Industry’s First Wave 2 802.11ac Wi-Fi System-on-Chip for Routers, Gateways and Access Points

IPQ40x8/IPQ40x9

Quad-core A7 32KB instruction cachewith FPU & NEON 32KB data cache per core 256KB L2 cache (shared) Dynamic Frequency Scaling

Flash and memory SPI (x1b), ONFI (x8b), SD/MMC(x1/8b)flash X8/16 DDR3L memory up to 1333 MHz data rate

Wi-Fi subsystem 2x2/2GHz (or 5 GHz) 11ac + 2x2/5GHz 11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi on-chip Dedicated CPU and subsystem per Wi-Fi band forWi-Fioffloadingandfeaturegrowth

Network Subsystem Integrated L2/3 switch/router and ACL Hardware NAT engine Trafficsteering Seamless integration with Linux network stack

Security Crypto engine: Secure boot, Trust Zone: PRNG

High Speed I/O 1x PCIe, 1x PSGMII/SGMII, 1x USB 3.0

Other peripherals USB 2.0, TDM/PCM, I2S, SPDIF, I2C, SPI, UART, WCI1/2, 1xRGMII, 2xRMII

Fully Integrated System-on-ChipSingle chip 2x2+2x2 Dual Band, Dual Concurrent SoC with Wave 2 11acThe IPQ40x8/x9 represents another leap forward utilizing 11ac to prepare home networks for the next generation of connected services, apps, systems and things. This highly integrated product is the latest addition to the Qualcomm® Atheros Smart Gateway Platform, a product of Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. that enablesOEM’stotakeWave211acbenefitstomainstream markets. Optimized features, size, cost andpowerefficiencymakethisthemostversatilesolution yet.

Highly configurableSupportsmultipleconfigurationsoftwo2.4GHzand/or 5GHz Wi-Fi radios or even tri-band (with 60GHz) with a 3rd radio on PCIe. Additional support for a rich set of interfaces including USB 3.0, LCD, SD/eMIMC, multi-channel audio, LTE and Ethernet. Small form-factorIntegrateddesignenablessignificantlyreducedsize footprint (as small as 2.5 x 2.5 inch) to enable smaller DBDC 11ac Wi-Fi gateways, access points and wireless repeaters.

Cost-effective performanceBrings advanced capabilities (including 802.11ac Wave 2 MU-MIMO) to main-stream with this highly integrated SoC. Product features include quad-core A7 processor + DBDC 2-stream 11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi + 5 port Gigabit Ethernet Switch.

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Range Extender

Smart HomeGateway

EnterpriseAPs

ResidentialCPEs

Wi-FiBackhaul

LTEGateway

Versatile design for a wide range of products

Quad-core ARM(A7+NEON+FPU)

638MHz

Crypto + PRNG

HNAT

5GE L2/3/4Switch EnginePSGMII/

SGMII

DDR3L

RGMII

PCIe 2.0

2*12C

GPIOs

LCD interface

SPI Flash

SD/eMMC

WC1/2 coex

UART

USB 2.0

USB 3.0PCM/SPDIFI2S/TDM

Wi-FiCPU #1

Wi-FiCPU #2

5GHzWi-Fi 2x2 11acMAC/BB/RFA

ONFINAND Flash

2.4GHz / 5GHzWi-Fi 2x2 11acMAC/BB/RFA

Hard drive

Flash card

QFE1922(2G FEM)

BT/BTLE

QFE1952(5G FEM)

CAT4/6/9LTE modem

Audio Codec

SLIC VoIP

LCD screen

QFE8035/3/1(1 port GE PHY)

NFC/Zigbee/Z-wave

QFE8075/2(5/2 ports GE PHY)

QCA99xx/QCA98883rd Wi-Fi

indicates only supported in IPQ40x9