Communication Processor

Axxia Communication Processor

Designed for the increased performance and lower power demands of next-generation mobile and enterprise networks
Asymmetric multicore architecture based on innovative Virtual Pipeline™ technology to deliver deterministic performance

Features

PowerPC® Compute Complex
– Up to Quad PowerPC® 476 cores
– Up to 1.8GHz operating frequency
o 32KB I / 32KB D L1 cache per core
– 512KB L2 cache per core w/ECC
Acceleration Engines
– Packet Processing (20 Gb/s)
– Security Engine (10 Gb/s)
– RegEx Engine (3 Gb/s)
– Traffic Manager/Scheduler (up to 6 levels of
hierarchy)
System Communication – Virtual Pipeline technology enables efficient intra-system communication for deterministic performance
System Cache / Memory Subsystem
o Up to 4 MByte of System Cache
o Dual/Single 72-bit DDR3
Serial High-Speed Interfaces
o 8x SGMII SerDes based (4-pin)
o 2x 10GbE (XAUI based)
o 3x PCI Express® up to 5.0 Gb/s per lane up to 3
ports (x1/x2/x4)
o IEEE® 1588 v2 support and Synchronous Ethernet
o SRIO up to 3.125 Gb/s (x1/x4)
Technology – 45nm SOI (Silicon on Insulator) technology
Software Development Environment
o Eclipse-based Axxia Software Environment (ASE)
    provides comprehensive tool-suite for rapid code
    development
o Production-ready Axxia Development Kits (ADK) for
   wireless infrastructure and multi- service access
   applications
Axxia Development Kit
o Hardware Platform containing Axxia
     Communication Processor, memory and external
     interfaces (SFP/SFP+, PCIe,USB, JTAG)
o Full software environment including ADK, ASE, Run-
     Time Environment and Linux BSP
Package Specification
o 1295-pin FC-BGA
o 899-pin FC-BGA (ACP342x only)

Combines up to four PowerPC® 476FP cores with up to 20 Gb/s of fast path throughput, regardless of packet size, system loading, or protocol
Axxia family is available in a range of pin-compatible configurations for a variety of networking applications including 3G/4G mobile access systems such as NodeB and eNodeB, mobile broadband Radio Network Controller (RNC) applications, and enterprise gateways
Contains high-performance multicore PowerPC® processor complex capable of running at up to 2GHz and an array of function-specific hardware accelerators
Acceleration engines deliver fast path processing without unnecessarily taxing the PowerPC complex

Device	ACP3421	ACP3423	ACP3442	ACP3448

Example Application	Multi-Radio BTS & SMB		High Capacity Multi-Radio BTS	MGW, Enterprise
Datapath Throughput (IMIX)	5/10 Gb/s	10 Gb/s	10 Gb/s	20 Gb/s
PPC Cores	2 @ up to 1.6 Ghz	2 @ up to 1.6 Ghz	4 @ up to 1.8 Ghz	4 @ up to 1.8 Ghz
L2 Cache Total	1 MB	1 MB	2 MB	2 MB
Sys Cache Total	2 MB	2 MB	2 MB	4 MB
Main Memory (DDRIII) Classification Memory	1 x 72b 1 x 9b	1 x 72b 1 x 9b	1 x 72b 2 x 9b	2 x 72b 2 x 9b
System Clock Rate	200/400 MHz	400 MHz	400 MHz	400 MHz
Wirespeed Security (IPsec)	2.5 Gb/s	5/10 Gb/s	5/10 Gb/s	10 Gb/s
Supported TM Queues	32K	32K	64K	1M
I/O Interfaces	8x SGMII 3x PCIe SRIO	8x SGMII 3x PCIe SRIO 1x XAUI	8x SGMII 3x PCIe SRIO	8x SGMII 3x PCIe SRIO 2x XAUI
Security Engine	Optional	Optional	Optional	Optional
Pinout Compatible	Yes (899-pin package also available)	Yes (899-pin package also available)	Yes	Yes