Freescale Expands High-Performance Acceleration Engine Solutions with QorIQ Platform Boasting Best-in-Class Cost and Power Efficiency
Adoption of high-performance DPAA (Data Path Acceleration Architecture) in the latest P1 and P2 processors, providing cost savings and optimal scalability

August 25, 2010, Seoul — Freescale Semiconductor announced three new QorIQ processors that apply its advanced Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA) programming model for the first time to QorIQ P1 and P2 level multicore products. With the announcement of the P1023/1017 and P2040 communications processors, Freescale DPAA technology has been expanded from single-core to all QorIQ platforms covering 8-cores and operating frequencies from 400 MHz to 2.2 GHz.

By leveraging the common DPAA software architecture, customers can dramatically shorten development cycles by developing code for a single QorIQ processor and then easily scaling it up or down for the entire QorIQ product family. It also enables the development of extremely flexible end products that offer a wide range of price and performance targets.

"With DPAA applied across the entire QorIQ product family, customers can now optimize software investment and reusability by applying software developed for existing QorIQ products to P1 and P2 level QorIQ products," said Preet Virk, Director of Strategic Marketing for Freescale's Networking Processor business unit. "This latest QorIQ product provides the flexibility, scalability, and performance needed to manage increasing IP traffic rates while maintaining a highly competitive price point."

The P1023/P1017 is a highly integrated dual and single-core device, particularly suitable for high-performance 802.11N wireless LAN access points, SMB gateways, and low-cost fixed routers. Key features of this product include low power consumption that meets Power over Ethernet (PoE) requirements, three PCI Express controllers supporting three wireless solutions, datapath load reduction capabilities that optimize the performance of enterprise WLAN access points, and Freescale’s advanced security coprocessor that alleviates the protocol processing load required for encryption algorithms.

The P2040 is a cost-effective, power-optimized quad-core device that delivers market-leading performance and capabilities in solutions such as fixed routers, LTE (Long Term Evolution) channel cards, and enterprise security applications. In addition to featuring DPAA technology to alleviate the load of common packet processing tasks, the P2040 supports flexible SerDes configurations that minimize the required glue logic and includes embedded hypervisor technology that enables true hardware partitioning and virtualization, allowing each core to run its own operating system independently of other cores.

QorIQ DPAA relieves the load of optional tasks on primary processing cores, allowing more critical tasks to be executed on the cores or enabling application performance goals to be achieved at lower frequencies, costs, and power. DPAA consists of a Frame Manager that implements policing, classification, and scheduling on Ethernet ports; a Queue Manager that performs queue management, congestion control, workload distribution, and packet ordering; a Buffer Manager that minimizes memory usage by allocating packets to buffers; a Security Block that implements encryption algorithms; and a Pattern Matching Engine that provides integrated threat management capabilities by searching for text strings in packets.

Freescale provides a single API (Application Programming Interface) to access DPAA, along with a public GUI-based configuration tool and framework application examples for configuring the DPAA infrastructure. DPAA provides near-linear scalability when applying additional cores to tasks.

P1023/1017 Product Features
• Dual (P1023) and single (P1017) e500 Power Architecture® cores operating at up to 800MHz
• DDR3/3L memory controller
• Open-PIC Interrupt Controller
• High-speed interconnects including NAND flash memory booting and a 16-bit extended local bus supporting USB 2.0 controllers; SPI serial flash memory booting; ULPI supporting PCI Express®; and host/device support via SPI controllers.
• Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA)
• Low power implementation through 45nm SOI process
• Power consumption of less than 5W
• 457-pin WB TePBGA 1, 19mm x 19mm package

P2040 Product Features
• Quad e500mc Power Architecture cores operating at up to 1.2GHz
• 1MB shared CoreNet platform cache (ECC supported)
• DDR3/3L SDRAM memory controller supporting operating speeds up to 1200MHz and ECC
• High-speed interconnect consisting of Serial RapidIO® (1.3 + 2.1) with 3 PCI Express®, Type 9/11 messaging, and 2 SATA 2.0 ports
• CoreNet Switch Fabric
5 Ethernet controllers
• Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA)
• Low power implementation through 45nm SOI process
• Power consumption of less than 8W
• 783-pin package, 23x23mm, 0.8mm pitch package

Development tools
Linux BSP, software development for product families A comprehensive hardware and software development kit is planned, including toolkits and CodeWarrior support technologies. Freescale plans to release a series of reference designs based on the new products in the first and second quarters of 2011.

Supply situation and prices
Samples of the P1023/17 are scheduled to be available in the first quarter of 2011, and alpha samples of the P2040 are planned for the first quarter of 2011. Further details regarding the P1023/1017 and P2040 communication processors can be found at www.freescale.com/qoriq .

QorIQ Information
The Freescale QorIQ communications platform is the next-generation evolution of the industry-leading Freescale PowerQUICC® communications processor. Developed based on high-performance Power Architecture® cores, the QorIQ platform supports next-generation network innovation where reliability, security, and QoS (Quality of Service) are critical in every connection.

Supportive comments from Freescale linked system members
Mathias Bath, General Manager of Marketing at Enea, said, "As a strategic alliance partner of Freescale, Enea is committed to the early delivery of the industry-leading Enea OSE real-time operating system for new Freescale QorlQ devices, including the attractive latest P1023/1017 and P2040 communications processors. Through close collaboration, Freescale and Enea will provide developers and system designers with highly integrated and optimized solutions to realize the potential of these latest processors."

Dan Mender, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Green Hills Software, stated, "Freescale's P1 and P2 level QorIQ