Datasheet for Qualcomm Atheros AR7100

High performance, low cost & scalable wireless network processor family

AR7100 Product Overview
The AR7100 is Atheros\' family of high performance, cost effective and scalable wireless network processors that enable efficient design of solutions that address triple play services like voice, video and data. When combined with the Atheros IEEE 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g and draft 802.11n wireless chipsets, the AR7100 provides customers with best in class WLAN solutions for home and enterprise access points, routers and gateway applications.
The Atheros AR7100 wireless network processors offer a rich array of interfaces to support next-generation multimedia applications, such as dual USB 2.0 ports for wireless network storage and printing, a PCM interface for analog and VoIP telephony, and an I2S interface for audio streaming through the router. In addition, the AR7100 supports the PCI 2.3 interface to connect to WLAN modules, dual 10/100/1000 ethernet interfaces to support LAN and WAN connectivity up to gigabit rates with a DDR controller to support large bandwidth applications.