“By leveraging our experience in mission-critical enterprise systems, AppliedMicro was able to bring efficiency and performance to consumer platforms with our advanced processing architecture to support triple play services in connected homes,” said Vinay Ravuri, Vice President and General Manager of the Processor Division at AppliedMicro. “Offloading and packet acceleration features on the SoC relieve the main CPU of routine tasks and the Queue Manager with Traffic Manager supports advanced features for the delivery of high quality multi-media content to every connected device in digital living rooms.”
Catalina also offers encryption and power management offloads eliminating the need for expensive external hardware and software complexity. These offloads offer hardware classification and forwarding and accelerate VPN applications making it ideal for home gateways. The power management feature includes a standby mode that can wake on any interface while consuming less than 200mW to meet emerging standards for energy efficiency. The APM86491 SoC also features 16/32-Bit DDR3 memory interface at up to 1066Mbps with optional ECC, and other industry-standard interfaces such as four UARTs and dual SDIO in a 19mm-x-19mm BGA package. The Catalina APM86491 PowerPC 465 core features floating point unit, 32KB L1 I-cache, 32KB D-cache and 256 KB L2 cache with hardware I/O coherency. It has a Turbo Security Engine with optional on-chip IPSEC/SSL/bulk data security acceleration engine, power island and Wake-on-X for power management, boot from NOR, NAND, and SATA-II, and a real-time clock. Android™ OS may be ported for growing software application demand. “Today’s consumer systems are required to support a growing array of digital content such as high-definition video that requires considerable processing horsepower. At the same time, manufacturers are looking for energy efficiency, competitive pricing and low BOM,” said Joseph Byrne, Senior Analyst at The Linley Group. “The QM/TM on AppliedMicro’s APM86491 intelligently directs packet traffic within the chip and to/from the I/Os to make processing digital media content more efficient. Combining this performance with low-power dissipation and a compelling price will entice consumer OEMs to engage with AppliedMicro for next-generation systems.”Samples of AppliedMicro’s APM86491 will be available in the third quarter and high-volume production pricing is under $20.
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