Unleash Your SoC Design Possibilities with Power Architecture™ e200 Cores

Sure, Freescale has the broadest portfolio of Power Architecture processors in the world. But sometimes you might just want to build your own.

Proven technology open for licensing

Freescale is licensing our e200 core family, built on Power Architecture technology, through an agreement with IP licensing specialist IPextreme. Chip designers now have ready access to this full range of high-performance, low-power, small-footprint cores that is software compatible with the extensive Power Architecture installed base and that is supported by a large and growing ecosystem of development tools.

The e200 core family has been integral to Freescale's MPC5500 automotive microcontroller (MCU) family, driving powertrain, chassis, safety, and body electronics applications. In fact, Freescale has shipped more than one million MPC5500 family MCUs with zero-defect quality. You can access this proven core technology today for implementation in your custom SoCs.

Adaptable for a wide assortment of applications

While the e200 core family is an ideal platform for automotive applications, its performance range and standard embedded features make it very adaptable for a number of uses in aerospace and defense, industrial, networking and consumer too. Consider the e200 core platform for:

• High-performance, real-time environments where there is a need for increased system processing capabilities.
• Low-power, low-cost and time-to-market-sensitive embedded applications needing complex real-time control and low interrupt latency.
• Harsh environments needing support for temperature ranges anywhere from -40°C to +125°C.

Here are some application possibilities: robotics, navigation control, autonomous unmanned vehicles (AUV), power management, fuel control, environment control, camshaft positioning, spark timing, alternative energy, turbine control, aircraft fuel control, actuator control, digital TVs, set-top boxes, Wi-Fi access points.

What capabilities make the e200 core family so adaptable? First, it implements the Power instruction set architecture (ISA) version 2.03 – and more specifically, implements Variable Length Encoding (VLE) code compression and Signal Processing Engine (SPE) DSP-like functions. These capabilities improve code performance, enabling the small e200 cores to do a lot for their size. Furthermore, these cores all leverage the standard AMBA bus interface for interacting with on-chip peripherals and the standard Nexus debug interface. These common interfaces promote very flexible implementations.

Design your e200 core SoC today

IPextreme, a long-time partner to Freescale and fellow member of Power.org, makes it straight-forward for customers to integrate e200 core IP into their designs by delivering complete IP in EDA-neutral packaging. IPextreme also provides expert customer support and maintenance for the e200 core technology.

The e200 core family members available through IPextreme include: e200z0, e200z1, e200z3 and e200z6.

By offering Power Architecture core IP to the marketplace, Freescale and IPextreme are enabling chip designers to leverage this world-class architecture in a wide assortment of embedded solutions. The possibilities are yours to explore.