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Cavium CN3830-400 EXP
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General Info
DesignerCavium
ManufacturerTSMC
Model NumberCN3830-400 EXP
Part NumberCN3830-400BG1521-EXP
MarketNetworking
IntroductionAugust 22, 2005 (announced)
August 22, 2005 (launched)
Release Price$350
General Specs
FamilyOCTEON
SeriesCN3800
Frequency400 MHz
Microarchitecture
ISAMIPS64 (MIPS)
MicroarchitecturecnMIPS
Core NamecnMIPS
Process130 nm
TechnologyCMOS
Word Size64 bit
Cores4
Threads4
Max Memory16 GiB
Multiprocessing
Max SMP1-Way (Uniprocessor)
Packaging
PackageFCBGA-1521 (BGA)
Ball Count1521
InterconnectBGA-1521

The CN3830-400 EXP is a 64-bit quad-core MIPS communication microprocessor designed by Cavium and introduced in 2005. This processor, which incorporates four cnMIPS cores, operates at 400 MHz. This processor includes a number of hardware networking accelerators including units for high-performance packet I/O processing, QoS, TCP, and RegEx. This MPU supports up to 16 GiB of DDR2-800 ECC memory.

Cache[edit]

Main article: cnMIPS § Cache

[Edit/Modify Cache Info]

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Cache Organization
Cache is a hardware component containing a relatively small and extremely fast memory designed to speed up the performance of a CPU by preparing ahead of time the data it needs to read from a relatively slower medium such as main memory.

The organization and amount of cache can have a large impact on the performance, power consumption, die size, and consequently cost of the IC.

Cache is specified by its size, number of sets, associativity, block size, sub-block size, and fetch and write-back policies.

Note: All units are in kibibytes and mebibytes.
L1$160 KiB
163,840 B
0.156 MiB
L1I$128 KiB
131,072 B
0.125 MiB
4x32 KiB64-way set associative 
L1D$32 KiB
32,768 B
0.0313 MiB
4x8 KiB64-way set associativeWrite-through

L2$1 MiB
1,024 KiB
1,048,576 B
9.765625e-4 GiB
  1x1 MiB8-way set associative 

Memory controller[edit]

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Integrated Memory Controller
Max TypeDDR2-800
Supports ECCYes
Max Mem16 GiB
Controllers1
Channels1
Width128 bit
Max Bandwidth11.92 GiB/s
12,206.08 MiB/s
12.799 GB/s
12,799.003 MB/s
0.0116 TiB/s
0.0128 TB/s
Bandwidth
Single 11.92 GiB/s

Expansions[edit]

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Expansion Options
PCI-X
Width64 bit
Clock133.33 MHz
Rate1,017.25 MiB/s
Featureshost or slave
UART
Ports2

GP I/OYes


Networking[edit]

[Edit/Modify Network Info]

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Networking
MII
RGMIIYes (Ports: 8)
SPI
SPI-4.2Yes (Ports: 2)

Hardware Accelerators[edit]

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Hardware Accelerators
RegEx
RegExYes
Features16 Engines
Networking
TCPYes
QoSYes
Compression
CompressionYes
DecompressionYes

Block diagram[edit]

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Datasheet[edit]

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CN3830-400 EXP - Cavium#package +
base frequency400 MHz (0.4 GHz, 400,000 kHz) +
core count4 +
core namecnMIPS +
designerCavium +
familyOCTEON +
first announcedAugust 22, 2005 +
first launchedAugust 22, 2005 +
full page namecavium/octeon/cn3830-400bg1521-exp +
has ecc memory supporttrue +
has hardware accelerators for data compressiontrue +
has hardware accelerators for data decompressiontrue +
has hardware accelerators for network quality of service processingtrue +
has hardware accelerators for regular expressiontrue +
has hardware accelerators for tcp packet processingtrue +
instance ofmicroprocessor +
isaMIPS64 +
isa familyMIPS +
l1$ size160 KiB (163,840 B, 0.156 MiB) +
l1d$ description64-way set associative +
l1d$ size32 KiB (32,768 B, 0.0313 MiB) +
l1i$ description64-way set associative +
l1i$ size128 KiB (131,072 B, 0.125 MiB) +
l2$ description8-way set associative +
l2$ size1 MiB (1,024 KiB, 1,048,576 B, 9.765625e-4 GiB) +
ldateAugust 22, 2005 +
main imageFile:octeon cn38xx.png +
manufacturerTSMC +
market segmentNetworking +
max cpu count1 +
max memory16,384 MiB (16,777,216 KiB, 17,179,869,184 B, 16 GiB, 0.0156 TiB) +
max memory bandwidth11.92 GiB/s (12,206.08 MiB/s, 12.799 GB/s, 12,799.003 MB/s, 0.0116 TiB/s, 0.0128 TB/s) +
max memory channels1 +
microarchitecturecnMIPS +
model numberCN3830-400 EXP +
nameCavium CN3830-400 EXP +
packageFCBGA-1521 +
part numberCN3830-400BG1521-EXP +
process130 nm (0.13 μm, 1.3e-4 mm) +
release price$ 350.00 (€ 315.00, £ 283.50, ¥ 36,165.50) +
seriesCN3800 +
smp max ways1 +
supported memory typeDDR2-800 +
technologyCMOS +
thread count4 +
word size64 bit (8 octets, 16 nibbles) +