MDS212 Datasheet, PDF (1/111 Pages) Zarlink Semiconductor Inc – 12-Port 10/100Mbps Ethernet Switch

Features
• 12 10/100Mbps Autosensing, Fast Ethernet ports
with Reduced MII Interface
• 32-bit wide bi-directional pipe at 100Mhz provides
6.4Gbps pipe to connect two MDS212 chips
• Supports up to 3.572 Mpps system throughput
using non-blocking architecture
• High performance Layer 2 packet forwarding and
filtering at full wire speed.
• Very low latency through single store and forward
at ingress port and cut-through switching at
destination ports
• Port Trunking and Load Sharing for high
bandwidth links between switches
• On-chip address lookup engine and memory for
up to 2K MAC addresses
• up to 64K using management CPU memory
• Supports up to 4k MAC addresses with 24 ports
(2-chip solution)
• Up to 16K using external buffer memory
• Parallel Flash interface for fast self initialization
• Supports packet filtering and port security
• System wide filtering
• Static MAC destination and source address
filtering
• VLAN for multicast/broadcast filtering
• Protocol filtering
• Local port filtering
• Aging control for secure MAC addresses
• Provides 256-port and ID Tagged Virtual LANs
(VLANs) 802.1Q
MDS212
12-Port 10/100Mbps
Ethernet Switch
Data Sheet
October 2003
Ordering Information
MDS212CG 456 Pin HSBGA
0°C to 70°C
• ID Tagging Insertion/Extraction
• Supports IP Multicasting through IGMP Snooping
• XpressFlow Quality of Service (QoS), IEEE
802.1p, supports 4 Level transmission priorities,
weighted fair queuing based packet scheduling,
user mapping of priority levels and weights
• Full duplex Ethernet IEEE 803.2x flow control
minimizes traffic congestion
• Supports back-pressure flow control for half
duplex mode
• Flooding and Broadcasting control
• Link status and TX/RX activity through serial LED
interface
• Standard software modules available:
• Browser, GUI, and text menu
• IEEE 802.1d Spanning Tree Algorithm
• SNMP management
• Telnet for remote control console
• Automatic Booting via TFTP Protocols.
• Remote Monitoring (RMON) and storage for a
management agent
• IGMP for IP multicast
• GVRP, GMRP
• Packaged in 456-Pin Ball Grid Array
SDRAM
CPU
Flash
SRAM
CPU Bus
MDS212
MDS212
64 bit
XPipe 32 bit
64 bit
SRAM
12
12
4 x 10/100
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Fast Ethernet
Figure 1 - 24 10/100Mbps Port System Configuration
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