MPC8572 PowerQUICC(TM) III Processor

Freescale Semiconductor

Description:

Freescale has designed the MPC8572 family to provide developers of networking and communications equipment with a high-performance, single-chip processor alternative to software-intensive solutions based on costly, inefficient ASICs and FPGAs within multiple systems. The MPC8572 processor features dual e500 CPU cores scaling to 1.5GHz. This architecture supports symmetric and asymmetric multi-processing, enabling the processor to run multiple operating systems, such as a real-time operating system and Linux(R) OS simultaneously.

The processor features on-chip memory (1MB L2 cache), a DDR2/DDR3 controller and a choice of high-speed interconnects, including multiple Gigabit Ethernet controllers, Serial RapidIO and PCI Express support. These high-speed interconnects enable scalable connectivity to network processors and/or ASICs in the data plane while the MPC8572 handles complex, computationally demanding control plane processing tasks.

The MPC8572's application acceleration platform integrates four powerful engines: a table look-up unit (TLU) that offloads complex table searches and header inspections; a pattern-matching engine (PME) to handle regular expression (reg-ex) matching; a deflate engine to manage file decompression; and a security engine that accelerates crypto operations in IPSec and SSL/TLS for virtual private networks.

Categories:

Boards and Modules > Telecommunications Boards and Modules > Voice/Data Networks Embedded Systems > Access Networks Embedded Systems > Embedded Computing Embedded Systems > Embedded Systems Embedded Systems > Military and Defense Systems Embedded Systems > Storage Embedded Systems > Voice/Data Networks Semiconductors > Communications Processors Semiconductors > Network Processors Semiconductors > Processors