Freescale opens QUICC Engine architecture, enabling
developers to customize microcode and expand application possibilities
Freescale proudly announces the Open QUICC Engine™ technology program
for customers and third-party developers who want to optimize the communications
functionality of applications that leverage Freescale's QUICC Engine technology.
Initial members of the Open QUICC Engine technology program include DoGav
Systems, IndusRAD,
Inc. and Wipro Technologies.
These third-party partners have been trained and enabled by Freescale to
take on customers' application ideas and turn them into downloadable QUICC
Engine technology software.
Freescale also invites customers to contact the Open QUICC Engine technology
team to discuss opportunities for early adopter engagement.
The Open QUICC Engine technology program enables developers to:
- Customize Freescale microcode that runs on QUICC Engine technology to
support a wide range of industry-standard communications interfaces and
protocols.
- Implement new application-specific functions in microcode without having
to add ASIC or FPGA devices to their applications.
- Turn QUICC Engine technology-based devices into multicore engines.
- Transform application ideas into software optimized for QUICC Engine
technology.
QUICC Engine technology is Freescale's next-generation communications engine
designed to offload bandwidth-intensive processing tasks from a control-plane
CPU, such as a PowerQUICC™ processor built on Power Architecture technology,
or from a DSP. Introduced in the MPC8360E PowerQUICC II Pro processor family
and extensible to other Freescale processor architectures, QUICC Engine technology
supports a wide range of communications protocols and functions through microcode.
These include Layer 1 physical interfaces; Layer 2 termination, forwarding
and interworking; Layer 3 interworking and forwarding; Layer 4 identification
and forwarding; IP/Ethernet and ATM traffic management; and quality of service.
Customized microcode will be portable and scalable across QUICC Engine technology-based
processor platforms and applications. The microcode also will be compatible
with major operating systems, such as the Linux OS, Integrity OS from Green
Hills Software and VxWorks RTOS from Wind River Systems.
For more details about the Open QUICC Engine program, please contact us
at openqe@freescale.com.
