Intel® IXP400 Software

Introduction

The IXP4XX product line and IXC1100 control plane processors have a unique distributed processing architecture that features the performance of the Intel XScale® Core and up to three Network Processor Engines (NPEs). The combination of the four high-performance processors provides tremendous processing power and enables wire-speed performance at both the LAN and WAN ports. The three NPEs are designed to offload many computationally intensive data plane operations from the Intel XScale core. This provides ample “processing headroom” on the Intel XScale core for developers to add differentiating product features. Software development is made easier by the extensive Intel XScale core tools environment that includes compilers, debuggers, operating systems, models, support services from third party vendors, and fully documented evaluation hardware platforms and kits. The compiler, assembler, and linker support specific optimizations designed for the Intel XScale microarchitecture, the ARM* instruction set v.5TE and Intel DSP extensions.

For a list of IXP42X product line features, please see the Intel® IXP42X Product Line of Network Processors and IXC1100 Control Plane Processor Datasheet.

For a list of IXP46X product line features, please see the Intel® IXP46X Product Line of Network Processors Datasheet.

1.6Related Documents

Users of this document should always refer to the associated Software Release Notes for the specific release. Additional Intel documents listed below are available from your field representative or from the following Web site:

http://www.intel.com/design/network/products/npfamily/docs/ixp4xx.htm

Document Title

Document #

 

 

Intel® IXP400 Software Specification Update

273795

Intel® IXP42X Product Line of Network Processors and IXC1100 Control Plane

252480

Processor Developer’s Manual

 

 

 

Intel® IXP42X Product Line of Network Processors and IXC1100 Control Plane

252479

Processor Datasheet

 

 

 

Intel® IXP46X Product Line of Network Processors Datasheet

306261

Intel® IXP46X Product Line of Network Processors Developer’s Manual

306262

Intel® IXP4XX Product Line of Network Processors Specification Update

306428

Intel® IXDP425 / IXCDP1100 Development Platform Specification Update

253527

 

 

Intel® IXDP465 Development Platform Specification Update

306509

ARM* Architecture Version 5TE Specification

ARM DDI 0100E

(ISBN 0 201 737191)

 

 

 

PCI Local Bus Specification, Revision 2.2

 

 

Universal Serial Bus Specification, Revision 1.1

 

 

UTOPIA Level 2 Specification, Revision 1.0

 

 

IEEE 802.3 Specification

 

 

IEEE 1149.1 Specification

 

 

Programmer’s Guide

IXP400 Software Version 2.0

April 2005

 

Document Number: 252539, Revision: 007

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