BCM6348

Chip description

BCM6348 is enchanced version of Broadcom BCM6345 and a member of the Broadcom ADSL series. BCM6348 CPU is MIPS32 running at up tu 256MHz(typicaly 250), contains ADSL/ADSL2/ADSL2+ AFE, USB 2.0 fullspeed (12Mbps) device, two-port USB 2.0 fullspeed (12Mbps) host (i.e, it can be master and accept for example USB flash disk), some glue to interface BCM4318 WiFi-G transiever and full PCI bus.

Used in routers

The BCM6348 is used in the following routers:

• Freebox V4/V5
• Inventel DV-4210 (aka Wanadoo Livebox)
• Inventel D5213, aka AOLBox (French only?)
• Netgear DG834GT
• Thomson SpeedTouch 536i v5
• Thomson 7G
• BT home hub
• Echolife HG520
• USRxx9107
• USRxx9108
• BT Voyager 220v
• Linksys WAG54GS
• ASUS WL-600g
• ASUS AM200g
• ASUS WL-AM604g
• Targa WR500 (exactly same device as Speedport below but black with Targa-Label)
• Speedport (W)500V (German Telecom)
• Belkin 7633
• Zhone 621x
• Netcomm NB6Plus4W

Linux Support

These devices run linux and the GPL requires them to provide the relevant sources. Some vendors DO comply:

• USRobotics GPL Code Central
• German Telecom Download
• BT Home hub downloads

Unfortunately, ATM, USB and Ethernet drives are not available in source code and included as precompiled object files in archives mentioned above.