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PowerQUICC

PowerQUICC is the name for several Power Architecture

Power Architecture

Power Architecture is a broad term to describe similar RISC instruction sets for microprocessors developed and manufactured by such companies as IBM, Freescale, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, Tundra Semiconductor and P.A....
based microcontroller

Microcontroller

A microcontroller is a small computer on a single integrated circuit consisting of a relatively simple CPU combined with support functions such as a crystal oscillator, timers, watchdog, serial and analog I/O etc....
s from Freescale Semiconductor

Freescale Semiconductor

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is an American semiconductor manufacturer. It was created by the divestiture of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola in 2004....
. They are built around one or more PowerPC

PowerPC

PowerPC is a RISC instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Apple Inc.?IBM?Motorola alliance, known as AIM alliance. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded system and high-performance processors....
cores and the QUICC Engine which is a separate RISC core specialized in such tasks such as I/O

Input/output

In computing, input/output, or I/O, refers to the communication between an information processing system , and the outside world ? possibly a human, or another information processing system....
, communications, ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

Asynchronous Transfer Mode is an electronic digital data transmission technology. ATM is implemented as a network protocol and was first developed in the mid 1980s....
, security acceleration, network

Computer networking

Computer networking is the engineering discipline concerned with communication between computer systems or Peripheral devices. Networking, routers, routing protocols, and networking over the public Internet have their specifications defined in documents called Request for Commentss....
ing and USB. Many components are System-on-a-chip

System-on-a-chip

System-on-a-chip or system on chip refers to integrating all components of a computer or other Electronics system into a single integrated circuit ....
designs tailor made for embedded

Embedded system

An embedded system is a special-purpose computer system designed to perform one or a few dedicated functions, often with real-time computing constraints....
applications.

PowerQUICC processors are used in networking, automotive, industrial, storage, printing and consumer applications.

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PowerQUICC is the name for several Power Architecture

Power Architecture

Microcontroller

Freescale Semiconductor

PowerPC

Input/output

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

Computer networking

System-on-a-chip

System-on-a-chip or system on chip refers to integrating all components of a computer or other Electronics system into a single integrated circuit ....
designs tailor made for embedded

Embedded system

MobileGT

The mobileGT name refers to both a computing platform and an alliance of vendors in the navigation, infotainment and telematics industries. It focuses on automotive, industrial and consumer electronics based on Power Architecture technology....
platform.

Freescale also manufactures QUICC microcontroller

QUICC

QUICC is the abbreviation of QUad Integrated Communications Controller. The original QUICC was the 68k-based Motorola 68360....
s based on the older 68k

68k

The Motorola 680x0/m68k/68k/68K is a family of 32-bit Complex instruction set computer microprocessor central processing unit chips and was the primary competition for the Intel x86 family of chips in personal computers of the 1980s and early 1990s....
technology.

There are four distinct lines of processors, mainly based on processing power.

PowerQUICC I

The MPC8xx family was Motorola's first PowerPC

PowerPC

PowerPC is a RISC instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Apple Inc.?IBM?Motorola alliance, known as AIM alliance. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded system and high-performance processors....
based embedded processors, suited for network processors and system-on-a-chip

System-on-a-chip

System-on-a-chip or system on chip refers to integrating all components of a computer or other Electronics system into a single integrated circuit ....
devices. The core is an original implementation of the PowerPC specification. It is a single issue, four stage pipelined core with MMU and branch prediction unit with speeds up to 133 MHz. The MPC821 was introduced in 1995 together with MPC860 with a complete QUICC engine. A slimmed down version, MPC850 with reduced caches and IO ports came in 1997. The QUICC communications processor module (CPM) offloads networking tasks from the CPU, thus branding this family as PowerQUICC. All processors in the family differ in on-chip features like USB, serial, PCMCIA, ATM and ethernet controllers and different amount of L1 caches ranging from 1 KiB up to 16 KiB.

MPC8xx – All PowerQUICC processors share this common naming scheme.

