PowerQUICC™ II Pro Meets All Your "Power" Needs

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The PowerQUICC II Pro family excels in high performance embedded applications requiring basic network connectivity as well as specialized protocol processing applications found in netcomm, entry level home office, industrial control or medical device designs.

The PowerQUICC II Pro Family consists of the MPC8313E, MPC8323E, MPC8349E and MPC8360E devices that are all based on Freescale’s e300 Power Architecture™ core. Scaled from 200-667MHz operating frequency (2 instructions per MHz) while consuming in operation 2W to 8W, they provide high performance in an aggressive power envelope.

The Family offers two lines based on the connectivity required by your application – Ethernet “only” and hardware assisted protocol processing. The MPC8313E and MPC8349E family offer high speed Ethernet controllers with a mix of other peripherals for high performance connected embedded control. The MPC8323E family and MPC8360E are super set devices that offer hardware assisted protocol processing capabilities above the “Ethernet only” devices.

As our newest member for cost effective embedded control, the MPC8313E integrates Power Management for “sleep-mode” applications and high speed networking peripherals – 2 x 10/100/ 1000 Ethernet controllers and 480Mbps USB (PHY on board) and PCI. Floating Point, DDR2 SRAM control and hardware security acceleration round out the features.

At the opposite end of the PowerQUICC II Pro family is the MPC8360E, which operates up to 667MHz and provides up to 2 Gigabit Ethernet or 8 10/100 Ethernet ports and hardware assisted protocol processing.

Whether your system is power-sensitive, computationally demanding or I/O intensive, Freescale Semiconductor offers the scalable processing performance, breadth of connectivity technology, and integration expertise to address the design challenge.

 

 

FEATURES Scaled from 200-667MHz operating frequency 2W to 8W operating wattage Provide high performance in an aggressive power envelope Scalable processing performance

APPLICATIONS Consumer premise equipment Small office/home office gateways Wireless and wireline infrastructure products Industrial control

 

MPC8349E-mITX Board

 

 

MPC8313E : MPC8313E PowerQUICC II Pro Processor

Rapid growth of personal and premium content has created a need for deploying more interactive multimedia services inside the home. The MPC8313E processor family enables feature rich applications that enhance the digital home experience. The cost-effective MPC8313E communications processor family meets the requirements of several small office/home office (SOHO), printing, IP services and industrial control applications. It provides more CPU performance, additional functionality and faster interfaces while addressing important time to market, price, power consumption and board real estate requirements. The introduction of Gigabit Ethernet (SGMII), High-Speed USB 2.0, and low-power management makes it unique in the marketplace. For extremely precise clock synchronization for applications such as time-sensitive telecommunications services, industrial network switches, powerline networks and test/measurement devices, the MPC8313E features integrated IEEE® 1588 time synchronization, the leading-edge standard.

 

Core Complex

The MPC8313E family incorporates a unique configuration of the e300 (MPC603E based) core. This configuration has been designed to include dual integer units as well as a modified multiply instruction. These architectural enhancements enable more efficient operations to be executed in parallel, resulting in a significant performance improvement. The e300 core complex also includes 16KB of L1 instruction and data caches and on-chip memory management units (MMUs).

 

Peripheral Interfaces

The MPC8313E family also includes a 32-bit double data rate (DDR1/DDR2) memory controller, a 32-bit peripheral component interconnect (PCI) controller, a 16-bit local bus and four direct memory access (DMA) channels.

 

Hardware Security Engine

The security engine (SEC 2.2) on the MPC8313E allows CPU-intensive cryptographic operations to be off-loaded from the main CPU core. The security processing accelerator provides hardware acceleration for the DES, 3DES, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA)-1 and MD-5 algorithms.

 

 

 

MPC8323E : PowerQUICC II Pro Processor

The MPC8323E PowerQUICC™ II Pro family includes the MPC8323E, MPC8323, MPC8321E and MPC8321. This cost-effective communications processor family meets the requirements of several small office/home office (SOHO), access, IP services and industrial control applications. It provides better CPU performance, additional functionality and faster interfaces than current PowerQUICC™ II processors while addressing important time to market, price, power consumption and board real estate requirements

 

Core Complex

The MPC8323E incorporates a unique configuration of the e300c2 (MPC603e-based) core. While this version of e300 core does not have a Floating-Point Unit (FPU) it has been designed to include dual integer units as well as a modified multiply instruction. These architectural enhancements enable more efficient operations to be executed in parallel, resulting in significant performance improvement. The core also includes 16 Kbytes of L1 instruction and data caches and on-chip memory management units (MMUs). The MPC8323E also includes a 32-bit PCI controller, four DMA channels, a flexible local bus, and a 32-bit DDR-1/DDR-2 SDRAM memory controller.

 

QUICC Engine™ Technology

A new single-RISC version of the QUICC Engine™ communications engine forms the heart of the networking capability of the MPC8323E. The QUICC Engine block contains several peripheral controllers and a single 32-bit reduced instruction set computing (RISC) controller. Unique microcode packages provide support for NAT, Firewall, IPSec, and Advanced Quality of Service (QoS). Protocol support is provided by the main workhorses of the device - the unified communication controllers (UCCs). Each of the five UCCs can support a variety of communication protocols:

• 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
• Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) support up to OC-3 speeds
• Serial ATM
• Multi-physical layer (PHY) ATM
• High-level data link control (HDLC)
• Time division multiplexing (TDM)
• Binary synchronous communications protocol (BISYNC)
• UCC can also support USB 2.0 (full/low speed)

In addition, the QUICC Engine can also support a Universal Test and Operations PHY Interface for ATM (UTOPIA) level 2 for up to 31 multi-PHY.

