Date: 07/09/2009

New ECONA CNS3XXX family of processors from Cavium for home networking apps

Cavium has launched new family of processors targeting home networking applications
The ECONA CNS3XXXX is a high-speed connection featured device supporting data speed of 100Mbs to 1GbpsAccess. This SoC is integrated with most used communications interfaces. The security features available in this ARM core based chip family include Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus, Intrusion Prevention, and VPN. Cavium claims, ECONA CNS3XXXX reduces BOM cost to ultralow level due to the on-chip availability of most wanted features and offers glueless wired and wireless connectivity to a host of CE devices.

The processor core powering this SoC is an ARM11 core operating at 700 MHz. ECONA CNS3XXXX also boasts enough availability of video and audio coding accelerators, which include 10 Hardware accelerators, support for voice and video codecs. Cavium highlights its low power consumption capabilities by using advanced power management unit.

The range of on-chip I/Os include 3x GE, Dual SATA, USB, PCIe-all with integrated PHY, LCD, Camera, SDIO, SPI, TDM / PCM, and I2S.

The suggested applications of this new processor SoC include Residential Gateways, Home Media Servers / NAS, wireless Access Points, Consumer Electronics, Internet Radio, Printers / Print Servers, Digital Photo Frames, Internet Video Streamers, Embedded Processing, Industrial / Medical / Automotive

Other highlights/features include:

Supports FTTx, Docsis3.0+
Flexible, Open architecture for seamless 3rd party integration
Integrated power regulators for efficient power supply distribution
Power consumption from <1W to 2.5W
Complete multichannel voice solution including DECT
Integrated support for remote field upgrade and customer support
64-bit High-Performance AXI Bus
Integrated VFP, MMU, DSP and Multi-Media extensions
Jazelletechnology for Java byte code acceleration
Support for multi-protocol processing including gigabit switching, hardware NAT and QoS, content inspection, security, IPS, AV, 2D graphics and RAID storage
Wireless UART, SPI, PCIe(802.11a/b/g/n), I2C
Crossbar 8 x 12 architecture for simultaneous transactions between 8 masters and 12 slaves
High Bandwidth Internal Bus
SW and HW solution for virtualized environment via Java acceleration
Linux apps can be isolated, protected and supported for live upgrade

For further details visit www.cavium.com