ARMADA® 38x Family
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High-Performance Dual Core CPU System on Chip
ARMADA 38x Family
Technical Product
High-Performance Brief
Dual Core CPU System on Chip
Technical Product Brief
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
The Marvell® ARMADA® 38x Family is a complete • Up to 1 MB shared and unified 16-way, set associative L2
system-on-chip (SoC) solution based on the ARM V7 cache
high-performance dual core CPU technology, ideally suited for • High-bandwidth, low-latency Coherency Fabric
innovative home and enterprise products. The ARMADA® 38x • High-speed, low-latency, tightly coupled DDR3/3L/ DDR4
Family brings a new level of performance, integration, and DRAM memory controller with advanced transaction
efficiency, raising the performance-to-power and re-ordering and prefetch engine
performance-to-cost bar. Designed for high-volume products, • 6 shared high-speed SERDES interfaces
such as Network Attached Storage (NAS),Wi-Fi Access Point • Advanced I/O peripherals including PCI Express (PCIe)
(WAP), Surveillance Video Recorders (DVR / NVR / Hybrid) and Gen 2.0, USB 3.0, SATA 3.0, and Gigabit Ethernet ports
high-performance networking products such as control planes • Audio, TDM, SDIO 3.0, and flash interfaces
and line cards. • Acceleration engines for storage, networking, and security
(for 88F6810/88F6820/88F6828 devices only)
The ARMADA® 38x Family offers two Encryption acceleration • Advanced power management
options: • RTC and Thermal sensor
• The 88F6810, 88F6820, and 88F6828 devices provide full • FCBGA 17 x 17 mm, 0.8 mm ball pitch, green-compliant
encryption and security capabilities package
• The 88F6825 device without encryption support • 28 nm low power process
COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
KEY FEATURES The ARMADA® 38x Family is the 5th generation of Marvell
• Dual core ARM V7 CPU with NEON SIMD and Floating Point ARM-based SoC products, offering 3 software and pin-compatible
Unit (FPU) device variants. Marvell offers complete development platforms
• Operating speed of up to 1.6 GHZ per core for ARMADA® 38x Family series SoCs, enabling customers to
• Symmetrical/Asymmetric Multiprocessing (SMP/AMP) start system development without waiting for their own
operational modes hardware. Complete reference design platforms include software
• 32KB-Instruction / Data (4-way), set-associative L1 cache drivers and board support packages to help accelerate customer
per core product development cycles.
BLOCK DIAGRAM
DMA with RAID 5/6
Acceleration Engines ARM V7 CPU ARM V7 CPU DDR3/DDR3L/DDR4/
Up to 1600 MHz 1 MB Up to 1600 MHz 16/32-bit DRAM
Shared L2 Controller with ECC
Security Acceleration Cache
L1 L1 L1 L1
Engines * I- Cache D-Cache
I- Cache D-Cache
3 x GbE ports Coherency Fabric Integrated
SGMII/QSGMII/ BootROM
6 x High-Speed SERDES Lanes
RGMII/MII
2/4 x SATA 3.0 Secured Boot *
MBUS Crossbar Switch
PCIe 2.0:
(one x4 + two x1) Thermal Sensor
OR (four x1)
Flash I/F:
2-Channel Audio Unit
2 x USB3.0 Device Bus, Advanced Power
TDM for VoIP I2S/S/PDIF
(Host/Device) NAND, SPI Management
1 x USB2.0
SDIO3.0 UART, I2C,
(Host/Device)
Host I/F GPIO, PWM, RTC
LED
3 x USB2.0 PHY
* Not relevant for 88F6825
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ARMADA® 38x Family
Technical Product Brief
DETAILED FEATURES
ARMADA® 38x Family Series
FEATURES 88F6825 88F6828 88F6820 88F6810
CPU Dual Core Dual Core Dual Core Single Core
L2 Cache 1 MB
DDR3/DDR3L/DDR4 16/32-bits + ECC
PCIe 2.0 1 Port x4 + 2 Ports x1 or 1 Port x4 + 2 Ports x1 or 1 Port x4 + 2 Ports x1 or 3 ports x1
4 Ports x1 4 Ports x1 4 Ports x1
Gigabit Ethernet Ports 3 GbE Ports 3 GbE Ports 3 GbE Ports 2 GbE Ports
SERDES Lanes 6 Lanes 6 Lanes 6 Lanes 5 Lanes
PCIe/SGMII/QSGMII/SATA/ PCIe/SGMII/QSGMII/SATA/ PCIe/SGMII/QSGMII/SATA/ PCIe/SGMII/QSGMII/SATA/
sETM sETM sETM sETM
Encryption No Yes Yes Yes
Local Bus 16-bit
USB 2 x USB3 (Host/Device)
1 x USB2 (Host/Device)
SATA 4 x SATA3 4 x SATA3 2 x SATA3 2 x SATA3
Power 4W 4W 4W 3W
(approximately)
Package FCBGA 17x17, 0.8mm pitch
APPLICATION EXAMPLES
Marvell® ARMADA 388
4-Bay Network Attached Storage (NAS) GbE
DDR3/
Dual ARM V7 CPU 32b DRAM
Paired with Marvell’s industry-leading storage GbE
Up to 1.6 GHz
3L/4
DRAM
GbE PHY (x2)
controllers and networking solutions, the ARMADA® 38x 32 kB L1 32 kB L1
PCIe 2.0 x1
Family delivers the right combination of performance D-cache I-cache Flash Interface
and storage capacity, along with an energy-efficient 1-MB L2 Cache
USB 3.0 Port
design to support small form factors and quiet, low-cost SATA3
Coherency Fabric
operation SATA3
USB 2.0 Port
Secured Boot and Security Acceleration
SATA3
OTP Engines
SATA3 PWM
RAID5/6 Acceleration Advanced Power
Engines Management
LEDs I2C, SPI, UART
Wireless Access Point (WAP)
Paired with Marvell’s industry-leading wireless and Marvell® ARMADA 38x
wired networking solutions, the ARMADA® 38x Family is
DDR3/
Connectivity GbE 32b DRAM 3L/4
Dual ARM V7 CPU
DRAM
perfectly suited for dual-band 802.11 SMB/Enterprise GbE Up to 1.6 GHz
GbE PHY (x2)
class Access Point applications delivering the right Management 32 kB L1 32 kB L1
D-cache I-cache Flash Interface
balance between performance, power and price. 802.11 n/ac
PCIe 2.0 x 1 Extension Slot:
1-MB L2 Cache USB 3.0 Port/
Debug, 3rd
PCIe (x1) Port
Radio, DSP
Coherency Fabric
802.11 n/ac
PCIe 2.0 x 1
Security Acceleration
Secured Boot and OTP USB 2.0 Port
Engines
Extension Slot: PCIe 2.0 x 1
Debug, 3rd Radio, DSP Network Acceleration Advanced Power
Engines Management I2C, SPI, UART
LEDs
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