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Integrated Networking
By providing integrated on-chip networking, the UltraSPARC T2 processor is able to
provide better networking performance. All network data is supplied directly from and
to main memory. Placing networking so close to memory reduces latency, provides
higher memory bandwidth, and eliminates inherent inefficiencies of I/O protocol
translation.
The UltraSPARC T2 processor provides two 10 Gb Ethernet ports with integrated serdes,
offering line-rate packet classification at up to 30 million packets/second (based on
layers 1-4 of the protocol stack). Multiple DMA engines (16 transmit and 16 receive DMA
channels) match DMAs to individual threads, providing binding flexibility between ports
and threads. Virtualization support includes provisions for eight partitions, and
interrupts may be bound to different hardware threads.
Stream Processing Unit
The stream processing unit on each UltraSPARC T2 core runs in parallel with the core at
the same frequency. Two independent sub-units are provided along with a DMA engine
that shares the core’s crossbar port:
• A Modular Arithmetic Unit (MAU) shares the FGU multiplier, providing RSA
encryption/decryption, binary and integer polynomial functions, as well as elliptic
curve cryptography (ECC)
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• The cipher/hash unit provides support for popular RC4, DES/3DES, AES-128/192/256,
MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-256 ciphers
The SPU is designed to achieve wire-speed encryption and decryption on both of the
processor’s 10 GB Ethernet ports.
Integral PCI Express Support
The UltraSPARC T2 processor provides an on-chip PCI Express interface that operates at
4 GB/second bidirectionally through a point-to-point dual-simplex chip interconnect. An
integral IOMMU supports I/O virtualization and process device isolation by using the
PCI Express BDF number. The total I/O bandwidth is 3-4 GB/second, with maximum
payload sizes of 128 to 512 bytes. An x8 serdes interface is provided for integration with
off-chip PCI Express switches.
1.Supported in a future Solaris OS release