System on-a-Chip (SoC) switch family offers industry-leading integration and performance in a small footprint.The device offers up to 16 multilayer 10GbE ports. Offering the industry's highest level of integration, the BCM5340X/BCM5341X family of switches has embedded SerDes supporting KX, KR, XFI, XAUI, RXAUI, SGMII and QSGMII modes, as well as an optional powerful 600 MHz ARM A9 single-core processor. The BCM5340X/BCM5341X is ideal for cost-sensitive connectivity applications such as embedded designs for control/data plane applications, or WebSmart switches for Small and Medium Businesses (SMB).The BCM5340X/BCM5341X device family offers multiple I/O configurations and speeds (1G/2.5G/5G/10G) that address key segments of connectivity. With a 2MB integrated packet buffer and the industry's lowest power consumption at 500 mW per 10G port, the BCM5340X/BCM5341X family of switches is designed to reduce overall system costs.The optimized I/O map reduces system design effort and enables low-cost printed circuit board design. The BCM5340X/BCM5341X device family offers many advanced features, such as IEEE 802.1Q VLAN, VLAN translation, enhanced Denial of Service (DoS) protection, IPv4 and IPv6 support, an advanced ContentAware™ Engine, and IEEE 802.1p Quality of Service (QoS).
Feature
Highly integrated 16-port 10 Gb/s Ethernet switch SoC with integrated 10G SerDes
Diverse selection of natively supported interfaces (KX, KR, XFI, XAUI, RXAUI, SGMII, QSGMII)
Support for port-extender applications (HiGig™) with Priority-based Flow Control (PFC)
Timestamping support with IEEE1588 transparent clock (TC) and Synchronized Ethernet (SyncE), as well as OAM (IEEE 802.1ag)
Nonblocking architecture line rate for all packet sizes L2
IPv4/IPv6 L3 packet classification IPv4 and IPv6 L3 routing support
Enhanced DoS attack statistics gathering
EEE support
Optional high-performance ARM A9 processor
Enables multiple SerDes configurations of 1G, 2.5G, 5G and 10G
Applications