Product Brief
BCM53154
Description
Low-Power Five-Port GbE
Time-Sensitive Networking Switch
The Broadcom® BCM53154 is a next-generation ultra-low-power five-port
GbE switch. The BCM53154 is based on the new 28-nm RoboSwitch™ 2
architecture and focuses on power-sensitive applications up to five ports—
specifically daisy-chain and star topologies in industrial environments as
well as low port count unmanaged and web-managed SMB switches.
The BCM53154 supports four 10/100/1000BASE-T ports with integrated
GPHYs, a single 1GbE/2.5GbE SGMII port, and a single RGMII 1GbE port.
Key Features
• Four 1GbE GPHY ports
• One 1GbE/2.5GbE SGMII port
• An RGMII port to connect to an
external CPU (or be used as a 1GbE
customer port)
• An integrated ARM Cortex-M7 CPU
• Pin-to-pin compatibility to
RoboSwitch 2 BCM53112 and
BCM5316X devices
• TSN support: IEEE 802.1Qav, IEEE
802.1Qbv, IEEE 802.1Qci, IEEE
802.1AS, Cut-through
• IEEE 802.1BR port extender
• Supports Virtual Switching
Instances (VSI) and advanced QoS
features (policers, shapers, WRR,
SP, and so on)
• CFP for classifying traffic up to L4
• Power-saving green technology
per IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient
Ethernet
• Supports industrial temperature
range (−40°C to +85°C)
The BCM53154 is designed for next-generation cost-sensitive applications
in the Industrial and SMB markets that require advanced forwarding
engines that were not available in prior ICs. Specifically, this new switch
supports Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) and low-latency cut-through
forwarding technologies that are essential in many of today’s Industrial
market segments. The BCM53154 also supports the new IEEE 802.1BR Port-
Extender standard that enables the construction of large, yet extremely
cost-effective, distributed SMB switching platforms.
Users of the BCM53154 can take advantage of the IC-integrated ARM CPU
to build a complete SMB or Industrial switching solution without adding
an external processor. More so, for software needs users can utilize the
RoboSwitch 2 ROBO-OS™ operating system and significantly reduce their
time-to-market with the new hardware.
The BCM53154 is pin-to-pin compatible to RoboSwitch 2 devices BCM53112
and BCM5316X. This compatibility enables customers to easily build a full
portfolio of industrial and SMB switches with almost no changes to their
main PCBs. The new portfolio can support any speed from 100 Mb/s to
10GbE and any port count, from as small as 3-port switches up to 24-port
switches by cascading two BCM53162 devices.
The BCM53154 supports many high-end features such as Virtual Switching
Instances (VSI) for improving VLAN segregation for security-enhanced
solutions, advanced QoS mechanism with ingress and egress rate-limiting,
and a Content Field Processor (CFP) that enable users to classify traffic
according to OSI model L1 to L4 fields.
The BCM53154 is supported by all software suites designed for the
RoboSwitch 2 architecture. Basic, unmanaged software can be used to
construct unmanaged switches with basic functionalities and no VLAN
segregation. Web-managed software (such as the ROBO-OS operating
system) can be used to build web-controlled switches while full-featured
SDK software can be used to construct managed devices that are
controlled by an external CPU.
Applications
• Industrial Ethernet
• Unmanaged/web-managed/
managed standalone SMB switches
• Port extension solutions
RoboSwitch™ Technology
Product Brief
Benefits
• Ultra-low-power design. Power can be further reduced for low port count applications (ports can be shut-off via
software).
• Pin-to-pin compatibility with RoboSwitch 2 product families, specifically the BCM53162 to BCM5316X. This
enables customers to build a large product portfolio with anything from 2-port to 24-port switches with the same
base design.
• Advanced TSN protocol support such as IEEE 802.1Qav, IEEE 802.1Qbv, IEEE 802.1ASrev, and IEEE 802.1Qci for
scheduling time-critical traffic streams across an entire network domain.
• Support for high-end QoS capabilities with hierarchical scheduling, eight egress buffer queues per port each with
its own shaper, congestion avoidance mechanism, and dual leaky bucket ingress rate limiters.
• Advanced CFP (such as an access-list engine) that can classify up to L4 headers.
• Support for VSI for explicit segregation of bridging domains with advanced VLAN translation and encapsulation
(for example, MAC-in-MAC).
• Port-extender support, per IEEE 802.1BR, for designing modular chassis devices or pizza box platforms with
remote port extensions.
• Delivered with unmanaged software, web-managed software, or two different managed SDK software
(RoboSwitch SDK and Network Switch SDK).
Figure 1: Daisy-Chain Application Using the BCM53154
Figure 2: BCM53154 Block Diagram
SPI
RGMII
LED
QSPI
MFIO
I
2
C
MDIO
GPIO
GMAC
LED
Processor
Microcontroller
8051
ARM
Cortex-M7
L2
Processing
(16K MAC)
Time
Sync
Memory Manager
8 COS SP.WDRR.
WRR, WRED
Meters and Counters
(512 flows meters,
128 port meters)
GMAC
GPHY
GMAC
GPHY
GMAC
GPHY
GMAC
GPHY
GMAC
CFP
(1K Rules)
Packet
Bu er
(1 MB)
SCADA or Controller
Field Devices/Remote I/O
Ordering Information
Description
Intelligent, managed 100/1000BASE-T GPHY Roboswitch 2 Switch
with 4× 10/100/1000BASE-T + 1× 1000FX/2500FX SGMII+ + 1× 1GE RGMII ports
Ambient Temperature
Industrial
(−40°C to +85°C)
4× 10/100/1000BASE-T
1GbE/2.5GbE
SGMII+
Package
19 mm x 19 mm
Device ID
BCM53154MB1ILFBG
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