• Specification

These specs are based on the 4.xx series of drivers for the bcm43xx chipset by Broadcom. These specs support all A PHY, G PHY, and LP PHY cards. Specs for N PHY and SSLPN PHY cards are in progress. For BPHY Specs, please see the v3 specs at http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net

Note that these specs are still incomplete. Some information may only be available in the older specs document. Please let us know if you see something missing from these specs but present in the old specs document.

BCM43xx Specification

• Backplane - Interconnect between cores

• Cores - Each core provides specific functionality

• 802.11 - Quick link to the 802.11 Core

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• Definitions

• Chipsets - We no longer collect information about chipsets.

• Broadcom's specification for the BCM5365P contains a lot of information about the backplane (and a lot of other stuff)

Other things

• The IRC channel #bcm-specs was available on sipsolutions.net, but I've shut it down. Old logs are available from http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/irc-logs/?C=N;O=D.

• Implementation of this spec at http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/