BL2548 Embedded Processor

Part of the Helios processor family, BL2548 is a low power and cost effective SoC, targeting intelligent CPE service application processing in high performance access networks, from 100 Mbps to 2 Gbps. BL2548 incorporates the industry’s most advanced interfaces including Gigabit Ethernet, VoIP DSP and PCI, along with unrivaled QoS, security and hardware acceleration. Integrated with the innovative dual core Runner™ network processor, BL2548 enables unmatched service application flexibility with benchmark performance. The instruction set has been designed from the ground up and is optimized to accelerate service and networking over a wide range of protocols and traffic management models, while maintaining up to 2 Gbps throughput. 

With industry-standard operating systems and software toolchains, BL2548 also integrates a MIPS32 for demanding application processing. An on-board DSP enables toll quality voice of simple, complex, and wideband CODECs, with a proven and comprehensive telephony feature set.

Decoupling the data, control, and voice planes, the SoC architecture maximizes throughput performance while maintaining all host and peripheral application tasks. The architecture enables new data path functionality to be added to the Runner™ network processor, guaranteeing versatility, scalability and a long product life cycle.