ETC NP3705

Product Brief
nP3705
2.5-Gbps Network Processor with Integrated Traffic Manager
Benefits
Overview
• High integration for Significant form factor, cost, and
power savings
• Hardware-based Traffic Manager for guaranteed performance
• Software compatibility with
previous generation nP
devices: nP37x0, nP34xx,
nP7250
• Simple programming model
for rapid development and
quick time-to-market
The nP3705 family of integrated network processors is a derivative of the nP3700 family that
expands AMCC’s nP5TM technology to lower
speed, cost-sensitive access applications.
of feature-rich, wire-speed, Layer 2-7 applications
by combining the simplified nPcoreTM programming model of all AMCC NPUs with open, layered
nPsoft Services, advanced development tools, rich
reference application libraries, and both simulation
and real hardware-based development systems.
Because the nP3705 allows easy API access to onchip coprocessors for complex tasks, customer differentiating features can be created faster and with
fewer lines of code.
Developed over several generations of traffic management and network processor products, nP5
unites the flexibility of the industry’s highest performance network processing nPcore with the
most widely deployed and mature traffic management technology. This unique combination
enables developers to deliver extremely finegrained control of subscriber traffic, without
impacting the ability to perform complex protocol
inter-working at media speeds. The nP3705 family
is designed from the ground up to provide software compatibility with the earlier generations of
AMCC Network Processors. The single-stage programming model dramatically simplifies software
development and troubleshooting for quickest
time-to-market.
Features
Supports 2.5-Gbps Traffic
• nP5 Technology
• Mix and match Gigabit Ethernet, POS, and ATM
traffic
• Standalone or as a line card in a larger system
Proven nPcore Architecture
• 1 nPcore at 700 MHz optimized for network processing
• Single-stage single-image programming model
• High-speed RLDRAM-II or FCRAM-II memory
interface for payload and context storage
• Per-flow metering and statistics for millions of
flows
Industry Leading Integration and Performance
The nP3705 is a 2.5-Gbps network processing and
traffic management solution. In addition to highperformance packet processing and fine-grained
traffic management, the nP3705 includes specialized coprocessors that perform classification, policing, and coherent database management for
unparalleled line-rate performance. The devices
are offered in different speed grades to provide a
range of performance and cost options tuned to
the application.
Integrated Traffic Manager
• Per-flow queuing and scheduling
• Sophisticated, fine-grained scheduling algorithms
Standards-Compliant Interfaces
• 14 FE/2 GE with Integrated MAC
• OIF SPI-3, OIF SPI-4.2 (1/4 rate)
• ATM Forum Utopia 2 / PL-2
Rapid Application Development
AMCC's nPsoftTM development environment
speeds the development, debugging, and delivery
RL/FC-DRAMII
RL/FC-DRAMII
RL/FC
DRAM
QDR SRAM
SPI-3
Channelized
2xOC-3 / STM-1,
6 xT3/E3
GE
AMUR
QAB
SPI-3
SPI-4.2
SPI-3
GE
DSL Modem Bank or
PON
Utopia-2
DSL Modem Bank or
PON
nP3705
Flexible Tributary
Interface
Circuit
Emulation
Services
Utopia-2
nP3705
GE
QDR SRAM
CPU
Control Plane
Figure 1. Channelized 2xOC-3/STM-1 Multi-Service Line Card with CES
Figure 2. 2.5Gb/s Broadband Access Line Card
nP3705
Applications
MISSION Software
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At the core of the MISSION value proposition is software that implements a wide variety of protocols on the chip set and enables flexible
potential additions to these base software features. AMCC provides
extensive offerings for the programmable nP37xx Integrated Network
Processors, including both rich off-the-shelf application software and a
complete development environment for extending this application
base if desired.
OC-12/STM-4 ASAP applications ATM, IMA, FR, PPP, ML-FR/PPP
Up to 2.5Gbs line cards in access systems - DSLAM, FTTx
OC-12 SAR, ATM to Packet IWF
L3-L7 Applications
MISSIONTM — Multi-Service Internetworking Solution
The nP3705, combined with AMCC’s Amur (S1215) channelized framer
and ATM/HDLC/GFP processor extend AMCC’s MISSION multi-service
offering to applications up to OC-12/STM-4 rates. This solution enables
the development of single multiprotocol solutions in place of multiple
single-protocol solutions. The MISSION architecture provides equipment vendors with solutions that enable their customers to save on
both capital and operational expenditures (CapEx/OpEx).
• The MISSION application software includes ready-to-use Multi-Service Switching software – ATM UNI/NNI, Inverse Multiplexing over
ATM (IMA), Multi-Link Frame Relay (ML-FR), Multi-Link PPP (ML-PPP),
Frame Relay and FR to ATM Interworking (FR IWF), MPLS Martini
encapsulation – as well as OEM customer-extensible libraries for the
hardware-resident aspects of higher layer applications such as IPv4
and IPv6 routing, and Layer 2 packet switching.
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Policy
Engine
SPI-3
12xFE
2xUL2/PL2
Scatch
Pad
Hash
Engine
XSC
SPU
Memory Access Unit
nPcore @ 700 Mhz
24 Tasks
FE/GE
MACs
Traffic
Manager
Statistics
Engine
Line
Interfaces
(CSM)
Packet Transform
Engine
SPI4.2
Soft TM
Queuing
Scheduling
QDR SRAM / LA-1
SPI-3 + GE
2xGE
LINE INTERFACES
2 x FE
JTAG
RL/FC-DRAMII
18
(PTE)
HOST CPU
DEBUG
FCN / QAB
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Figure 3. nP3705 Block Diagram
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San Diego, CA 92121
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F 858.450.9885
www.amcc.com
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