Samsung Electronics unveiled a new ARM940T-based chipset that enables the addition of VPN and firewall functionality to ADSL modem router designs. The chipset consists of the S3C2510 ADSL communication processor, the S5N8950 DMT transceiver, and S5N8951 analog front end.

The S3C2510 processor is based on a 166MHz ARM940T RISC processor. Other on-chip functions include two 10/100 Mbps Ethernet controllers, PCI or CardBus (PCMCIA) host/agent controller, AAL5 SAR and UTOPIA L1/L2, two USB host ports, one USB device port with transceiver, two high-speed UARTs, one UART, DES and 3DES for IP security, IIC serial interface, and 64 programmable I/O ports.

An evaluation board (pictured below) is available, along with target OS support for uClinux and several other embedded operating systems.

Further details are available from Samsung's website.

 
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