BCM4705

® Brief
Intensi-fi™ Gigabit Ethernet Draft-802.11n Processor
FEATURES SUMMARY OF BENEFITS

• Advanced 500 DMIPS/300-MHz MIPS32® core • Turnkey hardware and software platform
• 4-way set associative 32-KB I-Cache • Extremely rapid development of draft 802.11n Wi-Fi® Access
• 2-way set associative 32-KB D-Cache Point/Routers.
• 4-KB Read-Ahead Cache • Full Linux router stack and software package
• MMU/TLB support for Linux®
• Flexible single-band, dual-band, and simultaneous dual-band
• Advanced Gigabit Ethernet MAC platform support
• Hardware TCP segmentation and Checksum offload • MIMO configurations supported
• GMII, RGMII, and MII PHY connectivity • 2x2, 2.4 GHz
• Two USB2.0 High-speed host ports • 2x2, 2.4/5.0 GHz
• 3x3, 2.4 GHz
• One USB2.0 High-speed device port • 3x3, 2.4/5.0 GHz
• DDR SDRAM controller • Maximum performance and high throughput
• 16/32-bit DDR266 and 133-MHz SDRAM support • Gigabit Ethernet LAN speeds
• 8 MB to 512 MB capacity • Over 190 Mbps TCP/IP Gigabit Ethernet to Wi-Fi bridging in
• Support for 8/16/32-bit wide memory devices single-band configuration
• Over 250 Mbps TCP/IP Gigabit Ethernet to Wi-Fi bridging in
• PCI 2.3 Host interface (32 bit/33–37 MHz) simultaneous dual-band configuration
• Supports four PCI bus masters
• Optional 5V-tolerant operation (PCI 2.2 support) • Flexible architecture for low cost and alternative designs
• Allows connection to external 10/100 switches for ultra low
• Advanced GPIO interface cost applications
• All GPI supports interrupt triggering capability • Platform expansion through USB2.0
• Dual RS232 UART • Platform expansion through PCI/Cardbus

• 2.4W Low-power design • Networked Attached Storage (NAS)

• Easily build NAS routers with included NAS software module

BCM4705 System Diagram

 OVERVIEW

PLL 25 MHz

PLL 48 MHz

MIPS32 I-Cache
EJTAG

DDR/SDRAM
USB2 Device Port USB2.0 Core (32 KB)

Interface
DDR/SDRAM
Device Interface
MMU D-Cache
USB2 Host Ports 2-port (32 KB)
USB2.0 Bus I/F
2 EHCI

PCI 32/33
PCI Interface

Up to four
PCI Master
Internal Bus

Dual RS232 10/100/1000

EBI/GPIO
UART MAC

Flash, GPIOs Two UART RGMII/GMII/MII

Enclosure Mgmt interfaces Interface
Thermal Mgmt

BCM4705 Block Diagram

The Broadcom BCM4705 processor is the highest performance chip in The BCM4705 integrates two USB2.0 EHCI Host ports and one USB2.0
the 802.11n/MIMO Intensi-fi™ processor family. Device port. The USB2.0 device port allows connectivity to PC or
consumer electronics (CE) devices equipped with USB host ports.
It integrates a powerful 300 MHz/500 DMIPS (*estimated) MIPS32 core
with 4-way set associative 32 KB instruction cache, a 32 KB 2-way set The BCM4705 supports a PCI 2.3 host interface and a USB host/device
associative data cache, and a 4 KB prefetch cache. An enhanced 10/100/ interface for adding application-specific peripherals including
1000 Gigabit Ethernet MAC controller with TCP Segmentation and BCM4321 2x2 MIMO, BCM4318 single-chip 802.11g, BCM4309
checksum Offload (TSO) hardware acceleration engine substantially 802.11 a/b/g, BCM4320 USB2.0 WLAN, BCM5397 Gigabit Ethernet
enhances system throughput. switch, and future generations of Broadcom wired, wireless, audio/video
codec, and multimedia processing devices.

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