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New PowerQuicc, PowerPC members use 90-nm process
Colorado Springs, Colo. - Freescale Semiconductor Inc. will show architectures for seven new PowerPC and PowerQuicc devices at an upcoming conference in Frankfurt, Germany. The processors share a common design methodology and are all produced in a 90-nanometer SOI process technology, which Freescale is applying to the eSOO and e600 PowerPC cores at the heart of some of the new devices.
Freescale will show its first dual-core PowerPC this week at the Smart Networks Developer Forum Europe. The PowerPC will integrate a system controller and interface bus borrowed from the company's earlier PowerQuicc families. In fact, the new dual-core MPC8641D and single-core MPC8641 will use the same internal buses and peripherals leveraged from PowerQuicc, but the former device will use dual e600 cores that can be employed in either symmetric- or asymmetric-multiprocessing domains.
In the PowerQuicc III family, four new processors will be shown that employ the same internal MPX bus used in the dual-core PowerPC: the MPC8548E, for telecorn and networking applications; the MPC8547E, for...