Star Semiconductor Corporation 

Star Semiconductor Corporation, as an affiliate of UMC Group, was founded in October 2002. With solid expertise in Gigabit Ethernet and wireless mixed-signal System-on-a-Chip, Star is focusing on the development of broadband home networking SoC solutions for SOHO market. Star has developed and integrated advanced technologies to fulfill system customers' requirements and play the leading roles in SoC solution providers for Gigabit SOHO router, Home Networking Storage, Security Gateway, VoIP gateway and wireless IP camera applications.

With the world leading foundry support of UMC's advanced semiconductor process and alliance with package / testing partners, Star has successfully delivered the most cost-effective SoC solutions with excellent performance and fit the customers' time-to-market needs. Some innovative technology development has been awarded government funding supports, and Star also successfully achieved design-wins from leading OEM / ODM system manufacturers in broadband home networking products.

Product

◎ Broadband Home Gateway Processors (SoC)

STR9100 is a series of highly integrated broadband home gateway processors, providing rich set of peripherals like Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces, USB2.0 Host, PCMCIA, 1.5Mbps UART, and PCI-66 etc., with superior performance for broadband/wireless gateway. Several package options are available for different product cost structure requirements.

Feature

STR9101

STR9104

STR9102

STR9105

ICE Interface Types

ARM-like

M-ICE/ARM-like

M-ICE/ARM-like

M-ICE/ARM-like

Flash Mem. Interface

8/16-bit

8/16-bit

8/16-bit

8/16-bit

DDR Mem. Interface

16-bit

16-bit

16/32-bit

16/32-bit

MAC

1x 10/100M

2x 10/100M

2x 10/100/1000M

2x 10/100

Embedded Switch

N

Y

Y

Y

Hardware NAT Engine

Y

Y

Y

Y

IDP Engine

N

N

N

N

PCI Host Bridge

Y(up to 2 targets)

N

Y(up to 3 targets)

Y(up to 3 targets)

USB 1.1/2.0 PHY/CTL

N

2 ports

2 ports

2 ports

PCMCIA

N

Y

Y

Y

High-speed UART

Y

Y

Y

Y

GPIO*(shared pins)

Y (11)

Y (21)

Y (21)

Y (21)

Package

208-PQFP (28mm*28mm)

257-LFBGA (14mm*14mm)

304-BGA (27mm*27mm)

304-BGA (27mm*27mm)