MSP7100 Series
PMC-2052442, Issue 2
Copyright PMC-Sierra, Inc. 2006
All rights reserved. Proprietary and Confidential to PMC-Sierra, Inc. and for its customers' internal use.
Residential Gateway Solution
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
The MSP7100 Series Residential Gateway Solution is a development
platform for carrier-grade triple-play residential or small/medium
business (SMB) gateways. Designed for OEM/ODMs, the RG platform
provides reliable video routing performance, home network QoS and
remote management support.
This comprehensive solution is built on top of PMC-Sierra's high perfor-
mance MSP7100 Series SoCs that deliver the throughput and packet
processing performance essential to support broadband bandwidth
growth and uses the advanced PM73255 RG SDK for Linux 2.6 that
delivers the performance and QoS required by advanced triple play
residential gateways.
The standard tools and programming environment provided with the
kit reduce OEM/ODM time-to-market. The kit's high performance
production-quality firmware is ready for product integration. As well,
since MSP7100 Series processors integrate a standard MIPS32 core,
developers can utilize conventional software tools, reducing devel-
opment time and guaranteeing software re-use across the product
line.
As part of PMC-Sierra's family of solutions for the digital home, the
MSP7100 Series RG platform is available in variants that support all
key WAN technologies including ADSL2+
1
, VDSL2
3
and Ethernet
4
.
Furthermore, all emerging LAN technologies such as MoCA, HPNA,
HomePlug, and WiFi are supported.
The platform's powerful SDK comes with production-ready software
components including a multi-threaded networking software solution
package (SSP) that incorporates a high-performance Linux networking
stack and standard software development environment and tools, a
Voice Gateway SSP, a management framework SSP that allows easy
and reliable integration of management agents, and a reference appli-
cation software package.
Included with the kit is complete documentation for board devel-
opment and software programming.
KIT BENEFITS
High performance, flexible, and scalable development kit
Comprehensive support for VoIP
High performance: wire-rate FE bridging and IP forwarding of small
packets, without penalty of lack of programmability based on a
conventional MIPS32 ISA and programming methods
Advanced QoS functions to enable robust service delivery over multi-
service home networks
Enhanced control and visibility points to enable strong remote
management and diagnostics (TR069/098)
High processing headroom essential for ensuring deterministic
performance and enabling future expansion of gateway capabilities
Low total BoM cost achieved by integrating the VoIP ATA function, an
SoC with integrated voice processing, ADSL2+ WAN and USB
interfaces, and other hardware features required for next-
generation RGs with no requirement for adding an external DSP
processor
Preliminary
Product Brief
RG RESIDENTIAL GATEWAY SOLUTION VARIANTS
1
MSP7120-based ADSL2+ Kit
2
MSP7130-based VDSL2 Kit
3
MSP7130-based Ethernet/MoCA Kit
MSP7100 Series Residential Gateway Solution
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Operations Head Office:
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100-2700 Production Way
Burnaby, BC V5A 4X1 Canada
Tel: 1.604.415.6000
Fax: 1.604.415.6200
INCLUDED IN THE GATEWAY PLATFORM
RG board, schematics, gerbers, configuration utilities, and
executable binary image
Complete PM73225 RG SDK for Linux 2.6
RG board design manual
RG software user manuals
HARDWARE SUMMARY
2 FXS ports
1 full-function FXO port
USB 2.0 port selectable to be Host or Device
ADSL2+, VDSL2, Ethernet, and MoCA WAN uplinks
4 Ethernet switched LAN ports
Wireless 802.11 b/g/e/n, and MoCA LAN port
Support for HPNA and HomePlug LAN technologies through add in
cards
INTERFACES
13 LEDs for status information
Standby switch to halt Internet traffic instantaneously
2 RJ11 phone ports for the FXS interface
1 RJ11 phone port for ADSL2+ and FXO interface
1
1 RJ45 ports for WAN uplink
4 RJ45 ports for Ethernet LAN ports
1 USB 2.0 port
1 F connector for MoCA
4
12 V DC power input
Push-button reset switch
Power switch
MSP7100 SERIES SOCS
400-MHz enhanced MIPS32 core with DSP extensions
Packet processing acceleration
32-bit, 166 MHz multi-service bus
Multi-level priority queuing for each bus subsystem
Dual 10/100 MAC with MII/RMII
PCI v2.3 host interface
USB 2.0 host/device with integrated PHY
Glueless interface to DDR1/2 memory
External Local Bus (ELB) interface for Flash memory
ADSL 2+ PHY
Dual UART
SPI/MPI and Two-wire serial interfaces
20 GPIOs
ADD-ON CARDS
MoCA plug-in card through mini-PCI connectors
HPNA add-on card through MII connection or Ethernet port
External HomePlug module connection through Ethernet interface
PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS
PCB 13.5" x 7"
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT
Refer to PMC-2052607, PM73225 Software Development Kit Product
Brief for full details about the RG solution SDK for Linux 2.6:
PM73736 Multi-Threaded Networking SSP
PM73746 Management Framework SSP
PM73756 Reference RG Application SSP
PM73716 Voice Gateway SSP
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