The Ubicom IP8K Router Reference Design is an industry standard, Linux-based, networking solution that is ideal for a broad range of high-performance, low-cost applications for consumer, service-provider, and small-business network-infrastructure devices.
The router reference design includes the Ubicom’s IP8K Router Evaluation Board, OpenWRT-based Router SDK, and complete documentation that enables OEMs and ODMs to easily customize high quality products and bring them to market quickly.
Router Evaluation Board Features:
- High performance
- 2 Gbps NAT routing on OpenWrt
- Security engine
- 4 × Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports
- 2 × Gigabit Ethernet WAN port
- 2 × PCIe 2.0 connectors
- 2 × USB 3.0 and 2 × USB 2.0 ports
- UART serial console; debug port
- Expansion connectors: LCD display, SLIC controller
- Advanced power management
OpenWRT Router SDK Features:
- Operating system
- Linux Kernel 2.6.36 with SMP enabled
- Bootloader
- U-Boot
- Micro-boot layer
- Device drivers (already ported and functional)
- Ethernet switches
- Broadcom BCM5395 and Atheros AR8327
- Wi-Fi
- Atheros AR9280/AR9283/AR9380
- IP8K on-chip peripherals
- 2 × PCIe 2.0
- 2 × USB 3.0
- 2 × USB 2.0
- 2 × RGMII
- 2 × SDIO
- 2 × LCD Controllers
- SPI
- PCM/SLIC
- Ethernet switches
- Software Tools
- Standard GNU toolchain for Ubicom32™ ISA
- GCC 4.4.0 compiler
- GDB application debugging
- Ubicom Profiler tool
