Product BriefMarvell® Scalable mGig AQC113/AQC114/AQC114CS/
AQC115C
PCIe 4.0 10GbE, 5GbE, 2.5GbE & 1GbE Scalable mGig Ethernet Controllers
Overview
The Marvell® AQC113/AQC114/AQC114CS/AQC115C devices
comprise a high-performance,Scalable mGig, Ethernet
MAC+PHY Controllers designed to support the following
network rates: 10GBASE-T/5GBASET/ 2.5GBASE-T/1000BASET/100BASE-TX/10BASE-Te. When equipped with a PCI Express
Gen 4 x4, this family of Scalable mGig Ethernet MAC+PHY
Controllers easily handle the 10 GbE line-rate performance. TheAQC113, AQC114, AQC114CS, AQC115C device family combinesa mGig Ethernet MAC Controller with a full-reach, low-power,
highperformance, multi-gigabit, single-port Gen 4 Ethernet
Alaska PHY transceiver into a single, monolithic device that isdesigned using the latest 14nm, multi-gate, FinFET process
technology.
Marvell Scalable mGig controllers are compliant with both theIEEE® 802.3an/bz standard and the NBASE-T™ Alliance PHY
Specification to perform all of the physical layer functions
required to implement transmission over 100 meters of twistedpair (TP) cabling.

Marvell Scalable mGig controllers integrates the following key
features of Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE), Precision Time
Protocol (PTP)/1588v2, Synchronous Ethernet (Sync-E), a
hardware-security enabled boot function†, support for multipurpose I/Os AQC113-AQC115C, support for all PoE standards
up to 100W, and support for jumbo packets up to 16KB in all
operating modes. The AQC113 support all six network rates(10G and down to the lowest rates), while the AQC114/114CS
devices support five network rates (5G and down to the lowestrates), and the AQC115C (2.5G and down to the lowest rates).
AQC113 and AQC114 devices are a scalable mGig, single-port
device, and these are housed in a compact 12 mm x 14 mm, 0.8mm pitch, 224-pin, flip-chip Ball Grid Array (FCBGA) package.
The AQC114CS and AQC115C devices are pin-compatible,multigigabit, singleport PHYs, and all of these devices arehoused in a compact 7 mm x 7 mm, 0.8 mm pitch, 64-pin,
flip-chip Chip Scale (FCCSP) package.

Block Diagram
Host-PCIe
x4 PCI Express Gen 4 PHY

SPI

PCI Express Gen 4 Data Link Layer
SMBus

Rx DMATx DMACPU192KB RX BUFFER

80KB TX Buffer

Instr. RAM

Rx Offloads

Tx Offloads

Data RAM

Pkt Filter

Scheduler

10G MAC
10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100M/10M
6-Speed Ethernet PHY
Network 10G mGig

Key FeaturesFeatures

Benefits

Single-chip solution• Integrated PCIe, MAC+PHY minimizes board space and power usage

PCI Express Gen4, Gen3 or Gen2

• Supports line rate up to 16.0 GT/s, 8.0GT/s and 5.0GT/s per lane

Supported bus width• Supports Gen 4 x1, Gen 3 x4, Gen 3 x2, or Gen 3 x1, Gen 2 x2

Message-Signaled Interrupts (MSI and MSI-X) and legacy INTx PCIeinterrupts• Improves CPU utilization and network performance

Sideband SMBuse interface (Slave SMBus interface)• Communication and management function

Hardware-security enabled boot function• S devices support eFuse key hash programmed into the chipproviding a secured boot feature for those devices running under asecurity-oriented operating system

External SPI FLASH interface with optional FLASH-less operation• Reduce BOM cost as one or no FLASH devices required• Enables firmware download/upgrade and FLASH image loading
during manufacturing

PHY Features

Benefits

Integrated Marvell Alaska PHY featuring NBASE-T technology• Incorporates Marvell’s Alaska PHY technology that delivers 10 GbE
network connectivity speed through Cat 6a. It delivers 5 GbE and2.5 GbE network connectivity speeds through 100 meters of Cat
5e, or better cabling, enabling higher data rates with zero change
to legacy cabling

Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) support• PHY power savings

Advanced cable diagnostics• On-chip high-resolution cable analyzer

Audio Video Bridging (AVB) and PTP/1588v2• Management of time-sensitive traffic packets

MAC FeaturesBenefits

LSO, RSS, DCA and header checksum• Increased network performance and lower host CPU utilization

Wake-on LAN (WoL) power management• Supports lower power modes

Quality of Service (QoS) support• Up to eight traffic classes and Data Center Bridging (DCB)

Jumbo Frames (up to 16 Kbytes)• Improved network performance with reduced CPU utilization

IPv4/v6, IPv6/TCP, and IPv6/UDP checksum offload• Offloads calculations and improved CPU usage

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)• Supports diagnostics, error and operational information messages

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)• Resolves network layer addresses into link layer addresses

Multicast Domain Name System (mDNS)• Resolves host names to IP addresses

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Keepalives (KA)

• Supports link checking between devices

Target Applications
Feature: Marvell AQtion power leading -edge solutions formotherboards, PCs, Workstations, docking station, NAS, Router,
Gateways and other embedded applications

Utilities: ROM programming and Windows Installer
Boot Options: UEFI and PXE

Drivers: Windows 10 and Windows 11 (64-bit) and Linux 3.10 andhigher.

DeviceDescription

Ordering Part Number

AQC113 & AQC114 (12 mm x 14 mm Package)
AQC1136-Speed Commercial Temperature Grade, RoHS 6/6*

AQC113-B1-C

AQC1136-Speed Industrial Temperature Grade, RoHS 6/6*

AQC113-B1-I

AQC1145-Speed Commercial Temperature Grade, RoHS 6/6**

AQC114-B1-C

AQC1145-Speed Industrial Temperature Grade, RoHS 6/6**

AQC114-B1-I

AQC114CS & AQC115C (7 mm x 7 mm Package)
AQC114CS

5-Speed Commercial Temperature Grade, RoHS 6/6**

AQC114CS-B1-C

AQC114CS

5-Speed Industrial Temperature Grade, RoHS 6/6**

AQC114CS-B1-I

AQC115C

4-Speed Commercial Temperature Grade, RoHS 6/6***

AQC115C-B1-C

AQC115C

4-Speed Industrial Temperature Grade, RoHS 6/6***

AQC115C-B1-I*6-Speed = 10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100M/10M**5-Speed = 5G/2.5G/1G/100M/10M***4-Speed = 2.5G/1G/100M/10M

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Marvell_AQtion AQC113/AQC114CS/AQC115C_PB Revised: 08/22