Atlanta, GA; Supercomm 2002 — (press release excerpt) — this week, Broadcom Corp. announced the industry's first single-chip high-performance DSL router solution for the customer premises equipment (CPE) market.

The BCM6345 integrates a full-rate ADSL transceiver and analog front-end (AFE) with support for Annex A, B and C, along with a high performance MIPS32 core, into a single all-CMOS chip. The chip also includes a built-in 10/100 Ethernet MAC/PHY with Auto-MDIX, an MII bus for connectivity to external multi-port Ethernet switches, and a 12 megabit per second (Mbps) USB 1.1 transceiver. In addition, the chip provides hardware Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Segmentation And Reassembly (SAR) functionality for enhanced quality of service (QoS).

Development kits for the BCM6345 come complete with hardware reference designs and software support for Wind River VxWorks and Red Hat Linux and are available today.

 
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