Cortex-A9 SoC targets Linux NAS devices and 802.11ac routers
June 4, 2013Broadcom announced a system-on-chip designed for network attached storage (NAS) devices and 802.11ac routers, supported by a Linux development kit. The StrataGX BCM5862x Series combines a single- or dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor with a Cortex-R5 based “FlexSPARX” ARM core designed to accelerate storage performance, and features a cryptographic accelerator and dual 6Gbps SATA interfaces.
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