S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
nP3710
Specifications
Network Processing
Configurations
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POS and ATM
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Ethernet
• 10/100/1000 Ethernet Interface for Line or Host CPU
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4xGE, SPI-3, SPI-4.2
Any type of OC-n channelization
Flexible bandwidth allocation
For example, Full-duplex OC-48, OC-12 plus 12xOC-3
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Flexible bandwidth provisioning per user/per CoS
Dynamic bandwidth reuse
Highly granular flow control
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Deep Channelization
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Allows fractional T3/E3 and T1/E1 logical channels
Can receive interleaved chunks of jumbo packets, perform packet processing on
each chunk separately, and reassemble a jumbo packet in the fabric.
nPcore Performance
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Three nPcores running at up to 700 MHz
24 tasks per nPcore, total 72 tasks
64 KB instruction space, 16K instructions
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Dynamic Task Allocation
Zero Cycle Task Switching
Integrated Coprocessors
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Policy Engine — Efficient packet classification
SPU — Data coherency
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Hash Engine — Programmable engine to accelerate table lookups
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Programmable Polynomial (for example, CRC generation)
Statistics Engine
Atomic Programmable Statistics Collection
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Enables Single and Dual Leaky Bucket and Token Bucket policing on cells and
frames
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Traffic Management
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Standard Discard Mechanisms
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Per-flow queuing and scheduling:
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WRED
Dynamic queue limits
EPD and CLP marking
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128K ingress and egress flows
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Strict Priority, Min, WRR
Rate-shaping (CBR, VBR)
Up to 64K flows may participate in Flow Priority Queue grouping where four
egress flows are scheduled within the group according to pre-assigned weight
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Payload memory requirements
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Up to 2 million cells of storage
RLDRAM-II
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4K pipes
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Strict Priority, Min, Weight, Max, XON/XOFF
Supports DiffServ
512 subports
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Min, Max, WRR, XON/XOFF
64 subport groups
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Max bandwidth capping, XON/XOFF
nPsoft Development Environment
nPsoft Services
nPsoft Application Libraries
Reference source code for WAN and LAN protocols
nPsoft Toolkit
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Simplified multiprocessor programming model
Powerful NPU and CPU software and messaging framework
nPkernel NPU operating system
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Code development tools
Open APIs, tracking standards
Graphical simulators
Customizable debugger
Performance analysis
nP Workbench-3710
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Software development system
Modular interfaces
Product Availability
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Part Number: nP3710PBxB-yyy(x: C – Commercial, I – Industrial, yyy: 700 – 700 MHz)
Availability: Now
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Commercial and Industrial Temperature Rating
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