® Brief SINGLE-CHIP IEEE 802.11A/B/G MAC/BASEBAND/RADIO FOR PCI EXPRESS® AND SDIO APPLICATIONS FEATURES SUMMARY OF BENEFITS
• Slashes size, cost and power for PCs, DSL Gateways and • Reference Designs Available Gaming Platforms • PCIe MiniCards • PCIe Half-MiniCards • Single-chip 11 a/b/g • SDIO modules • 802.11a/b/g MAC/PHY • PCIe MiniCard Bluetooth Combo • Integrated dual-band a/b/g radio • Software Support • PCIe™ 1.1 bus support • Windows® 2K, XP, Vista • SDIO (SD 4-bit, 1-bit, and SPI) host interface support at clock • Linux® operating systems speeds up to 50 MHz • IEEE 802.1x • CCXv4, CCX v5 • Highly integrated with on-chip 1.2V regulators for radio and baseband requires only a single 3.3V external supply • In volume production today • Two-layer, single-sided PCB • Reduces RBOM by 50% compared to previous 802.11b/g • Package solutions • 10 mm x 10 mm 144-pin FBGA package (0.8 mm pitch) ® • Combo Bluetooth ready • Ordering information • Broadcom’s bluetooth coexistence support (2 and 3-wire • BCM94312KFBG - 10 mm × 10 mm 144-pin FBGA (lead interfaces) free) • Shared antenna architecture requires only two-antennas for WLAN and Bluetooth operation on a single card • Multi-BSSID support (up to 16 SSIDs) • Consumes 40% less power than previous solution • BroadRange™ and improved RX sensitivity • Security: WEP, WPA Personal, WPA2 Personal, WMM, WMM-PS (UA-PSE), TKIP, and AES hardware acceleration OVERVIEW
BCM4312 WEP/AES Encryption
2.4-GHz PA and Front-End Circuit PCIe PCIe
IEEE 802.11 Dual Band IEEE 802.11a/b/g
(2.4-GHz/5-GHz) Direct Baseband MAC Buffers Conversion Radio SDIO SDIO
5-GHz PA and Front-End Circuit Radio SW Reg
2.5V VDDP Silicon Backplane LDO
1.2V Radio LDO PA Ref 3.3V LDO 1.2V Core Crystal Oscillator and PLL SPROM, GPIO, JTAG Interfaces LDO PMU
20-MHz Crystal SPROM JTAG GPIO
BCM4312 Block Diagram
The BCM4312 provides one-chip IEEE 802.11a/b/g MAC, baseband, receive sensitivity, extending device range and enabling Wi-Fi users to and direct conversion dual-band radio functions for wireless LAN maintain high-speed wireless connections throughout the entire home. connectivity supporting data rates from 1 Mbps to 54 Mbps in the 2.4- Two host interfaces are available on the BCM4312: PCI Express and GHz or 5-GHz bands. SDIO. The PCI Express (PCIe) high-speed serial bus option supports x1 Broadcom’s revolutionary one-chip architecture implemented in a bulk lane operation at 2.5 Gbps in each direction. Using the PCI Express CMOS process greatly reduces the external components typically interface offers substantial benefits over the conventional parallel PCI required for IEEE 802.11a/b/g implementations, resulting in significant bus, including better Quality of Service (QoS), Error Detection, Power cost, power, and footprint savings. The extreme integration of the Management, Hot Plug/Hot Swap capability, and simplification of board BCM4312 enables low rest-of-BOM (RBOM), singled-sided, two-layer layout. PCB-based designs. A key feature of the BCM4312 is Broadcom's leading-edge BroadRange™+ digital signal processing technology for improved
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