Freescale processor is suited to wireless apps

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Sep 17, 2009

Freescale is offering its QorIQ P4080 processor, combining control, datapath and application layer processing, which lowers part counts, reduces system cost and shrinks product footprints.

The P4040 is well suited for wireless infrastructure, enterprise routing and switching and industrial applications.

It is manufactured using 45nm process technology and features dual memory controllers and the same advanced caching, interconnect acceleration and high-speed I/O technologies as the P4080 processor.

The P4040 also leverages the P4080's embedded hypervisor and Datapath Acceleration Architecture technologies.

The device integrates four industry-leading e500mc cores based on Power Architecture technology, delivering frequencies of 1.5GHz per core.

Each core has a dedicated 128KB L2 backside cache and access to 2MB of shared frontside L3 cache.

Full processor independence, including the ability to boot and reset each individual e500mc core, is a defining characteristic of the P4040 device.

In addition, the P4040 has dual-memory controllers that support DDR2 or DDR3 memories allowing board designers to utilise the latest memory technologies.

The P4040 integrates I/O technologies, including dual 10Gbps Ethernet (XAUI) controllers and eight 1Gbps Ethernet (SGMII) controllers for packetised data processing.

For non-packetised processing, there are three PCI Express v2.0 controllers/ports running at up to 5GHz and two Serial RapidIO controllers/ports running up to 3.125GHz.

The P4040 is supported by an ecosystem of enablement partners and technologies.