NEXT GENERATION OF LOW POWER, HIGH PERFORMANCE POWERQUICC III PROCESSORS

The MPC8544/E processor is designed to offer a wide range of high-speed connectivity options, including Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) interfaces with SGMII support and multiple PCI Express® connections. Support for these high-speed interfaces should enable scalable connectivity to network processors and/or ASICs in the data plane while the PowerQUICC III is designed to handle complex, computationally demanding control plane processing tasks.
The MPC8544/E is also designed to provide support for legacy PowerQUICC III interfaces such as PCI, I2C, dual universal asynchronous receiver/transmitters (DUART) and local bus connections. These processors are also designed to feature a next-generation double data rate (DDR2) memory controller, enhanced GigE support, v2 e500 double precision floating point and the field proven 90 nm PowerQUICC III integrated security engines.

MPC85XX PowerQUICC III FamilyFamily Technical Specifications

e500 core, up to 1.5 GHz / 3065 MIPS (million instructions per second)
Up to 512 KB L2 cache
32 KB instruction cache/32 KB data cache
DDR or DDR1/DDR2 SDRAM memory controllers
Multiple PCI interface support, including PCI, PCI-X and PCI Express
Rapid-IO technology (MPC8540, MPC8560, MPC8543E and MPC8548E)
Up to 2 inter-integrated circuit (I²C) interfaces
Up to 4 Gigabit Ethernet controllers
UTOPIA II ATM support (MPC8555E and MPC8560)
Integrated security engine
783-pin FCBGA packaging

MPC8544 Development Platform-PPCEVAL-DS-8544

Includes Linux® 2.6.19+ BSP with optimized drivers to support all peripherals and a limited CodeWarrior® development tools evaluation license.

Key Highlights of MPC8544

Development Platform

ATX form factor
Memory DDR2 (up to 533Mhz) Up to two slots / x64/72 bus width
PCIesupport x1 for
M1575 / x1/x2/x4 for slot #1 /
x1/x2/x4 for slot #2
SGMII via plug-in card
Southbridge functionality SATA, PATA, USB, PCI, Realtimeclock, audio,
Dual PCI slot support

Tune-able core voltage
Dual three-speed Ethernet ports
Serial Port (Can be UART 1 or 2)
Local bus support for Boot Flash, Flash emulator, Memory mapped registers, Compact Flash header
All 8544 config pins supported
JTAG support
I²C support for ID, config, & DDR proms
GPIO support