Product Brief

Marvell® 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 Marvell Scalable mGig controllers integrates the following key
comprise a high-performance,Scalable mGig, Ethernet features of Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE), Precision Time
MAC+PHY Controllers designed to support the following Protocol (PTP)/1588v2, Synchronous Ethernet (Sync-E), a
network rates: 10GBASE-T/5GBASET/ 2.5GBASE-T/1000BASE- hardware-security enabled boot function†, support for multi-
T/100BASE-TX/10BASE-Te. When equipped with a PCI Express purpose I/Os AQC113-AQC115C, support for all PoE standards
Gen 4 x4, this family of Scalable mGig Ethernet MAC+PHY up to 100W, and support for jumbo packets up to 16KB in all
Controllers easily handle the 10 GbE line-rate performance. The operating modes. The AQC113 support all six network rates
AQC113, AQC114, AQC114CS, AQC115C device family combines (10G and down to the lowest rates), while the AQC114/114CS
a mGig Ethernet MAC Controller with a full-reach, low-power, devices support five network rates (5G and down to the lowest
highperformance, multi-gigabit, single-port Gen 4 Ethernet rates), and the AQC115C (2.5G and down to the lowest rates).
Alaska PHY transceiver into a single, monolithic device that is AQC113 and AQC114 devices are a scalable mGig, single-port
designed using the latest 14nm, multi-gate, FinFET process device, and these are housed in a compact 12 mm x 14 mm, 0.8
technology. mm pitch, 224-pin, flip-chip Ball Grid Array (FCBGA) package.
The AQC114CS and AQC115C devices are pin-compatible,
Marvell Scalable mGig controllers are compliant with both the multigigabit, singleport PHYs, and all of these devices are
IEEE® 802.3an/bz standard and the NBASE-T™ Alliance PHY housed in a compact 7 mm x 7 mm, 0.8 mm pitch, 64-pin,
Specification to perform all of the physical layer functions flip-chip Chip Scale (FCCSP) package.
required to implement transmission over 100 meters of twisted
pair (TP) cabling.

Block Diagram

Host-PCIe

x4 PCI Express Gen 4 PHY

PCI Express Gen 4 Data Link Layer

SMBus Rx DMA Tx DMA

CPU 192KB RX BUFFER 80KB TX Buffer

Instr. RAM Rx Offloads Tx Offloads

SPI

Data RAM Pkt Filter Scheduler

10G MAC

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

Network 10G mGig

Key Features

Features 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 PCIe • Improves CPU utilization and network performance
interrupts

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

Hardware-security enabled boot function • S devices support eFuse key hash programmed into the chip
providing a secured boot feature for those devices running under a
security-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 and
2.5 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 Features Benefits

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 for Utilities: ROM programming and Windows Installer
motherboards, PCs, Workstations, docking station, NAS, Router,
Gateways and other embedded applications Boot Options: UEFI and PXE

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

higher.

Device Description Ordering Part Number

AQC113 & AQC114 (12 mm x 14 mm Package)

AQC113 6-Speed Commercial Temperature Grade, RoHS 6/6* AQC113-B1-C

AQC113 6-Speed Industrial Temperature Grade, RoHS 6/6* AQC113-B1-I

AQC114 5-Speed Commercial Temperature Grade, RoHS 6/6** AQC114-B1-C

AQC114 5-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