The CIP2 provides up to two channel-attachment interfaces for Cisco 7000 series and Cisco 7500 series routers. The interfaces are mounted on separate boards called channel adapters, and attach to the motherboard by means of a multipin connector located at the rear edge of the channel adapter. The CIP2 has two DRAM SIMMs and comes configured with 32 MB of DRAM as the minimum standard memory configuration. The CIP2 also has a Flash memory device for storing the CIP2 microcode boot image.