 

Hardware Security Engine

The security engine (SEC 2.2) on the MPC8323E and MPC8321E allows CPU-intensive cryptographic operations to be off-loaded from the main CPU core. The security-processing accelerator provides hardware acceleration for DES, 3DES, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA)-1 and MD-5 algorithms.

 

System Interface Unit

The MPC8323E family also includes a 32-bit double data rate (DDR)-1/DDR/2 memory controller, a 32-bit peripheral component interconnect (PCI) controller, a 16-bit local bus and four direct memory access (DMA) channels

 

Typical Applications

• Residential gateways
• SOHO networking
• VPN routers
• Access points
• DSLAM line cards
• Industrial control
• Test and measurement equipment

 

Features

• e300 core built on Power Architecture technology with dual integer units enables more efficient operations to be conducted in parallel, resulting in significant performance improvement
• The single-RISC QUICC Engine communications block offers a future-proof solution for next-generation designs by supporting programmable protocol termination and network interface termination to meet evolving protocol standards
• Single platform architecture supports the convergence of IP packet networks and ATM networks
• DDR-1/DDR-2 memory controller - one 32-bit interface operating at up to 266 MHz supporting both DDR-1 and DDR-2
• Peripheral interfaces such as 32-bit, 66 MHz PCI, 16-bit, 66 MHz local bus interface and USB 2.0 (full/low speed)
• Security engine provides acceleration for control and data plane security protocols
• High degree of software compatibility with previous-generation PowerQUICC processor-based designs for backward compatibility and easier software migration

 

 

e300 core operating from 266MHz up to 400MHz (enhanced version of 603e core with larger caches)

• 32-bit, high-performance superscalar core
• 1260MIPS @ 667MHz
• Double-precision floating point, integer, load/store, system register, and branch processor units
• 32KB data and 32KB instruction cache with line locking support
• DDR memory controller, up to 333MHz data rate, with a 32-bit interface with ECC
• Dual PCI interfaces
• Dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet controllers
• Embedded security engine
• Dual Hi-Speed USB controllers
• Local bus controller
• Dual UART (DUART)
• Dual I²C interfaces (master or slave mode)

 

 

MPC8349E : PowerQUICC II Pro family

The MPC8349E PowerQUICC II™ Pro family of integrated communications processors is a next-generation extension of the popular PowerQUICC II line. Based on a system-on-chip (SoC) architecture, the MPC8349E PowerQUICC II Pro Family integrates the enhanced e300 core and advanced features, such as DDR memory, Dual Gigabit Ethernet, Dual PCI and Hi-Speed USB controllers. With clock speeds scaling to 667MHz, the MPC8349E family of processors offers the highest performing PowerQUICC II devices available.

The MPC8349E PowerQUICC II Pro Family is designed to provide a cost-effective, highly integrated control processing solution that addresses the emerging needs of networking, communications and pervasive computing applications. MPC8349E processors can be used in applications such as Ethernet routers and switches, wireless LAN (WLAN) equipment, network storage, home network appliances, industrial control equipment, and copiers, printers and other imaging systems.

 

e300 SoC Platform

The MPC8349E PowerQUICC II Pro Family is based on the e300 SoC platform—making it easy and fast to add or remove functional blocks and develop additional SoC-based family members targeting emerging market requirements. At the heart of the e300 SoC platform is Freescale Semiconductor's e300 core. Based on the classic instruction-set architecture, the e300 core is an enhanced version of the 603e core used in previous-generation PowerQUICC II processors. Enhancements include twice as much L1 cache (32KB data cache and 32KB instruction cache) with integrated parity checking, and other performance-enhancing features. The e300 core is completely software-compatible with existing 603e core-based products.

 

Integrated Security

The MPC8349E Family features a powerful integrated security engine derived from Freescale Semiconductor's security coprocessor product line. The MPC8349E Family's security engine supports DES, 3DES, MD-5, SHA-1, AES, and ARC-4 encryption algorithms, as well as a public key accelerator and an on-chip random number generator. The security engine is capable of single-pass encryption and authentication, as required by IPsec, IEEE® 802.11i standard and other security protocols.

 

 

MPC8349E Features

e300 core operating from 400MHz up to 667MHz (enhanced version of 603e core with larger caches)

• 32-bit, high-performance superscalar core
• 1260MIPS @ 667MHz
• Double-precision floating point, integer, load/store, system register, and branch processor units
• 32KB data and 32KB instruction cache with line locking support
• DDR memory controller, up to 333MHz data rate, with 32- or 64-bit interfaces with ECC
• Dual PCI interfaces
• Dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet controllers
• Embedded security engine
• Dual Hi-Speed USB controllers
• Local bus controller
• Dual UART (DUART)
• Dual I²C interfaces (master or slave mode)
• Four-channel DMA controller
• Serial peripheral interface (SPI)
• General-purpose parallel I/O (GPIO)
• IEEE 1149.1 JTAG test access port
• Package: 672-pin, 35mm x 35mm TBGA (1mm pitch)
• Process technology: 130nm CMOS
• Voltage: 1.2V core voltage with 3.3V and 2.5V I/O

 

 

NetComm - PowerQUICC

This course provides a high-level overview of the Freescale PowerQUICC family of communications processors. It provides a short history of the Freescale PowerQUICC family of products and why Freescale is the market leader in this area. The course also teaches the key features and target markets of each product in the PowerQUICC family and how each operates.

 

 

 Featured Products

Part Number		Description	Data Sheet	App. Notes
MPC8313E-RDB		MPC8313E PowerQUICC II Pro Processor Evaluation Board
MPC8323E-RDB		MPC8323E PowerQUICC II Pro Processor Evaluation Board
MPC8349E-MITXE		MPC8349E PowerQUICC II Pro Processor Evaluation Board

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