32 KB -I/32 KB D L1 caches, and 512 KB L2/SRAM with parity protection
32/64-bit DDR II SDRAM Controller, for up to DDR800 operation
Three Gen 2 PCI Express interfaces, one with eight lanes configurable as x8, x4,x1 and two with four lanes configurable as two x4, or x1, or they can be combined as a second 8-lane PCI-E; compliant with PCI Express base specification 2.0; 5.0 Gb/s full duplex per lane; all ports configurable as root or end point
RAID 5 and RAID 6 acceleration hardware for P & Q parity generation and check functions
Intelligent Messaging Unit (I2O specification)
Three-channel high bandwidth DMA engine
External bus control (EBC) Interface (up to 100 MHz) with 29-bit address bus, 32-bit data bus supporting up to four ROM, RAM, EPROM, flash memory, or peripheral devices.
Storage Security Engine (Optional)
Galois counter mode and XTS-AES, LRW-AES. SHA-1 and SHA-2 (SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512) hashing
Hash Message Authentication (HMAC).
Network Turbo Security Engine with IPSec/SSL hardware acceleration (Optional)
True random number generator and a public key accelerator.
NAND Flash controller, which supports one to four banks of NAND Flash memory devices; direct interfacing to discrete NAND Flash devices (up to four devices) and Smart-Media Card socket (22-pins); 4 MB to 256 MB device sizes supported; boot-from-NAND supported
4-channel DMA -available for internal use and 2 channels for external use; scatter/gather capability
(4) Ethernet 10/100/1000-Mbit/s full duplex MACs, with Quality of Service (QoS) support
IPv4 and IPv6 Internet protocols Jumbo Frames
Four ports RGMII, RTBI, or optional two ports GMII interfaces
CRC32 error detection and checking
TCP/IP and iSCSI Acceleration Hardware support
DMA capability by means of memory access layer (MAL)
Two serial ports (16750-compliant UARTs) with 64-byte FIFOs