- Designed to IEEE 802.3-2008 specification
- Configurable half-duplex and full-duplex operation
- Supports 10/100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, or 10/100/1000 Mbps IP cores
- Supports RGMII, GMII, and MII as well as providing connectivity to
- LogiCORE IP Ethernet 1G/2.5G PCS/PMA or SGMII using transceiver, SelectIO™ or Ten-Bit Interface (TBI)
- Optional MDIO interface to manage objects in PHY layers (MII Management)
- Optional frame filter with selectable number of table entries and optional statistics counters
- Supports Flow Control frames, Virtual LAN (VLAN) frames, jumbo frames, and allows a configurable interframe gap.
- Optional support for Priority-based Flow Control in both directions as defined in IEEE specification 802.1Qbb
- Optional fee-based Ethernet Audio Video Bridging (AVB) Endpoint designed to the following IEEE specifications
- IEEE 802.1AS-2011 and IEEE 1588-2008
Supports clock master functionality, clock slave functionality, and the Best Master Clock Algorithm (BMCA)
- IEEE 802.1Qav-2009 - Supports arbitration between different priority traffic and implements bandwidth policing