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
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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)

Benefits

  • 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
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Axxia Communication Processor
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
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