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Chapter 1 Cisco 7500 Series Product Overview
Route Switch Processor Overview
Note For the Cisco IOS releases that are supported on the RSP16 refer to the Software Advisor at
Storing the IOS software images in Flash memory enables you to download and boot from upgraded
Cisco IOS software images remotely or from software images resident in the RSP16 Flash memory,
without having to remove and replace read-only memory (ROM) devices.
Figure 1-23 Route Switch Processor (RSP16)
The RSP16 also contains:
• Most of the additional memory components used by the system, including 16-MB onboard Flash
memory and up to two Flash Disks (48 MB, 64 MB, or 128 MB per Flash Disk, with the 48-MB
Flash Disk being the shipping default).
1 Queues and Accumulators (QA) ASIC (U39) 8
2 MEMD Control (MC) ASIC 9
3 dBus FPGA 10 PC card slot 0: bottom
PC card slot 1: top
(For Flash Disks)
4 Bus connectors 11 Boot Flash SIMM
5 CPU 12 MEMD Data ASIC
6 SDRAM DIMMs (bank 0: bottom)
SDRAM DIMMs (bank 1: top)
13 NVRAM
7 Console port
ROUTE SWITCH PROCESSOR 16
ACTIVE/STANDBY
CPU HALT
RESET
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STANDBY
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