The CS3316 is a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) NAS Router device that provides superior performance and functionality for the Small and Medium Size Enterprise (SME) and the home network storage markets. It has a 32-bit ARM9 RISC Processor with over 225MIPS performance. The device integrates an USB for printer sharing, an IDE Controllers, a 66 MHz 32-bit PCI interface, a 10/100 Ethernet MAC, a Real Time Clock for system management, an UART port for modem connection, and a LPC interface for a parallel printer or a Super IO chipset connection.
The PCI bus allows versatile system configurations. By connecting an IEEE 802.11a/b/g MAC and a Base Band processor to the Cortina CS3316, a system integrator can build a comprehensive and yet cost effective Wireless NAS VPN Gateway/Router.
Compared with the configuration of a PCI-IDE device connected to a processor through the PCI interface, the integrated IDE with dual back-plane bus architecture within the CS3316 offers a 4x performance advantage.
The embedded 10/100 MAC with the industry standard MII allows system integrators the flexibility of configuring a traditional NAS server system with one single channel 10/100 Ethernet PHY, or a NAS server plus router gateway capabilities with a multi-port Ethernet switch to deliver wire-speed routing and storage functions. The high speed routing and storage functions are made possible by the high performance 225 MIPS ARM9 embedded processor.
An included proprietary TCP/IP Hardware Acceleration Engine further improves overall network throughput by approximately 25% through calculating TCP/IP packet checksum in hardware.
The Security Acceleration Engine has a performance of over 450/150 Mbps running DES/3DES; 178/148/127 Mbps running 128/192/256bits AES encryption, which enables IPSec and VPN tunnel transactions to run at full wire-speed. This Security Acceleration Engine also performs hardware acceleration on SHA1, MD5, HMAC-SHA1, and HMAC-MD5 authentication.
- NAS
- VPN Router Gateway
- Wireless AP
CS3316 Features and Benefits Table | |
| Features | Benefits |
| The CS3316 includes a PCI master and slave controller, an IDE controller, an Ethernet MAC, an USB Host Controller and an ARM9 Processor | Ideal single chip solution for cost effective and high performance Wireless NAS Router systems |
| 32-bit 225+ MIPS ARM9 RISC Processor with an embedded Memory Management Unit (MMU) and 4K/8K data/instruction caches | Configurable external memory interfaces provide system integrators maximum flexibility to achieve best price performance ratio |
| Dual internal back-plane buses with aggregate peak performance of greater than 8 Gbps for wire-speed operation | Integrated IDE interface provides 4x the performance compared to an external PCI-IDE configuration |
| Supports 16 MB of serial or parallel external flash memory | PCI bus interface to support external peripheral components such as IEEE 802.11a/g modules and MPEG codec |
| Supports 128 MB of external DDR/SDR SDRAM | Standard Ethernet MAC provides flexible connection to single channel Ethernet PHY or multiple channel Ethernet switch |
| IDE interfaces support up to two Ultra ATA 133 Hard Drives (Master/Slave) | Printer Server software with the selectable USB port and the LPC interfaces allows quick and inexpensive addition of a network printer |
| 32-bit PCI 2.2 bus interface at 66 MHz | Comprehensive peripheral device interfaces such as UART and GPIO allow maximum flexibility in LCD, LED, and other slave device programming |
| IEEE 802.3 compliant Ethernet MAC with 10/100 MII | Embedded Real Time Clock enables easy and precise system management |
| USB 1.1 Host interface | The built-in hardware security accelerator engine enables significant performance improvement in VPN tunneling, IPSec and secure file transfers by processing packet encryption, decryption, hashing and authentication functions in hardware |
| LPC Interface connects to Super IO chipsets | True hardware random number generator enables high fidelity IPSec and VPN communication |
| Timer, GPIO, UART, Watch Dog Timer | TCP/UDP/IP processing assisted by a proprietary hardware acceleration engine significantly improves overall network throughput |
| Embedded Real Time Clock | Internal multi-PLL circuits simplify designs and requires a simple crystal (25 MHz) which reduces overall system cost |
| Hardware Security Acceleration Engine performs DES, 3DES and AES encryption with CBC or ECB mode operations; authentication with SHA1, MD5, HMAC-SHA1 and HMAC-MD5 hashing algorithm | |
| Hardware 32-bit true random number generator | |
| Proprietary TCP/IP Hardware Acceleration Engine | |
| Integrated OSC/PLL circuits | |
| Complete NAS, Print Server software solutions based on Linux OS, provided by Storm | |
| 0.18um standard CMOS with approximately 1W dissipation | |
| Low cost and small footprint 256-pin FBGA | |
| PCN400735 | Storm Semiconductor, Inc. SL3316, SL3512 & SL3516 Product Mark and Part Number Change, PCN400735, FYI | 2008-Sep-03 |
| DCL400717 | Doing Business with Cortina Systems: Instructions | 2008-Aug-19 |