MPC821 – The first embedded PowerPC processor, with integrated CPM, but no FPU and came in speeds up to 50 MHz
MPC860 - The first PowerPC with fully integrated QUICC engine, with speeds up to 80 MHz
MPC850 - A low-cost, stripped MPC860 with integrated USB and Ethernet. Speeds up to 50 MHz

PowerQUICC II

PowerQUICC II was introduced in 1998 and is the direct descendant of PowerPC 603e

PowerPC 600

The PowerPC 600 family was the first family of PowerPC microprocessor built. They were designed at the Somerset facility in Austin, Texas, jointly funded and staffed by engineers from IBM and Motorola as a part of the AIM alliance....
and the core also goes under the name 603e or G2. The processors still have 16/16 KiB instruction/data L1 caches, and are reaching frequencies up to 450 MHz. These communications processors are used in applications like VoIP

Voice over IP

Voice over Internet Protocol is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over Internet Protocol networks such as the Internet or other packet-switched Computer network....
systems, telecom switches

Telephone exchange

In the field of telecommunications, a telephone exchange or telephone switch is a system of electronic components that connects telephone calls....
, cellular base stations and DSLAMs

Digital subscriber line access multiplexer

A Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer allows telephone lines to make faster connections to the Internet. It is a network device, located in the telephony exchanges of the service providers, that connects multiple customer Digital Subscriber Lines to a high-speed Internet backbone line using multiplexing techniques....
. The PowerQUICC II family of processors are phased out in favour for the more powerful PowerQUICC II Pro line. There's no plans for further development of this core.

MPC82xx – All PowerQUICC II processors share this common naming scheme.

PowerQUICC II Pro

Introduced in 2004, based on the e300
PowerPC e300

The PowerPC e300 is a family of 32-bit Power Architecture microprocessor cores developed by Freescale for primary use in system-on-a-chip designs with speed ranging up to 667 MHz, thus making them ideal for embedded system....
core, an enhanced PowerPC 603

PowerPC 600

The PowerPC 600 family was the first family of PowerPC microprocessor built. They were designed at the Somerset facility in Austin, Texas, jointly funded and staffed by engineers from IBM and Motorola as a part of the AIM alliance....
e core, with 32/32 KiB instruction/data L1 caches. PowerQUICC II Pro is used as networking processors

Network Processing Unit

Network Processing Unit or NPU is an array of one or more Central processing unit whose instructions are specialized to handle networking-related functions....
for router

Router

A router is a Computer network device whose software and hardware are usually tailored to the tasks of routing and forwarding information. For example, on the Internet, information is directed to various paths by routers....
s, switch

Network switch

A network switch is a computer networking device that connects computer network Network segment.The term commonly refers to a Network bridge that processes and routes data at the Data link layer of the OSI model....
es, printer

Computer printer

File:Lexmark X5100 Series.jpgIn computing, a printer is a peripheral which produces a hard copy of documents stored in computer file form, usually on physical print media such as paper or Transparency ....
s, network-attached storage

Network-attached storage

Network-attached storage is file-level computer data storage connected to a computer network providing data access to heterogeneous network clients....
, wireless access point

Wireless access point

In computer networking, a wireless access point is a device that allows wireless communication devices to connect to a wireless network using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or related standards....
s and DSLAMs

Digital subscriber line access multiplexer

A Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer allows telephone lines to make faster connections to the Internet. It is a network device, located in the telephony exchanges of the service providers, that connects multiple customer Digital Subscriber Lines to a high-speed Internet backbone line using multiplexing techniques....
PowerQUICC II Pro processors reaches 677 MHz, and can include a multitude of embedded technologies like USB, PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect

The PCI Local Bus , or Conventional PCI, is a computer bus for attaching computer hardware in a computer. These devices can take either the form of an integrated circuit fitted onto the motherboard itself, called a planar device in the PCI specification or an expansion card that fits into a socket....
, Ethernet

Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of Data frame-based computer networking technologies for local area networks . The name comes from the physical concept of the Luminiferous aether....
and security devices. They also use a newer QUICC Engine network offload engine instead of the CPM used in the original PowerQUICC I and PowerQUICC II series.

MPC83xx – All PowerQUICC II Pro processors share this common naming scheme. A trailing "E" signifies that the processors have a built in encryption module. All devices with a 834x name lacks the quicc engine, while devices with a number like 836x has one.

MPC8343E - used in the "Killer NIC
Killer NIC

The Bigfoot Networks Killer NIC is designed to circumvent the Microsoft Windows Internet Protocol Suite, and handle processing on the card via a dedicated Network Processing Unit....
" network card
Network card

A network card, network adapter, network interface controller , network interface card, or LAN adapter is a computer hardware component designed to allow computers to communicate over a computer network....
.
MPC8347E
MPC8349E
MPC8358E
MPC8360E

