Processor and Chipset
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Gemini™ SL3516 Network Processor
Copyright© 2007. Storm Semiconductor, Inc. All right reserved.
Features
Single 32-bit 400MIPS ARM9 RISC processor with separate embedded MMU and 8K/16K data/instruction cache
Dual AHB with aggregate peak performance of greater than 10.6Gbps for wire-speed operation
Supports unlimited serial NAND flash
Storm proprietary buffer pre-fetch DDR controller
Supports 256MByte 16-bit 333MHz (PC2700) of external DDR SDRAM
Supports single Ultra-133 IDE or dual SATA
Hardware XOR RAID engine to support RAID5
Dual USB2.0 selectable host or slave
Dual 802.3 compliant Ethernet MACs with 10/100 MII and 10/100/1000 RGMII
Layer2/3/4 hardware switching, routing and NAT with 4 transmit queues per port for QoS support
Layer2-7 packet classification into 16 receive queues
Transmit acceleration by TCP segmentation, IP fragmentation and TCP/IP/UDP checksum calculation
Receive acceleration by TCP connection table lookup, assembly of multiple packets belonging to the same TCP connection and TC/IP/UDP checksum verification
Hardware Security Acceleration Engine performs DES, 3DES, AES, CCMP and RC4 encryption/decryption with CBC or ECB mode operation; authentication with SHA1, MD5, HMAC-SHA1 and HMAC-MD5 hashing algorithm
Hardware 32-bit true random number generator
32-bit PCI 2.2 bus interface up to 66MHz with four master device support
Intelligent and programmable power management
Timer, GPIO, UART, Watch Dog Timer
Embedded Real Time Clock for true server applications
Integrated OSC/PLL circuits require single 60MHz crystal
0.13µm standard CMOS with approximately 1.5W dissipation
Low cost and small foot print 324-pin FBGA
Components
The used ARM9 RISC processor ist the FA526 from Faraday
Miscellaneous
Hardware of the Raidsonic IB-NAS4220-B is identical to Macpower Taurus LAN and i-Stor IS607 - use of it's software isn't actually recommended. IT MAY HARM YOUR NAS-4220!
