ADI Roadrunner enables cost-effective Gigabit Ethernet

New Reference Platform for Intel IXP2350

Roadrunner from ADI Engineering is a new single board reference design based on Intel's IXP2350 "Westport" Network Processor, that enables cost effective Gigabit Ethernet applications where an AdvancedTCA platform is not required.

The design includes an Intel IXP2350 XScale network processor running at 900MHz, up to 2GB microengine DDR RAM with ECC, 1GB control plane DDR RAM with ECC, 16MB microengine QDR SRAM, 64MB of Intel StrataFlash, two on-board Gigabit Ethernet ports, one 10/100 fast Ethernet port, two USB 2.0 host ports and an ATA133 hard disk controller. Expandability is provided by two miniPCI slots for Wi-Fi and WiMAX radios, one PCI 64-bit 66MHz card slot for security coprocessors and other peripherals, one CompactFlash socket to support the Application-in-a-Flash program, and one Intel IXA Media Interface Mezzanine (MIM) slot to accommodate off-the-shelf media interface cards from Intel including OC3, OC12, T1/E1, Quad Gigabit Ethernet, and others. Roadrunner fits in a standard 1U chassis.

The new platform, which will ship to end-users next month, comes with a Linux BSP, and a range of demos from third party software providers, including Parallogic and Teja Technologies.

Roadrunner can be ordered from our online shop.