Datasheet for Qualcomm Atheros AR8216

Industry’s Lowest Cost Fast Ethernet Switch

Atheros AR8216
The AR8216 is Atheros’ first Ethernet switch product and is the industry’s lowest cost, 6-port 10/100 Fast Ethernet switch. The AR8216 is designed to support a wide array of cost-sensitive wired and wireless networking applications and targets mainstream 802.11n and 802.11g wireless router and gateway platforms. The AR8216 offers design flexibility with its 6-port configuration consisting of five 10/100 Ethernet PHY ports, one MII port for CPU connectivity and six independent Media Access Controllers (MACs).
The AR8216 offers high levels of integration with the industry’s smallest footprint achieved through a significantly reduced number of system components in a compact 10mm x 10mm, low-profile quad flat package (LQFP). As a result, it delivers the industry’s lowest RBOM, optimized design flexibility and increased cost savings.
To provide non-blocking switching performance in all traffic environments, the AR8216 supports an advanced QoS architecture. This unique Atheros-designed architecture prioritizes switch traffic for different classes of applications, such as voice traffic for IP phones, video traffic for multimedia and data traffic for e-mail.
With the launch of this high-performance, low-cost Ethernet switch solution, Atheros now provides its networking customers with all of the major silicon required for complete wire-to-wireless router solutions.