherboard (LOM) & Converged Network Adapters (CNA)
Product Brief

Networking Specifications

Port Configuration
Dual
Data Rate Per Port
10GbE/1GbE/100Mb
System Interface Type
PCIe v2.1 (5.0 GT/s)
NC Sideband Interface
Yes
Jumbo Frames Supported
Yes
Speed & Slot Width
5.0 GT/s, x8 Lane
Interfaces Supported
100Base-T, 1000Base-T, 10GBase-T

Package Specifications

Package Size
25mm x 25mm

Intel® Virtualization Technology for Connectivity

On-chip QoS and Traffic Management
Yes
Flexible Port Partitioning
Yes
Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq)
Yes
PCI-SIG* SR-IOV Capable
Yes

Advanced Technologies

Intel® Virtualization Technology for Connectivity (VT-c)
VMDq, SR-IOV
Fiber Channel over Ethernet
Yes
MACsec IEEE 802.1 AE
Yes
IEEE 1588
Yes
Supported Under Intel vPro® Technology
No
iWARP/RDMA
No
Intel® Ethernet Power Management
No
Intel® Data Direct I/O Technology
Yes
Intelligent Offloads
Yes
Storage Over Ethernet
iSCSI, FCoE, NFS