CONEXANT CX94610

Broadband Access - Client Side
DSL Solutions
High Speed ADSLplus Chipset with
Integrated Wireless LAN
CX94610
Conexant’s portfolio includes a comprehensive suite of semiconductor
solutions for broadband communications and the digital home.
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The CX94610 is part of a new family of pin compatible CPE products from
Conexant designed to leverage common DSP firmware, software, and hardware
efforts across multiple applications from DSL bridges to wireless enabled DSL
integrated access devices (IADs). Other products in this family include the
CX94410 (ADSLplus Chipset with Enhanced INP) and the CX94615 (ADSL2plus
Chipset with Integrated Wireless LAN and Voice). The chipset includes a highly
integrated analog front end (AFE) and a single-chip network processor with
802.11a/b/g MAC and baseband functionality. The CX94610 includes all the
interfaces required to enable feature-rich DSL CPE platforms.
An integrated 802.11 a/b/g MAC/baseband processor in the CX94610 interfaces
to Conexant’s CX5022x family of Wi-Fi® transceivers and RF front-end modules.
The optimized Wi-Fi architecture reduces the number of components and
improves manufacturing and quality with a repeatable and easily tunable Wi-Fi
front end. The CX94610 has been designed to accommodate advanced wireless
features such as push-button Wi-Fi Protectd Setup (WPS) to easily and securely
connect to wireless devices, and full Smart Antenna support for reliable Wi-Fi
coverage with both data and multimedia streams.
The CX94610 handles connections to an Ethernet PHY, Ethernet switch, or
HomePlug®/HomePNA™ through a 10/100 Ethernet MAC with MII interface.
Support for USB 2.0 host/device applications is available to attach peripherals
such as print servers, network attached storage, cameras, or other USB input
devices. Both parallel and serial flash (SPI) support is included in the CX94610 for
maximum design flexibility. The device interfaces to high speed SDRAM using a
16/32-bit wide connection and includes additional GPIOs for further expansion.
The CX94610 incorporates a flexible dedicated DSP, which supports multiple
DSL standards including ADSL, ADSL2, ADSL2plus (Annexes A, B, M, I, J and L),
using proven firmware to reduce time-to-market, and is fully programmable to
give OEMs a secure, stable path for future upgrades and features.
At the center of the CX94610 chipset is a high performance ARM™-based RISC
processor core, which supports industry standard operating systems such as
Linux® as well as Conexant’s full-featured, advanced ISOS® software suite. To
assist the processor, additional hardware engines, including a dedicated Wi-Fi
processor, virtual private network (VPN) engine, and hardware ATM SAR, are
integrated to support compute intensive tasks. The software solutions for the
CX94610 include full support for advanced features such as IPTV quality of
service (QoS), advanced firewall, and DSLHome™, the DSL Forum’s initiative to
standardize and simplify the provisioning and configuration of the DSL gateway.
Distinguishing Features
• Support for ADSL/ADSL2/ADSL2plus
• Integrated MAC/BB for high speed
802.11a/b/g interfaces to Wi-Fi transceivers
and RF front end modules
• Integrated high performance ARM
network processor
• Integrated power regulators to simplify
power supply design and reduce overall
system cost
• Support for USB 1.1 and 2.0 host/device
applications
• High speed SDRAM interface
• Hardware VPN engine supporting
DES, 3DES, AES), SHA-1, SHA-256,
and MD5 operations
• Open OS support for Linux, ISOS, and
third party stacks
• Support for extended impulse noise
protection (INP) for better IPTV quality
Part Number CX94610
Description
High Speed ADSLplus Chipset
with Integrated Wireless LAN
Broadband Access - Client Side
DSL Solutions
High
Speed
UART
USB 1.1 Host/Device
USB 2.0 Host/Device
Power Regulators
GPIOs
A/D Data
xDSL DSP/
AFE
Network Processor D/A Data
with
with ARM10,
Line Driver,
802.11a/b/g MAC/BB Control
Rx Amp,
and radio interface,
Tx/Rx
VPN engine,
Clock
Filters
Hard SAR
Loop Interface
10/100 Ethernet MII
SDRAM
CX94610
Flash, Flash
Parallel SPI
CX94610 Block Diagram
Product Features
• Support for ADSL/ADSL2/ADSL2plus (G.992.1, G.992.2, T1.413,
G992.3, G.992.5) with optimized AFE designed to meet ADSL
(TR-067) and ADSL2plus (WT-100) requirements
• Integrated field-proven xDSL DSP core with Annex A, B, M, I, J,
and L support
• PPP and tunneling features and routing information protocol (RIP)
• Simple network management protocol (SNMP) agent and tools
• Stateful packet inspection (SPI) firewall and network address
translation (NAT) security solution
• Integrated 10/100 Ethernet MAC with MII interface
• ATM SAR engine supporting unspecified bit rate (UBR), constant
bit rate (CBR) and other service classes
• Optimized power management with support for dying gasp
• UPnP for seamless network interconnectivity
• QoS features including support for extended (INP for better
IPTV quality
• Common customer development environment and tools across
ADSL to VDSL2 products
• Support for Parallel and Serial (SPI) Flash
• Reference designs available for rapid prototyping
• Support for DSLHome including TR-064, TR-068, TR-069, TR-098,
TR-104, TR-106, TR-110, TR-111, TR-124, TR-133
• Pin compatible option to the CX94615 Family (ADSL2plus Chipset with Integrated Wireless LAN and Voice) for platform flexibility.
• Memory and feature optimized binary and source software releases
for targeted deployments
• Advanced wireless features including WPS and
Smart Antenna support
Applications
• Wireless DSL bridge
• Easy to use HTML based graphical user interface (GUI) tools for
customization of user configuration web pages.
• Wireless DSL router
• Integrated Wireless DSL gateway
• Modular IP stack with comprehensive networking protocol support
including advanced bridging and routing capabilities, dynamic host
configuration protocol (DHCP), point-to-point protocol over Ethernet
(PPPoE), point-to-point protocol over ATM (PPPoA)
Conexant Product Portfolio
The company’s broad portfolio of semiconductor products also includes client-side DSL and cable modem solutions, home network processors,
broadcast video encoders and decoders, digital set-top box components and systems solutions, and dial-up modems. In addition to its IEEE 802.11a/b/gcompliant WLAN chipsets, software, and reference designs, Conexant offers a suite of networking components that includes solutions for applications
based on HomePlug® and HomePNA™. Additional products include a complete line of asymmetric and symmetric DSL central office solutions, which
are used by service providers worldwide to deliver broadband data, voice, and video over copper telephone lines.
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