VSC7511
4-Port Layer-2 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
INTRODUCTION
The VSC7511 Industrial IoT Ethernet switch contains four ports, each configurable as either an integrated 10/100/
1000BASE-T PHY or a 1G SGMII/SerDes. In addition, there is an option for either a 1G/2.5G SGMII/SerDes Node Pro-
cessor Interface (NPI) or a PCIe interface for external CPU connectivity. The NPI/PCIe can operate as a standard Ether-
net port. The device provides a rich set of Industrial Ethernet switching features such as fast protection switching, 1588
precision time protocol, and synchronous Ethernet. Advanced TCAM-based VLAN and QoS processing enable delivery
of differentiated services. Security is assured through frame processing using Microchip’s TCAM-based Versatile Con-
tent Aware Processor. In addition, the device contains an 8051 CPU for simple operation of the switch.
The device supports the following main port configurations.
TABLE 1:
Ports
MAIN PORT CONFIGURATIONS
1G CuPHY/SGMII 2.5G NPI
PCIe
4 + NPI
4 + PCIe
4
1
—
1
4
—
General Features
• 1.75 megabits of integrated shared packet memory
• 4 x 1G SGMII or integrated copper PHY ports
• Fully nonblocking wire-speed switching performance with weighted random early detection (WRED) for all frame
sizes
• Eight QoS classes and eight queues per port with strict or deficit weighted round robin scheduling
• Dual leaky bucket policers, per QoS class and per port
• Dual leaky bucket policers, flow-based through TCAM matching
• DWRR and strict priority egress scheduler/shaper and 9 dual leaky bucket shapers per egress port.
• TCAM-based classification entries for Quality of Service (QoS) and VLAN membership
• TCAM-based host identity entries for source IP guarding
• TCAM-based security enforcement entries
• TCAM-based egress tagging entries
• L1 Synchronous Ethernet
• VeriTime™—Microchip’s patent-pending distributed timing technology that delivers the industry’s most accurate
IEEE 1588v2 timing implementation for both one-step and two-step clocks
• Audio/Video bridging (AVB) with support for time-synchronized, low-latency audio and video streaming services
• Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE 802.3az)
• VCore-Ie™ CPU system with integrated 250 MHz 8051 CPU with 64 KB internal storage
• PCIe and 2.5G SGMII NPI for external CPU register access
• Device overheat protection
• Hardware loop detection
• Integrated fan controller
• Internal shared memory buffer (8 queues per port) Integrated 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet copper transceiver
(IEEE 802.3ab compliant) with the industry's only non-TDR-based VeriPHY™ cable diagnostics algorithm
• Patented line driver with low EMI voltage mode architecture and integrated line-side termination resistors
• Wake-on-LAN using magic packets
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