Figure 1: 8x8 Meshed Adapters Through Passive Backplane
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PRS 5G
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CSIX
PL3
4G / OC-48
Network
Processor
PHY
PRS 5G
2
CSIX
PL3
4G / OC-48
Network
Processor
PHY
PRS 5G
3
CSIX
PL3
4G / OC-48
Network
Processor
PHY
PRS 5G
4
CSIX
PL3
4G / OC-48
Network
Processor
PHY
PRS 5G
1
CSIX
PL3
4G / OC-48
Network
Processor
PHY
PRS 5G
2
CSIX
PL3
4G / OC-48
Network
Processor
PHY
PRS 5G
3
CSIX
PL3
4G / OC-48
Network
Processor
PHY
PRS 20G
CSIX
PL3
10G / OC-192
Network
Processor
PHY
Figure 2: 4x4 Meshed Adapters Redundancy Through
Passive Backplane
Figure 3: Meshed Adapters Through Passive Backplane
with Uplink Aggregation
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PRS 5G and PRS 20G
Switch Fabric
PRS 20G Switch Fabric for
10 Gbps (Single-card) or 20 Gbps
(Two-cards) Smaller-Capacity
Systems
The PRS 20G (PRS C192X) switch
fabric device enables the implementation
of one-card or two-card systems
providing 10-20 Gbps of full-duplex
minimum aggregate user bandwidth.
A single device operates as a 10-Gbps
full-duplex switch fabric providing 4x4
switch ports at 2.5-Gbps/OC-48c speed,
with a standard CSIX-L1 or PL3 interface
to network processors such as the
AMCC nP3700 Integrated Network
Processor / Traffic Manager (see
Figure 4).
In a two-card system, the two PRS
20G devices can operate as an 8x8 port
switch fabric, with each port supporting
Product Brief
PB PRS 5G-20G / v0.5 / 05-24-2004
2.5-Gbps/OC-48c speeds, thus offering
an aggregate full-duplex throughput of
20 Gbps. As another two-card
configuration, one of the PRS 20G
devices can be configured with a single
10-Gbps/OC-192c port with a standard
CSIX interface to a network processor,
so as to provide the uplink aggregating
the traffic of the four 2.5-Gbps/OC-48c
ports of the other card (see
Figure 5).
CSIX or PL3
Interface
OC-48
4G / OC-48
Network
Processor
4G / OC-48
Network
Processor
4G / OC-48
Network
Processor
4G / OC-48
Network
Processor
PRS 20G
4x OC-12
4x 1GE
FibreChannel
Figure 4: PRS 20G as a 4x4 Switch
CSIX or PL3
Interface
OC-48
4G / OC-48
Network
Processor
4G / OC-48
Network
Processor
4G / OC-48
Network
Processor
4G / OC-48
Network
Processor
PRS 20G
8 Serial Links at
3.2 Gbps
PRS 20G
PRS 20G
CSIX
Interface
4x OC-12
4x 1GE
10G / OC-192
Network
Processor
10GE or OC-192
FibreChannel
Figure 5: PRS 20G in a 5x5 Switch with Uplink Aggregation
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Intelligent
Optical Networks
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Product Brief
PB PRS 5G-20G / v0.5 / 05-24-2004
PRS 5G and PRS 20G
Switch Fabric
separate multicast queues, preventing
head-of-line blocking
Up to four levels of traffic priority (CoS)
and four programmable ingress queue
thresholds (ingress CSIX / PL3 flow
control per destination port and
priority)
Packet scheduling: strict priority
scheduling, credit table (weighted
round-robin), exhaustive highest
priority first
Implements flow control bit map
mapping to ease adapter redundancy
schemes
End-to-end packet payload protection,
with optional cyclic redundancy check
insertion
Internal loop back support for both the
CSIX / PL3 interface and switch
interface
Hardware compatibility with PRS 80G
switch core device via SerDes
operating at 3.2 Gbps
Backward compatibility with
PRS 64Gu switch core device via
SerDes operating at 2.5 Gbps
(overspeed factor of 1.6)
Backward compatibility with
PRS Q-64G switch core device via
SerDes operating at 2.5 Gbps
(overspeed factor of 1.6 for PRS 20G /
PRS C192X, or 6.4 for PRS 5G /
PRS C48X)
PRS 5G (PRS C48X) and PRS 20G
(PRS C192X) Switch Fabric Device
Features
• 2.5-Gbps (PRS 5G) and 10-Gbps
(PRS 20G) full-duplex user bandwidth
switch devices with an overspeed of
two towards the backplane
• Embedded IBM 3.2-Gbps SerDes, with
8b/10b coding and XAUI-compliant
high-speed serial links
• PRS 5G (PRS C48X): CSIX-L1 or
PL3-based (POS-PHY Level 3 / OIF-
SPI3-01.0) 32-bit wide interface for
multi-GE / OC-48 network processors
• PRS 20G (PRS C192X): CSIX-L1
64-bit wide or 128-bit wide interface for
a 10-Gbps / OC-192 network
processor or 4x CSIX-L1 or PL3-based
(POS-PHY Level 3 / OIF-SPI3-01.0)
32-bit wide interfaces for multi-GE /
OC-48 network processors.
• PRS 20G (PRS C192X) operation in
subport mode or, in conjunction with
the PRS 80G switch core, in quad
PRS 5G (PRS C48X) mode, for more
integrated line card solutions
• Dual-switch attachment for redundant
switch plane operations (central switch
configurations)
• Highly-efficient multicast and
broadcast mechanism
• Ingress virtual output queuing (VOQ)
per destination port and priority, with
Enablement Tools for an
Expedited Time to Market
To facilitate the evaluation and
prototyping of complete solutions,
reference switch boards featuring the
AMCC PRS 5G and PRS 20G,
respectively, are available for installation
in evaluation platforms.
To help reduce development time and
cost, AMCC offers PRS 64Gu, PRS 80G
and PRS Q-64G switch evaluation
platforms, switch core reference
designs, and reference software to
operate switch boards.
To allow system vendors to evaluate
multi-vendor solutions, the PRS boards
and platforms are enabled for
attachment of other suppliers' NPU
platforms. Board design services and
board manufacturing capabilities
complement the AMCC PRS offering.
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Specifications
PRS 5G (PRS C48X)
Technology
Supply voltage
Typical power @100% traffic
Junction °C
Package
mm x mm (pitch)
0.13 µm
1.5 V, 2.5 V
5 Watts
0°C to 125°C
899-ball FC-PBGA
31x31 (1 mm)
PRS 20G (PRS C192X)
0.13 µm
1.5 V, 2.5 V
9.5 Watts
0°C to 125°C
937-ball CBGA
32.5x32.5 (1 mm)
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