Data Sheet
MU9C Routing Coprocessor (RCP) Family
APPLICATION BENEFITS
DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS
• 28 million IPv4 packets per second supports up to 18
Gb Ethernet or 7 OC-48 ATM ports at wire speed
• 4K and 8K x 64-bit words
• 64-bit binary compares
• Exact match on MAC addresses
• 35 ns deterministic compare and output time
• 32-bit Data I/O port
• Processes DA and SA within 190 ns, supporting three ports
of 1 Gb or 34 ports of 100 Mb Ethernet at wire
speed
• 16-bit Match Address Output port
• Mixed mode L3 and L2 single search engine for two ports
at 1 Gb or 29 ports of 100 Mb Ethernet at wire
speed
• Address/Control bus directly controls device operations for
faster operation or higher throughput
• Seven selectable mask registers
• Synchronous operation
• Directly addresses external RAM containing
associated data of any width
• Cascadable for increased depth
• Extensive set of control states for flexibility
• JTAG interface
• Hardware control states directly address memory and
registers; Instruction and Status registers for optional
software control
• 100-pin LQFP package; 3.3 Volt operation
DQ31–0
/VB
/E
/CS1
COMPARAND REGISTER
AA Bus
PA3–0
/CS2
MASK REGISTERS 1–7
ADDRESS REGISTER
/W
CONFIGURATION REGISTER
/OE
STATUS REGISTER
/AV
CONTROL
AND
ADDRESS
DECODER
PRIORITY
ENCODER
AND
FLAG
LOGIC
INSTRUCTION REGISTER
AC Bus
DEVICE SELECT REGISTER
/DSC
/RESET
4 K x 64 Word
(MU9C4K64)
TCLK
TMS
TDI
/FI
/FF
/MI
/M F
/MM
8 K x 64 Word
(MU9C8K64)
Address Database
TDO
/TRST
Figure 1: Block Diagram
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June 1 2002 Rev. 6