Integrated Communications Processor
MPC8536E PowerQUICC
®
III Processor
High-performance embedded computing
with advanced energy management
Overview
Revolutionary Evolution
The MPC8536E PowerQUICC
®
III integrated
communications processor is designed to
deliver gigahertz-class complex application
processing performance with exceptional
feature integration and high-speed
connectivity for IP network and advanced
media processing applications.
It combines a robust e500 processor core,
built on Power Architecture
®
technology,
with enhanced peripherals and interconnect
technology to balance processor performance
with I/O system throughput. Designed to
achieve clock speeds up to 1.5 GHz, the
MPC8536E processor includes advanced
power and energy management features that
enable developers to design next-generation
embedded Internet media processing
applications with energy efficiency levels
under the environmental and governmental
energy regulatory requirements.
Security
Acceleration
XOR
MPC8536E Block Diagram
e500 Core
32 KB
L1 I-Cache
32 KB
L1 D-Cache
Enhanced Local Bus
512 KB
L2 Cache
Advanced Power
Management
Controller
DDR2/DDR3
SDRAM Controller
Performance Monitor,
eSPI, DUART, 2 x I
2
C,
Timers, GPIO,
Interrupt Controller
On-Chip Network
PCI
PCI
Express
®
Express
PCI
Express
PCI
4-ch.
DMA
Coherency Module
eSDHC
System Bus
2 x Gigabit Ethernet
RGMII/MII
SGMII
2 x SATA
3 x USB
Host/Device
2-lane SerDes
Cores
8-lane SerDes
Highlights
High-Speed Connectivity
Freescale’s MPC8536E processor is
positioned to offer a wide range of high-
speed connectivity options. The flexibility
of the processor is due to highly integrated
speed- and latency-optimized technology.
It is a highly scalable processor designed to
handle complex, computationally demanding
processing tasks with ease. The MPC8536E
processor includes enhanced three-speed
Ethernet with TCP/UDP/IP offload, direct FIFO
mode for ASIC connectivity and support for
multiple PCI Express
®
interface options. It also
provides connectivity solutions for interfacing
modern high-speed ASICs. Moreover, the
MPC8536E processor features a field-proven,
next-generation memory controller and an
optional hardware acceleration engine for
encryption protocols.
Advanced Energy-Efficient Modes
Balancing the performance requirements
for powerful new networking- and Internet-
centric applications, with the increasing
concerns over energy consumption, is driving
manufacturers to develop intelligent strategies
for optimizing performance within specific
energy budgets. This is a key challenge for
the next generation of embedded systems.
The MPC8536E processor implements
sophisticated power-saving modes for
managing energy consumption in both
dynamic and static power modes. These
include the traditional nap, doze and sleep
plus the new jog (dynamic frequency scaling)
and packet-lossless deep sleep. Designers
will be able to leverage these modes to
efficiently match work accomplished with the
correct level of energy consumed.
System-Level Cost Savings
The MPC8536E processor’s highly integrated
architecture is designed to enhance
performance and deliver system-level cost
savings in a small-board footprint. Key
system-level peripherals include dual Gigabit
Ethernet, triple USB 2.0, dual SATA, SD/MMC,
triple PCI Express, PCI, enhanced local bus,
dual I
2
C, SPI and DUART. Special care was
taken to design the MPC8536E processor’s
pin locations for mounting on low-cost six-
layer PCBs. The MPC8536E is a full-featured,
high-performance, low-power processor that
is designed to support fanless operation for
power-sensitive applications.
Applications
The combination of these features makes
the MPC8536E processor an optimal
embedded processing solution for Ethernet
or PCI Express interworking applications,
such as enterprise networking, storage
and multifunction printer (MFP) imaging
applications. The device is ideal for
connecting high-speed DDR memory
interfaces and peripherals in high-
performance systems. Examples include
control plane processing, protocol processing
and other compute-intensive applications
requiring high-speed communications with a
low pin count.
• Enhanced hardware and software
debug support
• Optional integrated security engine
supporting DES, 3DES, MD-5, SHA-1/2,
AES, RSA, RNG, Kasumi F8/F9 and ARC-4
encryption algorithms (indicated by an E in
the device number)
• Double-precision embedded scalar and
vector floating-point APUs
• 64-/32-bit DDR2/DDR3 memory controller
scaling to 667 MHz data rate
• 3 x PCI Express high-speed interconnect
interfaces
• 32-bit PCI interface
• Integrated four-channel DMA controller
• On-chip network (OCeaN) switch fabric
• Advanced power management controller
• 2 x I
2
C
• Dual universal asynchronous receiver/
transmitters (DUART)
• eSPI and enhanced local bus
• General-purpose input/output (GPIO)
• Programmable interrupt controller (PIC)
• 2 x Gigabit Ethernet with SGMII support
and TCP/UDP/IP offload
• 3 x USB host/device interfaces
• 2 x SATA
• SD/MMC removable card interfaces
• IEEE
®
1588 support
• 783-pin FC-PBGA package
• Operating temperature range:
0ºC T
A
(ambient temp) to +90ºC T
J
(junction temp)
0ºC T
A
to +105ºC T
J
-40ºC T
A
to +105ºC T
J
Development Support
• MPC8536DS development system
• MPC8536RDK low-cost reference design kit
using COM Express module
• MPC8536RD low-cost digital signage media
player reference design kit using COM
Express module
• CodeWarrior™ V8.8.3
• Linux
®
BSP
• Wind River VxWorks
®
RTOS
• MontaVista Linux Professional Edition
• Green Hills Integrity
®
RTOS
• QNX
®
Neutrino
®
RTOS
Key Features
• e500 core, built on Power Architecture
technology
Dual dispatch superscalar, seven-stage
pipeline design with out-of-order issue
and execution
3450 DMIPS at 1.5 GHz
36-bit physical addressing
• Integrated L1/L2 cache
L1 cache—32 KB data cache and 32
KB instruction cache with line-locking
support
L2 cache—512 KB (8-way set
associative), 256/128/64/32 KB can be
used as SRAM, L1 and L2 hardware
coherency, I/O transactions can be
stashed into L2 cache regions
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