Updates to the Fourth Edition of

"A Guide to Communications Processors"

formerly "A Guide to SOHO Gateway Processors"

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"A Guide to Communications Processors" includes the following new products:

  • Cavium low-cost Octeon Plus (CN50xx) processors target SOHO and SMB.
  • Mindspeed Comcerto 100 is the first Comcerto for office-in-a-box designs.
  • PMC-Sierra MSP7140 and MSP7150 target PON and VDSL2 gateways.
  • Freescale MPC8315 targets SOHO gateways and media servers.
  • Freescale MPC8379 targets SMB gateways and NAS servers.
  • Ikanos Vx170 and Vx180 target PON and VDSL2 gateways.
  • LSI APP2200 takes the APP family into the SMB market.
  • Intel Tolapai is the first x86-based communications processor.

The report also contains the following new coverage added since the previous edition:

  • Added coverage of Cavium CN30xx and CN50xx processors.
  • Added coverage of all Freescale PowerQuicc processors.
  • Expanded coverage of Ubicom IP51xx processors.


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