FlyRouter™

General Description

The RTL8650B/RTL8651B is a highly integrated multi-layer switching gateway controller designed to provide the best performance at a competitive price for broadband and wireless gateway applications.

The RTL8650B/RTL8651B integrates the following key components and technologies:

• 6-port layer 2/3/4 switch MAC, 5 Fast Ethernet transceivers, and an MII interface
• Hardware Access Control List (ACL) for firewall applications
• A 32-bit RISC CPU with a 4K I-Cache, a 4K D-Cache, an 8K I-MEM, and a 4K D-MEM
• A powerful protocol engine to support auto L3/L4 checksum check and re-generation, auto VLAN tagging, and auto PPPoE encapsulation
• Rich set of peripherals for value-added services: two UART ports, a USB 1.1 host controller, a PCM interface, and 22 GPIOs

The RTL8650B/RTL8651B is embedded with a PCI host interface to access high-speed devices, providing enhanced application capabilities.

With the built-in layer 2/3/4 switching architecture, the RTL8650B/RTL8651B provides wire-speed performance for not only layer 2 switching, but also IP and NAT switching. This unique architecture frees the embedded CPU from software routing cycles so that the CPU horsepower can be fully utilized to provide the most efficient services.

Features

• System Processor
  • LX5280 32-bit RISC CPU, clock rates up to 200MHz
  • Embedded 4K I-Cache, 4K D-Cache, 8K I-MEM, 4K D-MEM
• Integrated Switch
  • 6-port integrated MAC switch with 5-port physical layer and transceiver for 10Base-T and 100Base-TX
  • Automatic MDI/MDX crossover on all ports
  • Supports sixth Port 5, MAC interface with 3 configurations to connect to external MAC or PHY
    • PHY mode MII (also known as Reverse MII) for router application
    • PHY mode SNI (also known as GPSI or 7 wires) for router application
    • MAC mode MII for HomePNA or other PHY application
• L2 Capabilities
  • 1024-entry 4-way hash look-up table and 16-entry CAM
  • Supports source and destination MAC address filtering
  • Supports 8 active VLANs with 4096 VID number spaces to distinguish IP interfaces
  • Supports port-based and packet-tagged VLANs
  • Supports VLAN-based spanning tree forwarding
  • Non-blocking wire-speed reception and transmission and non-head-of-line-blocking forwarding
  • Complies with IEEE 802.3, 802.3u, 802.1D, and 802.1Q
  • Flexible full-duplex 802.3x flow control and optional half-duplex backpressure flow control
• L3 Capabilities
  • Supports 8-entry IPv4 hardware routing table and longest-prefix-matching table lookup
  • Supports hardware ARP table for host IP addresses
• L4 Capabilities
  • Supports hardware-switched Network Address Port Translation (NAPT) for TCP, UDP, and ICMP protocols
  • Supports hardware-switched 1-1 Network Address Translation (NAT) for IP protocol
  • Supports hardware-switched server ports (virtual servers)
  • Supports Application Level Gateway (ALG) tables for packets that should be further processed by software
• QoS Support
  • Supports 2-level QoS based on port, VLAN tag, TCP/IP TOS/DS, L2/L3 table entry, and firewall rule
  • Supports policy-based QoS
• PPPoE Support
  • Supports configurable automatic PPPoE encapsulation and decapsulation
  • Up to 8 PPPoE sessions
• Firewall Capabilities
  • Supports 128 hardware Access Control List (ACL) rules for packet filtering
  • Supports both ingress and egress filtering
  • Supports field filtering for Ethernet, PPPoE, IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, and IGMP protocols
  • Supports Stateful Packet inspection (SPI) firewall
  • Supports whole packet inspection function to scan contents of incoming packets
  • Supports policy-based routing function
  • Supports policy-based QoS function
  • Supports policy-based mirroring function
• Peripherals
  • USB v1.1 host controller
  • 33MHz PCI v2.2 host interface for glueless connection of up to two devices
  • Two 16C550-compatible UARTs
  • 22 GPIOs
• System Design
  • 208-pin PQFP package for RTL8650B
  • 292-pin TFBGA package for RTL8651B
  • 3.3V power supply

Applications

• Broadband IP-sharing gateways
• Wireless gateways
• L3 switches
• High-performance FTTx routers
• Firewall and VPN appliances
• Residential gateways