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Tsi578™
Serial RapidIO® Switch
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FEATURES
• Error management extensions
– Proactive issue notification
• Port flexibility fulfills multiple I/O
bandwidth requirements:
– Up to eight 4x mode ports or sixteen 1x
mode ports
– Port frequency configuration to 1.25,
2.5, and 3.125 Gbits/s
– Support for mixed speed and
width configurations
• Integrated high-speed, full-duplex
SerDes with 8b/10b encoding
– Receiver equalization, transmit
pre-emphasis, transmit voltage swing
– IEEE 1149.6 support
– Lane swap to ease signal layout routing
• Enhanced non-blocking internal switching fabric
– Traffic management through
scheduling algorithms
– Performance monitoring on individual ports
– Programmable buffer depth
– Provisions to eliminate low priority
packet starvation
• Supports packet routing tables for
64,000 endpoints
Other Device Capabilities
• I2C Interface:
– Master and Slave
– Configuration through register initialization
• Hot Swappable ports
– Enables use in field replaceable
blade applications
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SP2
(4x or 1x)
Multicast
Engine
SP1
(1x only)
SP3
(1x only)
SP4
(4x or 1x)
SP6
(4x or 1x)
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SP5
(1x only)
SP8
(4x or 1x)
Enhanced Internal
Switching Fabric
SP9
(1x only)
SP10
(4x or 1x)
SP11
(1x only)
SP12
(4x or 1x)
SP13
(1x only)
SP7
(1x only)
SP14
(4x or 1x)
Registers
I2C
Master and
Slave Devices
Up to 4 Serial RapidIO Ports - 1x/4x Mode
or
Up to 8 Serial RapidIO Ports - 1x Mode
Tsi578 enhances system scalability and
performance through support for mixed
port configurations and extensive fabric
management features.
SP0
(4x or 1x)
Up to 4 Serial RapidIO Ports - 1x/4x Mode
or
Up to 8 Serial RapidIO Ports - 1x Mode
Serial RapidIO Interfaces
• 80 Gbits/s aggregate bandwidth
• Low latency with cut-through capability
• Enhanced SerDes for low power solution
• RapidIO Interconnect Specification
(Revision 1.3) compliant
• High performance hardware multicast
JTAG
SP15
(1x only)
IEEE1149.6
Boundary Scan
Device Overview
The Tsi578 is a third generation RapidIO switch supporting 80 Gbits/s aggregate bandwidth. The Tsi578
is part of a family of switches that enable customers to develop systems with robust features and high
performance at low cost.
The Tsi578 provides designers and architects with maximum scalability to design the device into a wide
range of applications. Flexible port configurations can be selected through multiple port width and
frequency options.
Building on the industry leading Tsi568ATM Serial RapidIO Switch, the Tsi578 contains all the benefits
of its predecessor plus enhances the fabric switching capabilities through the addition of multicast,
traffic management through scheduling algorithms, programmable buffer depth, and fabric performance
monitoring to supervise and manage traffic flow.
Embedded applications further benefit from the ability to route packets to over 64,000 endpoints
through hierarchical lookup tables, independent unicast and multicast routing mechanisms, and error
management extensions that provide proactive issue notification to the fabric controller. In addition,
the Tsi578 supports both in-band serial RapidIO access and out-of-band access to the full fabric
register set through the I2C interface.
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Typical Applications
BENEFITS
• Scalability: Single solution for mesh,
fabric, and aggregated systems
• Performance: Improved system and
distributed processing performance
• Power: SerDes implementation for low
power solution
The Tsi578 can be used in many embedded communication applications. It provides chip-to-chip
interconnect between I/O devices and can replace existing proprietary backplane fabrics for
board-to-board interconnect which improves system cost and product time-to-market.
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Specifications
• Technology: 0.13um
• Voltage: 1.2V and 3.3V
• Low power consumption
• Package: 675 ball, 27mm x 27mm,
1mm ball pitch FCBGA
• Rated for commercial and
industrial temperatures
• Forward compatible with the Tsi568A
Serial RapidIO Switch allowing easy
migration for existing systems.
Target Markets
• Wireless Infrastructure
– Node B, Radio Network Controller,
Media Gateway
• Communications Wireline Infrastructure
– Multiservice WAN Switches, 1 to 10 Gbit
Ethernet Switches, 1 to >10 Gbit Routers,
DSLAMs
• Storage
– Storage Area Networks, Network
Attached Storage, High-Performance
Work Stations, Multi-service Access
Nodes, Carrier-grade VoIP
• Video Infrastructure
– Broadcast, imaging, and encoding
– Architecture Standards
– ATCA, MicroTCA, VXS, VPX
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Tsi578
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The Tsi578 provides traffic aggregation through packet prioritization when it is used with RapidIOenabled I/O devices. When it is in a system with multiple RapidIO-enabled processors it provides
high performance peer-to-peer communication through its non-blocking switch fabric.
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