Axxia Communication Processor AXE2502
  • Enables datacenter control plane acceleration with production-ready protocol processing modules
  • Improves system performance by fully offloading security, networking, and application intelligence
  • Enables and accelerates OpenFlow-/SDN-based virtualized datacenters
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The Axxia Communication Processor AXE2502 solution is designed to meet the performance, integration, bill of material (BOM) cost, and power demands of next-generation Enterprise networks. Using the LSI innovative, asymmetric multicore architecture, which leverages general purpose processors with acceleration engines that deliver fast path processing, the AXE2502 delivers fully deterministic performance with up to 20 Gbps of data throughput, while integrating many support component devices into a single chip solution.

Key Applications

Switching and routing line cards, datacenter security, and datacenter control plane offload acceleration, caching, cloud computing, and virtualization

Features

  • PowerPC® Complex
      – 2 x PowerPC 476FP cores
      – PowerPC ISA-V2.05 (Book IIIE) 32-bit      implementation
      – CPU clock speeds up to 1.33GHz
      – 32 KB I- / 32 KB D- L1 Cache per core
      – 256 KB L2 Cache per core w/ECC
  • Acceleration Engines
      – Packet processing/manipulation/ integrity (up 
         to 20 Gbps)
      – Security Engine (10 Gbps), RegEx Engines (3Gbps)
      – Traffic Mgr/Scheduler (up to 6 levels of hierarchy)
  • System Communication
      – LSI’s Virtual Pipeline™ technology enables efficient       intra-system communication for deterministic       performance and is used to enable any-to-any       message passing architecture  
  • Package Specification
      – 899 pin, 31 mm x 31 mm FC-BGA package

Benefits

  • Saves server CPU cycles for application processing by fully offloading security, control plane ARP, IGMP messages, networking statistics, stateful/application aware firewall, QoS, and more
  • Flexible dataplane processing enables high performance support for new applications such as OpenFlow/Software Defined Network (SDN)
  • Combines up to two PowerPC 476FP cores with up to 20 Gb/s of fast path throughput, regardless of system loading or protocol
  • Software compatible with other Axxia Communication Processors, allowing manufacturers to disperse software costs across a range of solutions.

 

FEATURE AXE2502-1 AXE2502-5
Example Application Entry-level networking line cards/wireless access Datacenter control plane offload acceleration, cloud computing, and virtualization
Data Throughput (IMIX) 10 Gb/s
2 PPEs 		20 Gb/s
4 PPEs
PowerPC® Cores 2 @ up to 1.33 GHz 2 @ up to 1.33 GHz
L2 Cache Total 512 KB 512 KB
Sys Cache Total 2 MB 2 MB
System Memory (DDR3) 1x 36b 1x 36b
Classifier Memory (DDR3) 1x 9b 1x 9b
System Clock Rate 400 MHz 400 MHz
I/O Interfaces 8 x SGMII
2 x XFI/XAUI
2 x PCIe®		 8 x SGMII
2 x XFI/XAUI
2 x PCIe®
Secure System Complex (SSC) Optional Optional
Security Engine (SPP) Optional
Package Availability (pins) 899 pins
31 mm x 31 mm 		899 pins
31 mm x 31 mm
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