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IXP42X product line and IXC1100 control plane processors—Overview of Product Line
Intel
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IXP42X Product Line of Network Processors and IXC1100 Control Plane Processor
DM September 2006
30 Order Number: 252480-006US
2.0 Overview of Product Line
The Intel
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IXP42X Product Line of Network Processors and IXC1100 Control Plane
Processor contain an ARM
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V5TE-compliant microprocessor referred to as the Intel
XScale
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Processor. The Intel
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IXP42X product line and IXC1100 control plane
processors are designed with Intel 0.18-micron production semiconductor process
technology. This process technology, along with the compactness of the Intel XScale
processor, simultaneous processing of three integrated Network Processing Engines,
and numerous dedicated function peripheral interfaces enables the IXP42X product line
and IXC1100 control plane processors to operate over a wide range of low-cost
networking applications, producing industry-leading performance.
As indicated in Figure 1 through Figure 5, the IXP42X product line and IXC1100 control
plane processors combine many features with the Intel XScale processor to create a
highly integrated processor applicable to LAN/WAN based networking applications. The
IXP42X product line and IXC1100 control plane processors provide two MII interfaces;
a UTOPIA Level -2 interface; a USB v1.1 device controller with embedded transceiver;
a 32-bit, 33/66-MHz PCI bus; an 16-bit expansion bus; a 32-bit, 133-MHz SDRAM
Interface; two UARTs; two High-Speed Serial Interfaces and 16 GPIOs.
Unless otherwise specified, the functional descriptions apply to all of the IXP42X
product line and IXC1100 control plane processors. Refer to the table, “Processor
Features”, in the Intel
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IXP42X Product Line of Network Processors and IXC1100
Control Plane Processor Datasheet for an overview feature matrix that includes
software enables for all supported processors.