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--Eraser 21:10, 15 November 2007 (CET)
Are you sure about Gemini SL3516 Network Processor?

http://www.faraday-tech.com/html/products/IP/processor/fa5_series.html

  • Processor  : FA526id(wb) rev 1 (v4l)
  • BogoMIPS  : 230.19
  • Features  : swp half
  • CPU implementer : 0x66
  • CPU architecture: 4
  • CPU variant  : 0x0
  • CPU part  : 0x526
  • CPU revision  : 1
  • Cache type  : write-back
  • Cache clean  : cp15 c7 ops
  • Cache lockdown  : format B
  • Cache format  : Harvard
  • I size  : 16384
  • I assoc  : 2
  • I line length  : 16
  • I sets  : 512
  • D size  : 8192
  • D assoc  : 2
  • D line length  : 16
  • D sets  : 256
  • Hardware  : GeminiA
  • Revision  : 0000
  • Serial  : 0000000000000000

DVB-Teranner, Nov-15-2007

Faraday FA526

The FA526 is only a RISC without any chipset components.

This CPU has integrated in chips like the A320.

SoC Development Chip (A320) The A320 is a SoC development chip in Faraday's SoCreative! SoC development platform. With this silicon-verified chip, developers can concentrate on their own IP design and emulate the entire system at full speed. The A320 successfully integrates Faraday's FA526, a 32-bit Faraday ARM architecture RISC CPU, with memory controllers for SDRAM, SRAM, ROM and flash, memory card controllers for CF and SD/MMC cards, an Ethernet MAC, a USB2.0 device controller, SSP, I2C, AC97, UART, IrDA, LCD controller and more. The A320's efficient AHB extension bus allows customers to verify IPs from multiple sources.

Gemini™ SL3516 Network Processor

I have checked my information:

The SL3516 is the used processor for the NAS-4220!

Raidsonic has confirmed this information!


--Eraser 21:10, 15 November 2007 (CET)
I can't still understand why the FA526 entry appears in cpuinfo. Does it mean FA526 is a part of SL3516?



--DVB-Terraner 09:33, 29 November 2007 (CET)

@Eraser: I mean you are right. My further searches resulted that the FA526 is the AMR9 CPU which is working in the SL3516:


Faraday Technology Corporation has announced its ASIC service client StorLink Semiconductors, Inc. has successfully produced its first generation chip Centroid targeting the home storage router/gateway market using Faraday's 0.18µm ARM-based FA526 CPU ASIC platform technology.

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