Brecis SOC

BRECIS Communications was a fabless semiconductor company offering a MSP (Multi-Service Processor) family of SoC intended for security appliances, broadband routers, Multi-service Access Devices and VoIP Gateways.

Products

• MSP2000 - now Cavium SOC NITROX SoHo CN200
• MSP2004 - now PMC-Sierra MSP2004
• MSP2005 - now PMC-Sierra
• MSP2006 - now PMC-Sierra MSP2006
• MSP2007 - now PMC-Sierra
• MSP2010 - now Cavium SOC NITROX SoHo CN201
• MSP2015 - now PMC-Sierra
• MSP2020 - now PMC-Sierra
• MSP2100 - now Cavium SOC NITROX SoHo CN210
• MSP3000
• MSP4000 - now PMC-Sierra
• MSP5000 - now PMC-Sierra

Linux support

Brecis MSP200x uses 4Km MMU-less architecture. This SoCs are only known chips which run uClinux/MIPS.

Linux version 2.4.20-br26b4 (jkglee@NPCD94) (gcc version 3.2 20030604 (BRECIS uClinux)) #275 Wed Aug 3 21:14:32 CST 2005
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 00001000 @ 00000000 (reserved)
memory: 000ff000 @ 00001000 (usable)
memory: 00230000 @ 00100000 (reserved)
memory: 01cd0000 @ 00330000 (usable)
...

Products are based on the Brecis SoC

• Allnet ALL6200 - MSP2006. Hacking, GPL Src
• D-Link DWL-2000AP+ H/W Ver:A2 (Global Sun Technology GL2454AP ver:T3.0) - Brecis MSP2006; TI 1130 WiFi Mini-PCI card
• Gigabyte GN-B49G - MSP2006. Hacking, GPL Src
• Hawking HNAS1 Net-Stor Network Storage Center
• LevelOne FBR-1411TX - MSP2100. GPL Src
• Netgear FWG114PGR - MSP2007
• Netgear FWG114PIS - MSP2007
• OvisLink WMU-9000VPN - Brecis MSP2006, 8MB Flash, 32MB SDRAM, WiFi Intersil 3880IK,USB,Linux, Forum
• OvisLink WL-1184AR - Brecis MSP2006
• Planet WAP-4000 (Global Sun Technology GL2454AP)
• USR5450 (Global Sun Technology GL2454AP)

External links

• Cavium NITROX SoHo
• PMC-Sierra VoIP Network Processor Chip Family
• Communications processor company adds VoIP CPE SoCs article @Linuxdevices
• Wireless VoIP "router-on-a-chip" runs Linux article @Linuxdevices