PowerQUICC III

The PowerQUICC III processors are based on a 32-bit Power ISA v.2.03

Power Architecture

PowerPC e500

The PowerPC e500 is a 32-bit Power Architecture based microprocessor Multi-core from Freescale. The core is compatible with the older PowerPC Book E specification as well as the current Power_Architecture#Power_ISA_v.2.03....
, introduced in 2003. It has a dual issue, seven-stage pipeline with double precision FPUs, 32/32 KiB data and instruction L1 caches, multiple Gigabit ethernet, PCI and PCIe, RapidIO

RapidIO

The RapidIO architecture is a high-performance packet-switched, Electrical connection technology for interconnecting Integrated circuit on a Printed circuit board, and also circuit boards to each other using a backplane....
, DDR/DDR2 memory controllers, and security accelerators. Speeds ranges from 533 MHz up to 1.5 GHz. These processors target enterprise level networking and telecom applications, high end storage, printing and imaging. Some of the processors use the older CPM module for the handling network processing offload, some use the newer QUICC Engine (same as in PowerQUICC II Pro), and some do not have a CPM or QUICC Engine at all. Freescale's marketing department nevertheless brand all devices in the 85xx series as being "PowerQUICC III".

MPC85xx – All PowerQUICC III processors share this common naming scheme. A trailing "E" signifies that the processors have a built-in encryption module.

MPC8540 – The world's first RapidIO
RapidIO

The RapidIO architecture is a high-performance packet-switched, Electrical connection technology for interconnecting Integrated circuit on a Printed circuit board, and also circuit boards to each other using a backplane....
enabled host processor. Includes dual Gigabit ethernet controllers, ideal for routers. Speeds from 600 MHz to 1 GHz.
MPC8548/47/43/41(E) - A family of integrated devices included PCI Express and RapidIO, along with a single e500 cores. Each lower number has less abilities than its higher-numbered siblings.
MPC8544 - Similar to the 8548, but produced in a cost-saving 90 nm process and with some differences in the actual feature set.
MPC8560 - Similar to the 8540, this was the first PQ III device launched. It includes a CPM along with the e500 core.
MPC8568/68E/67/67E - Uses the QUICC Engine instead of a CPM, the 8567 has a reduced set of peripheral units.
MPC8569E - e500v2 core frequency of 1.33 GHz, 45 nm fabrication process, enhanced QUICC engine, rich set of periferals and low power requirements.
MPC8572E – Uses dual e500 cores with speed up to 1.5 GHz. Used in high end application-aware networking equipment like firewall
Firewall

Firewall may refer to:* Firewall , a physical barrier inside a building or vehicle, designed to limit the spread of fire, heat and structural collapse...
s and antivirus devices (from Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab

Kaspersky Lab is a computer security company, co-founded by Natalia Kasperskaya and Eugene Kaspersky in 1997, offering antivirus software, anti-spyware, anti-spam , and anti-intrusion products....
).
MPC8574 and MPC8578 – four- and eight-core processors for 3G
3G

3G is the third generation of tele standards and technology for mobile networking, superseding 2.5G. It is based on the International Telecommunication Union family of standards under the IMT-2000....
and WiMAX
WiMAX

File:WiMAX Antenne aufm Land.jpgFile:WiMAX equipment.jpgWiMAX, meaning Worldwide Inter-operability for Microwave Access, is a telecommunications technology that provides wireless Transmission of data using a variety of transmission modes, from Point-to-multipoint links to portable and fully mobile internet access....
basestations. Built on a 45 nm SOI
Silicon on insulator

Silicon on insulator technology refers to the use of a layered silicon-insulator-silicon Substrate in place of conventional silicon substrates in semiconductor manufacturing, especially microelectronics, to reduce parasitic device capacitance and thereby improve....
process in 2008.

Future

PowerQUICC will cease development in favor of the software-compatible QorIQ

QorIQ

QorIQ is Freescale's brand of future 32-bit Power Architecture based communications microcontrollers. It is the evolutionary step from the PowerQUICC platform and will be built around one or more PowerPC e500 cores and come in five different product platforms, P1, P2, P3, P4 and P5, segmented by performance and functionality....
platform featuring all PowerPC e500

PowerPC e500

The PowerPC e500 is a 32-bit Power Architecture based microprocessor Multi-core from Freescale. The core is compatible with the older PowerPC Book E specification as well as the current Power_Architecture#Power_ISA_v.2.03....
based processors, from single core, through multi-core, up to 32 cores. Freescale will keep manufacturing PowerQUICC processors in the foreseeable future for existing customers, but they will help facilitate the transition to QorIQ.

PowerQUICC

PowerQUICC I

PowerQUICC II

PowerQUICC II Pro

PowerQUICC III

Future

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