User Manual
BCM1250/BCM1125/BCM1125H
10/21/02
B r o a d c o m C o r p o r a t i o n
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1250_1125-UM100CB-R
Section 1: Introduction
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S e c t i o n 1 : I n t r o d u c t i o n
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The SiByte Broadband Processors form a family of high performance system-on-a-chip parts targeted at
network centric tasks. Examples include:
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In-line packet processing
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Exception processing
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Switch control and management
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Higher layer switching and filtering
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Protocol conversion (VoIP Gateway)
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Network appliances (file servers, web cache, print servers)
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VPN access, firewalls, gateways
The different members of the family target different performance points and applications, while retaining
software compatibility. This User Manual covers the dual-processor BCM1250, and the uni-processor
BCM1125 and BCM1125H parts.
All the parts use the SB-1 CPU core. This is a high performance implementation of the standard MIPS64
instruction set architecture. The core supports a 4-issue enhanced skew pipeline and can dispatch up to two
memory and two ALU (Integer, Floating point or MIPS-3D) instructions per cycle.