Axxia® Communication Processor AXM5500
  • Industry’s First High Performance ARM Multicore Communication Processor
  • Power efficient architecture meets the demands of multi-radio base stations and 4G/LTE networking equipment
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The Axxia® Communication Processor AXM5500 product family is designed to accelerate performance and increase power efficiency for mobile networks. The Axxia 5500 series combines 16-core ARM processors and interconnect with LSI’s specialized networking accelerators to optimize performance and power-efficiency. The Axxia 5500 series offers networking service providers with more capable and intelligent wireless infrastructure equipment, including base stations, cell site routers and gateways.

Features

  • ARM® Processor Compute Complex
      – Up to 16x ARM® Cortex™-A15 processors
      – CPU clock speed up 1.6GHz
      – 32KB I / 32KB D L1 cache per core
      – 2MB with ECC shared L2 cache per quad core cluster
  • System Communication
      – ARM® CoreLink™ CCN-504 Cache Coherent Network is QoS-aware and optimized for networking workloads
         to 20 Gbps)
      – LSI Virtual Pipeline™ technology enables efficient autonomous packet processing and deterministic performance
      – Traffic Mgr/Scheduler (up to 6 levels of hierarchy)
  • Acceleration Engines
      – Packet Processor (Up to 50 Gb/s) and is used to enable any-to-any       message passing architecture  
      – Traffic Manager (7 levels of Hierarchy)
      – Security Protocol Processor (Up to 20 Gb/s)
      – Content Inspection Engine (Up to 7 Gb/s)
  • High Capacity Ethernet Switching
      – Non-blocking L2 switching (Up to 160 Gb/s)
  • Package
      – 1680-Ball FCBGA, 42.5-mm × 42.5-mm

Benefits

  • Combining LSI’s networking expertise, specialized acceleration engines and Virtual Pipeline® technology with ARM’s power-efficient Cortex™-A15 processors and CoreLink™ CCN-504 Cache Coherent Network interconnect on a leading process technology, the AXM5500 solution enables more capable and intelligent mobile networking equipment, including multi-radio base stations, mobile backhaul equipment and gateways.
  • The AXM5500 product family achieves its performance efficiency by providing a flexible combination of general purpose processors and specialized acceleration engines that are interconnected via LSI’s Virtual Pipeline™ message-passing protocol which enables efficient, user-defined packet processing.
  • The AXM5500 product family integrates high capacity Ethernet switching to drive significant reductions in power, board space and bill of material (BOM) cost. Supporting up to 16 10GbE interfaces, the AXM5500 product can support a variety of intra-board, intra-chassis and subtending connectivity topologies with a single SoC.
  • The AXM5500 product family is supported with a comprehensive tool suite and production-quality protocol processing software modules for wireless infrastructure applications. The LSI Axxia is ideal for OEMs to meet accelerated time-to-market goals and efficiently leverage their development resources.

 

FEATURES AXM5512-B AXM5516-B
CPU Complex 12x ARM® Cortex™-A15 16x ARM® Cortex™-A15
L2 Cache 2 MB per CPU cluster 2 MB per CPU cluster
L3 System Cache 8 MB 8 MB
System Clock 450MHz 450MHz
Packet Processor Up to 50 Gb/s Up to 50 Gb/s
Traffic Manager 7 levels of hierarchy 7 levels of hierarchy
Content Inspection Engine 7 Gb/s 7 Gb/s
Security Protocol Processor 20 Gb/s 20 Gb/s
Ethernet Switching 160 Gb/s 160 Gb/s
Interfaces Ethernet support up to:
16x 10GbE (XFI, SFI, KR)
20x 1-GbE (SGMII)
2x QSGMII

PCIe/sRIO:
2x PCIe Gen2: x4/2/1 2x
sRIO version 2.2: x2/1		 Ethernet support up to:
16x 10GbE (XFI, SFI, KR)
20x 1-GbE (SGMII)
2x QSGMII

PCIe/sRIO:
2x PCIe Gen2: x4/2/1
2x sRIO version 2.2: x2/1
Synchronous Ethernet and
IEEE 1588-2008 		Yes Yes
Secure System Complex Optional Optional
Package 1680-Ball FCBGA
42.5-mm × 42.5-mm		 1680-Ball FCBGA
42.5-mm × 42.5-mm
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