Intel® IXP42X product line and IXC1100 control plane processors—Overview of Product Line
Intel® IXP42X Product Line of Network Processors and IXC1100 Control Plane Processor
DM September 2006
34 Order Number: 252480-006US
Figure 4. Intel® IXP421 Network Processor Block Diagram

B1565-04

UART
921Kbaud Timers
Interrupt
Controller
USB
Device
V1.1
GPIO
Controller
UART
921Kbaud PMU
(AHB)
Test Logic
Unit
66.66 MHz Advanced Peripheral Bus
Queue Status Bus

Ethernet

NPE A

Ethernet MAC

WAN/Voice NPE

UTOPIA
(Max 4 xDSL PHYs)
AAL, HSS
JTAG
32-Bit
16-Bit
16 GPIO
32-Bit
MII-0
North/South
AHB Bridge
North AHB
Arbiter
133.32 MHz x 32 bits South Advance High-Performance Bus
South AHB
Arbiter
Queue
Manager
8 KB SRAM
SDRAM
Controller
8 - 256 MB

Intel XScale

Core

PCI
Controller
Expansion
Bus
Controller
AHB/APB
Bridge

Intel XScale

Processor

266 MHz
32 KB Data Cache
32 KB Instruction Cache
2 KB Mini-Data Cache
UTOPIA 2
HSS-1
HSS-0
133.32 MHz x 32 bits North Advance High-Performance Bus