PMC-Sierra,Inc.
PM3380
Gigabit Ethernet Switch Port Controller
• Hardware statistics collection supports
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FEATURES
RMON-I (nine groups), Ethernet MIB,
• Control and Management Interface
provides standard interface for non
real-time access to data structures
(such as SNMP and RMON
applications).
• Monolithic intelligent Gigabit Ethernet
and SNMP agent functions.
Switch Port Controller.
• All statistics registers and data
• Integrates an IEEE 802.3z-compatible
structures accessible through the CMI.
Gigabit MAC.
• Supports the implementation of
• May be used alone or in combination
with other devices to build 10/100 or
Gigabit switches.
Spanning Tree (IEEE 802.1D) by
exchanging BPDU packets on all ports.
• Customer product differentiation is
enabled by applications using CMI
calls to leverage EXACT system
resources.
VLAN
• Supports the Gigabit EXACT™ Bus
Protocol for device interconnect.
• Up to 4094 IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tags
with support for 4094 FIDs.
COMPATIBILITY
• May be used alone or in combination
with other device to build high density
Gigabit switches.
• Up to 1022 active VLANs.
• Interworks with the PM3370 Octal
10/100 Switch Port Controller.
• Ingress filtering of packets.
• Shared and independent learning.
• Interworks with the PM3390 Eight Port
EXACT Bus Switch Matrix.
• PM3390 EXACT Bus Switch Matrix
allows non-blocking expansion up to
16 Gigabit ports.
• GARP, GVRP, GMRP packet
identification and forwarding to
external CPU for processing.
PACKAGING
• Layer 2 line rate address lookup
capability for all Ethernet port
configurations supported.
• Provides a standard five signal
P1149.1 JTAG test port for boundary
scan board test purposes.
• Tag insertion and removal for unicast
and multicast packets.
• Store-and-forward switching using
output association input buffering for
efficient memory use without Head Of
Line (HOL) blocking.
• Implemented in low power 3.3 V,
CMOS technology with 5 V tolerant MII
interface.
PRIORITY
• Class of service supported via IEEE
802.1D (formerly 802.1p) with two
levels of priority.
• Available in a 352-pin Ball Grid Array
(BGA) package.
• Supports up to 8,000 MAC addresses.
• 1022 multicast groups available.
Bitmask per group defines
membership.
• EXACT Bus is compatible with
common serial devices for simple
system stacking using coax or twinax
cable.
BLOCK DIAGRAM
EXACT Bus
Reference Clock
System Clock
• Support for IEEE 802.1D bridging and
spanning tree algorithm in an external
processor.
Egress
Queue
Transmit
Control
• Embedded SmartPath™ Processor
supports value-added datapath
operations.
Manager
Gigabit
Media
Address
Resolution
Logic
SmartPath
CPU
• Two 32-bit memory interfaces for
flexible combinations of SSRAM and
EPROM allow cost optimization of
different applications.
Access
Control
Gigabit
Ethernet
Interface
EXACTBus
Input Port
EXACT
Ring
Interface
Ingress
Queue
Ingress
DMA Unit
Receive
Control
• Programmable packet pattern
matchers for identification of ARP,
RARP, ICMP, and other protocol or
packet types.
Manager
EXACTBus
Output Port
Micro
Interface
Microprocessor
Interface
MANAGEMENT
Memory
Port
Memory
Port
Global
Registers
JTAG
JTAG
• System Interface provided in CMI to
support standard SNMP software
packages, or the porting of existing
management software.
Controller
Controller
SDRAM
SSRAM
PMC-980236 (R7)
PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL TO PMC-SIERRA, INC., AND FOR ITS CUSTOMERS’ INTERNAL USE
1999 PMC-Sierra, Inc.