Hardware Design Guidelines—Intel®IXP43X Product Line of Network Processors

Table 1. List of Acronyms and Abbreviations (Sheet 2 of 2)

Term

Explanation

 

 

PMU

Performance Monitoring Unit

 

 

SME

Small-to-Medium Enterprise

 

 

SSP

Synchronous Serial Protocol

 

 

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter

 

 

USB

Universal Serial Bus

 

 

VTT

Termination Voltage Supply

 

 

1.4Overview

The Intel® IXP43X Product Line of Network Processors is a highly integrated device, capable of interfacing with most common industry standard peripherals, required for high-performance control applications.

Note: This document discusses all features supported on the IXP43X network processors. Refer to the Intel® IXP43X Product Line of Network Processors Datasheet for details on feature support listed by processor.

Some of the key features of the IXP43X network processors, when used as a single-chip solution for embedded applications are as follows:

Intel XScale® Processor (compliant with Intel® StrongARM* architecture) up to 667 MHz

32-bit PCI interface Master/Target 33 MHz

Two Universal Serial Bus (USB) V2.0 Host Controller

DDRI-266 SDRAM or DDRII-400 SDRAM—

Support for 16 MB, minimum for DDR II/I, 32 MB minimum for DDRII-400; 1 GB, maximum for DDR II/I, 512 MBs maximum for DDRII-400

User-enabled ECC.

16bit Data / 24bit Address Expansion Bus Interface

One UART interface

Two NPEs

UTOPIA Level 2 Interface

Synchronous Serial Port Interface (SSP)

One High-Speed Serial Port Interfaces (HSS)

Network interfaces that can be configured in the following manner: Note 1

Two MII interfaces

One MII interface + 1 UTOPIA Level 2 interface

MII interfaces are: Note 1

802.3 MII interfaces

Single MDIO interface to control the MII interfaces

UTOPIA Level 2 Interface is: Note 1

Eight-bit interface

Up to 33-MHz clock speed

Five transmit and five receive address lines

 

Intel® IXP43X Product Line of Network Processors

April 2007

HDG

Document Number: 316844; Revision: 001US

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Intel IXP43X manual Overview, List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Sheet 2