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| Freescale Extends its PowerQUICC III Processor Family Freescale Semiconductor's communications processor families have defined and delivered innovation for more than fifteen years. Continuing this tradition is the MPC8544E, the newest member of the PowerQUICC III family. The MPC8544E is designed to address growing demand for advanced interconnect technologies and low power consumption in high performance applications. It incorporates SGMII interfaces and three multi-lane PCI Express ports. Additionally, the MPC8544E is one of the industry's lowest power-consumption system-on-chips to deliver gigabit performance. Consuming only 3.75 W typical core power at gigahertz operation, the MPC8544E greatly reduces the challenges of thermal management in fanless embedded applications. The MPC8544E is a highly flexible processor configurable for a wide range of applications that demand high general-purpose processing performance. It is well suited for network routers, industrial controllers, imaging systems, enterprise wireless access points and video surveillance/conferencing equipment. The MPC8544E processor offers a flexible SoC platform with an e500v2 core based on Power Architecture technology and a large 256KB L2 Cache. The device provides a wide range of high speed connectivity including two integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet controllers with SGMII interfaces and three PCI Express ports. Hardware acceleration engines onboard the MPC8544E include Double Precision, Floating Point, Signal Processing Engine, TCP Offload and Freescale's Security Acceleration Engine. It operates in extended industrial temperature ranges from -40 to 105 degrees Celsius. The MPC8544 is a derivative of the MPC8548, which performed extremely well in recently released benchmark tests relevant to a number of applications including networking, consumer and telecommunications. The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium has issued certified benchmark scores based on a series of tests conducted on the processor to help designers predict device core performance in a range of real-world applications. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |