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PowerQUICC Communications Processors


   

Freescale's Industrial Development Platform



To help you reduce your design cycle and time to revenue, we've partnered with Logic Product Development (LogicPD, IXXAT, IndusRAD and Wind River) to offer you a modular development platform for the popular MPC8360E PowerQUICC® II Pro processor core built on Power Architecture™ technology... MORE


Platforms


  • Digital Home Center Platform
    The MPC8349E-mITX is a turnkey hardware/software reference platform ideal as a 'location-free control access' residential gateway solution.
     
  • Office-in-a-Box
    The MPC8349E provides a cost-effective, highly integrated processing solution that is ideally suited for emerging networking applications such as the converged Office-in-a-Box platform.
     
  • Media Server-in-a-Box
    The MPC8349E-mITX Media Server-in-a-Box solution is a turnkey hardware/software reference platform for home media servers with advanced NAS capabilities. This reference platform is based on the MPC8349E PowerQUICC™ II Pro processor, containing a PowerPC® core and standards-compliant software from Mediabolic.
     
  • Freescale Power Architecture® System-on-Chip (SoC)
    Power Architecture System-on-Chip (SoC) platforms combine the company's Power core portfolio with its broad IP portfolio to deliver scalable performance, connectivity and integration.

Architectural Features


  • QUICC Engine™
    Today's next-generation communications processors share a similar hybrid architecture that combines a powerful processor core with a separate on-chip communications engine.
     
  • Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA)
    Freescale is poised to address the rapidly changing communications market and its projected growth in concert with a host of silicon, software and systems partners.
     
  • RapidIO™
    The RapidIO interconnect is an established, open interconnect standard that is specifically designed for high-performance, embedded networking and computing applications.
     
  • Dual Core Power Architecture Technology
    Leveraging the e600 PowerPC SoC platform, this ground-breaking new architecture integrates two e600 cores along with memory controllers and high-speed interfaces for unprecedented embedded processing performance. Check out the single-core version too.
     

Design Support


Microcodes

Overview of PowerQUICC II Microcodes.
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QUICCstart Evaluation Systems

The QUICCstart Evaluation Systems are simple, capable platforms that enables evaluation and development to begin before the target hardware is available. These kits offer a platform for hardware and software engineers to use in evaluating and prototyping designs that closely parallel final applications.


Partnerships


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