Date: 04/01/2012

World's first 28nm multicore communications processor delivered by Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation has introduced the 28 nanometer (nm) XLP 200-Series, a new line of low-power multicore communications processor for applications such as enterprise, service provider 4G/LTE, data center, cloud computing and software defined networking (SDN) environments.

Broadcom claims its XLP 200-Series delivers up to 400 percent faster performance than competing solutions while lowering power consumption by up to 60 percent (as compared to competitive 65nm and 40nm solutions). Broadcom also claims that the XLP 200-Series is the only communications processor family in the industry to combine quad issue, quad threading and 2 GHz out-of-order execution capabilities with integrated networking and security acceleration — all in a single-chip solution.

XLP 200-Series integrates grammar processing engine, a fourth generation regular expression (RegEx) engine, and a broad range of autonomous encryption and authentication processing engines to deliver comprehensive Layer 7 deep-packet inspection (DPI) capabilities and complete offload of the compute-intensive security functions from the CPU cores.

The XLP 200-Series is sampling now with production volume slated for 2H 2013.