MICROCHIP KSZ8695P

The CENTAUR KS8695P, Multi-Port PCI Gateway Solution, delivers a new level of networking integration, performance, and overall BOM cost savings, enabling original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to provide customers with feature-rich, low-cost solutions for the residential gateway and small office environment.

• Integration of a PCI arbiter supporting three external masters.
  • Allows incorporation of a variety of productivity enhancing system interfaces, including the expanding 802.11 a/g/b wireless LAN.
• High-performance ARM CPU (ARM9) with 8KB I-cache, 8KB D-cache, and a memory management unit (MMU) for Linux and WinCE support.
• XceleRouter technology to accelerate packet processing.
• Proven wire-speed switching technology that includes 802.1Q tag-based VLAN and quality of service (QoS) support.
• Five patented mixed-signal, low-powered Fast Ethernet transceivers with corresponding media access control (MAC) units.
• Advanced memory interface with programmable 8/16/32-bit data and 22-bit address bus with up to 64MB of total memory space for Flash, ROM, SRAM, SDRAM, and external peripherals.

• ARM9 High-Performance CPU Core
  • ARM9 core at 166MHz
  • 8KB I-cache and 8KB D-cache
  • Memory management unit (MMU) for Linux and WinCE
  • 32-bit ARM and 16-bit thumb instruction sets for smaller memory footprints
• 33MHz 32-Bit PCI Interface
  • Version PCI 2.1
  • Supports bus mastership or guest-mode
  • Supports normal and memory-mapped I/O
  • Support for miniPCI and cardbus peripherals
• Integrated Ethernet Transceivers and Switch Engine
  • Five 10/100 Ethernet transceivers and five MACs (1P for WAN interface, 4P for LAN switching)
  • 100BASE-FX mode option on the WAN port and one LAN port
  • Automatic MDI/MDI-X crossover on all ports
  • Wire-speed, non-blocking switch
  • 802.1Q tag-based VLAN (16 VLANs, full range VID)
  • Port-based VLAN
  • QoS/CoS packet prioritization support: per port, 802.1p, and DiffServ-based
  • 64KB on-chip frame buffer SRAM
  • VLAN ID and 802.1P tag/untag option per port
  • 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol support
  • Programmable rate-limiting per port: 0Mbps to 100Mbps, ingress and egress, rate options for high and low priority
  • Extensive MIB counter management support
  • IGMP snooping for multicast packet filtering
  • Dedicated 1K entry look-up engine
  • Port mirroring/monitoring/sniffing
  • Broadcast and multicast storm protection with % control global and per port basis
  • Full- and half-duplex flow control
• XceleRouter Technology
  • TCP/UDP/IP packet header checksum generation to offload CPU tasks
  • IPv4 packet filtering on checksum errors
  • Automatic error packet discard
  • DMA engine with burst-mode support for efficient WAN/LAN data transfers
  • FIFOs for back-to-back packet transfers
• Memory and External I/O Interfaces
  • 8/16/32-bit wide shared data path for Flash, ROM, SRAM, SDRAM, and external I/O
  • Total memory space up to 64MB
  • Intel/AMD-type Flash support
• Peripheral Support
  • 8/16/32-bit external I/O interface supporting PCMCIA or generic CPU/DSP host I/F
  • Sixteen general purpose input/output (GPIO)
  • Two 32-bit timer counters (one watchdog)
  • Interrupt controller
• System Design
  • Up to 166MHz CPU and 125MHz bus speed
  • 289 PBGA package (19mm x 19mm) saving board real estate
  • Two power supplies: 1.8V core and Ethernet RX supply, 3.3V I/O and Ethernet TX supply
  • Built-in LED controls
• Debugging
  • ARM9 JTAG debug interface
  • UART for console port or modem back-up
• Power Management
  • CPU and system clock speed step-down options
  • Low-power Ethernet transceivers
  • Per port power-down and Ethernet transmit disable
• Reference Hardware and Software Evaluation Kit
  • Hardware evaluation board (passes class B EMI)
  • Board support package including firmware source codes, Linux kernel, and software stacks
  • Complete hardware and software reference designs available

• Multi-port wireless VoIP gateway
• Wireless mesh network node
• RG + combo 802.11 a/b/g/n access point
• Multimedia gateway
• Digital audio access point
• Network storage element
• Multi-port broadband gateway
• Multi-port firewall and VPN appliances
• Combination wireless and wireline gateway
• Fiber-to-the-home managed CPE