1Hardware Description

Overview

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The Interphase 4538 PMC E1/T1/J1 Communications Controller is a network interface PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) equipped with four software-selectable T1/E1/J1 interfaces (two are provided on the front panel). The 4538 board is intended for 2G and 3G wireless networks, Internet access, and Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) applications.

This chapter provides the functional specification of the 4538. It describes how the different main components of the board are arranged together.

The main components of the 4538 are:

The PowerQUICC II™ , a Motorola® MPC8260 RISC embedded processor.

The Tundra PowerSpan™ , a dedicated PCI bridge that controls the interface between the card and the host 32-bit PCI bus.

4 MB of 8-bit FLASH EEPROM memory.

32 MB or 64 MB of 64-Bit SDRAM system memory

The INFINEON QuadFALC™ framers, included in the 4538 communications controller, which control four independent T1/E1/J1 interfaces. For each interface, the QuadFALC includes a framer and a Line Interface Unit (LIU) with data and clock recovery.

The INTEL LXT971A, an IEEE compliant Fast Ethernet transceiver that supports 10BaseT/100BaseTX auto-negotiation and parallel detection.

4538 Hardware Reference Manual

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