Multi-Core XLR® 500 Processor, Quad 1 Gigabit Ethernet Platform

Product Overview
NetLogic Microsystems’ MC4104 Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) is a standards-based production-ready solution for leveraging NetLogic Microsystems’ 500 series of Multi-Core, Multi-Threaded MIPS64® XLR® processors, ideally suited for Gigabit line-rate content-aware networking applications that require deep packet inspection and manipulation.

The MC4104 is a single-wide, extended-height form factor AMC card that is fully compliant with PICMG AMC.0 with IPMI 1.5 and AMC.1 type 4/AMC.2 Type E2. The XLR 500 processor series is architected to address IP networking, VoIP, wireless LAN, 3G Wireless, broadband, storage, routing and switching, security, and telecommunication applications, and the growing need to scale OEM’s software and hardware investments. The XLR processor brings together general purpose processing, high level programming, scalability with thread processing, intelligent packet management and the ability to combine control plane, data plane and security operations on a single processor.

Based on NetLogic Microsystems’ throughput optimized Multi-Core, Multi-Threaded architecture, the XLR 532, 516, and 508 processors integrate up to 32 fine-grain threads from eight MIPS64 CPUs, three full speed on-chip interconnects, large multi-level caches, autonomous security acceleration engines, quad memory controllers, quad Gigabit Ethernet MACs, and other integrated I/Os. The MC- 4104 leverages XLR’s quad RGMII ports and PCI-X high throughput data connections to deliver an ideal gigabit line-card solution.

Product Highlights

Physical & Environmental Single-width; Full Size AdvancedMC 180.6mm (D) x 73.5mm (W) x 28.95mm (H) PICMG AMC.0, AMC.1 Type 4, AMC.2 Type E2 PCIe® Rev 1.0a Next Generation Processor: NetLogic Microsystems XLR 500 Series Multi-Core XLR532, XLR516 or XLR508 Up to 8 cores - each 4 way Multi-Threaded 800MHz, 950MHz, 1GHz or 1.2GHz operation 64-bit MIPS6® ISA with enhanced instructions On-board Autonomous Security Acceleration Engine interface with bulk encryption/decryption and high-speed crypto support Flexible Memory Options DDR2 SO-RDIMM w/ECC 1 GByte default, optional to 4GB 128 MByte NOR Flash Front Panel 4 x 10/100/1000BaseT (RJ45) 2 Port Status LEDs per port (Green/Yellow) Hot Swap LED (Blue) Card Status LED (Green) Out of Service LED (Red) Power Good LED (Green) Reset Button

Software Support Production quality Boot loader and BSP NetLogic Microsystems XLR SDK for Linux (2.6.21) for rapid application development BSP/LSP for Wind River VxWorks (6.2) NetLogic Microsystems thin-executable (NetLogic MicrosystemsOS) for fast-path applications Reference applications to help realize the full power of the NetLogic Microsystems XLR Processor AMC.0 Standards compliant MMC Controller Software GNU Tool Chain and source-level debugger AMC Connector Fabric Interface: 1 x 4 PCI Express® and 2 x 1GE Network Interface: Up to 4 x 1GE to RTM Module Management: AMC.0 MMC, IPMI V1.5 Rear I/O Support (RTM) Configuration option to route one or more of the four GE ports to an RTM via SERDES Install time option to route these ports to ports 8-11 or 17-20, allowing wider choice of carrier boards Management & Debug JTAG, RS232 and Ethernet Warranty and Support 12 months

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NetLogic Microsystems MC4104 Port Mapping

Port No.	Region	Function
CLK1/TCLKA		N/C
CLK2/TCKLB		N/C
TCLKC		N/C
TCLKD		N/C
CLK3/FCLKA		PCI Express Clock (AMC.1)
0	Common Region	GbE (AMC.2 Type E2)
1		GbE (AMC.2 Type E2)
2		N/C
3		N/C
4	Fat Pipe Region	PCIe 4x (AMC.1 Type 4)
5
6
7
8	Fat Pipe Region	Option A: GbE SERDES for RTM
9		Option A: GbE SERDES for RTM
10		Option A: GbE SERDES for RTM
11		Option A: GbE SERDES for RTM
12		N/C
13	Extended Region	N/C
14		N/C
15		N/C
16		N/C
17		Option B: GbE SERDES for RTM
18		Option B: GbE SERDES for RTM
19		Option B: GbE SERDES for RTM
20		Option B: GbE SERDES for RTM

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