Moore's law and frequency scaling can no longer keep up with the demand of embedded systems. In order to achieve higher performance within a fixed power envelope, embedded designers are turning to multicore for their designs. Freescale has developed a series of webinars, whitepapers and a partnership with Critical Blue to help you decide if your application is “ripe” for multicore.

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• Critical Blue Prism Free Evaluation Tool
• Processor Expert for QorIQ Optimization Suite
• QorIQ Development Systems

• Freescale's Embedded Hypervisor for QorIQ P4 Series Communications Platform
• Introducing the e5500 Core
• Tuning QorIQ Processor Performance with Prism Software Analysis

• Code-Compatible, Scalable Portfolio
• New QorIQ Generation: AMP Up Your Performance
• Transitioning to Multicore Processing

• Making the move to multicore: Overview
• Porting code to dual core, quad core, and multicore system-on-chip: The Prism at the end of the rainbow?

Freescale offers a portfolio of QorIQ processors, based on Power Architecture® technology, that scales 50 MHz to 2+ GHz with a rich mixture of cores and accelerators enabling you to design with multiple features, performance, price and power envelopes on a common architectural platform. Our QorIQ processors provide two to 12 cores (and up to 24 virtual cores) at 2500 D/MIPs to 58,000 D/MIPs of throughput. With over 200+ code-compatible products, Freescale’s QorIQ processors are an unmatched portfolio of embedded solutions.

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• QorIQ and PowerQUICC Selector Guide
• QorIQ Parametric Search

• Power QUICC and QorIQ Processor Selector Guide

• Code-Compatible, Scalable Portfolio
• New QorIQ Generation: AMP Up Your Performance
• Multicore Simplified: Single Board Computing
• Trust Architecture: Freescale's Security Solution for Industrial Control Systems (ICS)

Multicore adoption, DDR memory and high-speed I/O all contribute to an increase in board design complexities. Freescale provides design files, development tools and collaborates with partners to help reduce the time spent on hardware layout enabling you to dedicate more cycles to developing differentiated software.

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• Processor Expert for QorIQ Configuration Suite
• Embedded Board Solutions
• USB TAP for Power Architecture
• Reference Designs

• CodeWarrior Hardware TAP Overview
• QorIQ Configuration Suite Walk-Through

• Hardware and Layout Design Considerations for DDR3 SDRAM Memory Interfaces Software Development

• Multicore Simplified: Single Board Computing
• Pick the right multicore virtualization use case for your design
• Using drowsy cores to lower power in multicore SoCs

• The power comes to the Tower System platform
• Go Configure!

Software development around multicore processors requires the application developer to understand many important architectural details to facilitate proper partitioning of applications across multiple processing elements.Taking into account things like system configuration and partitioning helps achieve the best overall performance of the application, while system virtualization can be used to abstract the complexity from the developer and provide flexibility in the solution model. Freescale and our partners help to take the complexity out of software development with a breadth of compelling tools.

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• SDK for Power Architecture® Technology with Data Path Acceleration Architecture
• SDK for Power Architecture® Technology without Data Path Acceleration Architecture
• Linux Board Support Packages
• VortiQa Platform Services Package
• ENEA
• Green Hills Integrity RTOS
• Mentor Embedded Linux
• QNX Neutrino RTOS
• Wind River VxWorks

• QorIQ eSPI Controller Register Setting Considerations and Programming Examples
• Tuning QorIQ Processor Performance with Prism Software Analysis

• Running AMP, SMP or BMP Mode for Multicore Embedded Systems
• Communication Efficiently Between QorIQ Cores in Medical Applications
• Transitioning to Multicore Processing
• Pick the right multicore virtualization use case for your design
• Multicore networking in Linux user space with no performance overhead

• Making the move to multicore: Overview (Part 1)
• Making the move to multicore: Switching strategies (Part 2)
• Making the move to multicore: Parallel processing and memory matters (Part 3)
• Making the move to multicore: A hybrid approach to performance (Part 4)
• Making the move to multicore: Core communications and channels (Part 5)

Freescale’s QorIQ processors, when combined with multicore-aware debug tools like CodeWarrior Development Studio, provide the visibility needed for real-time system debug and performance optimization. We recognize that developers need access to a vast amount of data from deep within the chip while the chip it is operating in its system environment. CodeWarrior tools and the Processor Expert QorIQ Optimization Suite provide scenario and trace data to help you get the most out of your designs.

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• CodeWarrior Development Tools
• Processor Expert for QorIQ Optimization Suite
• Gigabit Tap Trace Probe

• Gigabit Tap Trace Probe: Fact Sheet

• CodeWarrior Hardware TAP Overview Video

• CodeWarrior Tool Tip #1: Improve performance by cleaning house in the Eclipse workspace
• CodeWarrior Tool Tip #3: History repeats itself

Production is not the end of your design cycle, it's the beginning. An investment in an embedded multicore design is not insignificant, so designers are constantly looking for new ways to make the current generation also cover the next-generation design. Companies need to answer questions like "how can I squeeze more performance out of my design?", "how can I add new services?" and "how can I future-proof my supply chain?" are all things to take into consideration as you choose your multicore platform.

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• Critical Blue Prism Tool
• Processor Expert for QorIQ Optimization Suite
• Freescale’s Longevity Program

• QorIQ Optimization Suite Overview Video