Irvine, CA — (press release excerpt) — Broadcom Corporation today announced that it is sampling the BCM112x line of highly integrated, single-core MIPS64 processors. The new processors target high-volume, cost-sensitive segments within next generation networking, wireless communications, storage equipment, server/web appliance and printer/imaging markets. Multiple standard operating systems are supported, including VxWorks, Linux, NetBSD, and QNX.

The BCM112x processors feature a single SiByte SB-1 CPU core, a 64-bit DDR memory controller, an on-chip 256KB L2 cache, two 10/100/1000 Ethernet MACs, a 32-bit 33/66MHz PCI bridge, and various other input/output peripherals. The SiByte SB-1 core is a deeply pipelined 64-bit MIPS CPU that can issue and execute up to four instructions per cycle. The BCM112x processors scale from 400 MHz to 1 GHz clock speed, with power consumption starting at less than four watts. These devices can perform wire-speed Layer 3 processing/routing in excess of five million packets per second, allowing them to support data rates of up to two full duplex one Gigabit per second (Gbps) links. The BCM112x's EJTAG interface and debug tools from Broadcom and Corelis provide customers an efficient way to debug their software and hardware.

Typical applications for the BCM112x processors include both data plane and control plane processing in routers, switches, remote access servers, DSLAMs, multi-service platforms, storage equipment, and wireless base stations. Additionally, high-volume, cost-sensitive applications, including networked printers and copiers and server/web appliances, benefit from the overall system performance and integration at low power that the BCM112x processors offer.

 
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