IPQ40x8/IPQ40x9

Industry’s First Wave 2 802.11ac Wi-Fi System-on-Chip

for Routers, Gateways and Access Points

Quad-core A7 32KB instruction cache

with FPU & NEON 32KB data cache per core
256KB L2 cache (shared)
Dynamic Frequency Scaling
Fully Integrated System-on-Chip
Single chip 2x2+2x2 Dual Band, Flash and memory SPI (x1b), ONFI (x8b),
Dual Concurrent SoC with Wave 2 11ac SD/MMC (x1/8b) flash
The IPQ40x8/x9 represents another leap forward X8/16 DDR3L memory up to 1333 MHz data rate
utilizing 11ac to prepare home networks for the next
generation of connected services, apps, systems and Wi-Fi subsystem 2x2/2GHz (or 5 GHz) 11ac + 2x2/5GHz 11ac Wave 2
things. This highly integrated product is the latest Wi-Fi on-chip
addition to the Qualcomm® Atheros Smart Gateway Dedicated CPU and subsystem per Wi-Fi band
Platform, a product of Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. that for Wi-Fi offloading and feature growth
enables OEM’s to take Wave 2 11ac benefits to
mainstream markets. Optimized features, size, cost Network Subsystem Integrated L2/3 switch/router and ACL
and power efficiency make this the most versatile Hardware NAT engine
solution yet. Traffic steering
Seamless integration with Linux network stack
Highly configurable
Supports multiple configurations of two 2.4GHz Security Crypto engine: Secure boot, Trust Zone: PRNG
and/or 5GHz Wi-Fi radios or even tri-band (with
60GHz) with a 3rd radio on PCIe. Additional support High Speed I/O 1x PCIe, 1x PSGMII/SGMII, 1x USB 3.0
for a rich set of interfaces including USB 3.0, LCD,
SD/eMIMC, multi-channel audio, LTE and Ethernet. Other peripherals USB 2.0, TDM/PCM, I2S, SPDIF, I2C, SPI, UART,
WCI1/2, 1xRGMII, 2xRMII
Small form-factor

Integrated design enables significantly reduced
size footprint (as small as 2.5 x 2.5 inch) to enable
smaller DBDC 11ac Wi-Fi gateways, access points LCD screen DDR3L SPI Flash
and wireless repeaters. ONFI Flash card
SLIC VoIP LCD interface NAND Flash
Quad-core ARM
SD/eMMC Hard drive
Cost-effective performance Audio Codec I2S/TDM (A7+NEON+FPU)
Brings advanced capabilities (including 802.11ac PCM/SPDIF 638MHz USB 3.0
NFC/Zigbee/ CAT4/6/9
Wave 2 MU-MIMO) to main-stream with this Z-wave USB 2.0 LTE modem
GPIOs
highly integrated SoC. Product features include
UART
quad-core A7 processor + DBDC 2-stream 11ac QCA99xx/
BT/BTLE
QCA9888 2*12C Crypto + PRNG
Wave 2 Wi-Fi + 5 port Gigabit Ethernet Switch. WC1/2 coex
3rd Wi-Fi
PCIe 2.0 HNAT Wi-Fi 2.4GHz / 5GHz
Wi-Fi 2x2 11ac QFE1922
QFE8035/3/1 CPU #1 (2G FEM)
(1 port GE PHY) MAC/BB/RFA
RGMII
QFE8075/2 5GE L2/3/4 5GHz
Switch Engine Wi-Fi QFE1952
(5/2 ports PSGMII/ Wi-Fi 2x2 11ac
(5G FEM)
GE PHY) CPU #2 MAC/BB/RFA
SGMII

indicates only supported in IPQ40x9

Versatile design for a wide range of products

Range Smart Home Enterprise Residential Wi-Fi LTE

Extender Gateway APs CPEs Backhaul Gateway

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