The PowerPC e6500 is a
multithreaded 64-bit Power ISA-based
microprocessor
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core from
Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. was an American semiconductor manufacturer. It was created by the divestiture of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola in 2004. Freescale focused their integrated circuit products on the automotive, embe ...
(now part of
NXP). e6500 will power the entire range of
QorIQ AMP Series system on a chip
A system on a chip or system-on-chip (SoC ; pl. ''SoCs'' ) is an integrated circuit that integrates most or all components of a computer or other electronic system. These components almost always include a central processing unit (CPU), memor ...
(SoC) processors which share the common naming scheme: "Txxxx". Hard samples, manufactured on a 28 nm process, available in early 2012 with full production later in 2012.
Design
It has a revised memory subsystem compared to the previous
e5500 core with four cores combined into a CPU Cluster, sharing a large L2 cache and the e6500 cores supports up to eight CPU Clusters for very large multiprocessing implementations. The core is the first multithreaded core designed by Freescale and reintroduces an enhanced version of
AltiVec to their products. The multithreading allows for two virtual cores per hard core and is organized as 2x2-way superscalar. One virtual core in an e6500 can often perform better than an entire e5500 core since Freescale essentially duplicated a lot of logic instead of just virtualizing it, in addition to other enhancements to the core.
Each core has five integer units (four simple and one complex), two load-store units, one
128-bit
While there are currently no mainstream general-purpose processors built to operate on 128-bit ''integers'' or addresses, a number of processors do have specialized ways to operate on 128-bit chunks of data.
Representation
128-bit processors co ...
AltiVec unit, 32+32 kB instruction and data L1 caches. Speeds range up to 2.5 GHz, and the core is designed to be highly configurable via the CoreNet fabric and meet the specific needs of
embedded applications with features like
multi-core operation and interface for auxiliary application processing units (APU).
e6501
The e6501 core is a revision introduced in 2013 with enhanced virtualization interrupt support.
Products
*
QorIQ AMP Series T4240 as the first processor revealed with 12 cores followed by T2080 and T2081 with four cores and speeds up to 1.8 GHz.
* QorIQ Qonverge B4420 and B4860
QorIQ Qonverge B4860 Baseband SoC
/ref> - with a mix of e6500 cores and StarCore SC3900 DSPs for high end telecom applications such as 4G/LTE
LTE may refer to:
Science and technology
* LTE (telecommunication) (Long-Term Evolution), a telephone and mobile broadband standard
** LTE Advanced, an enhancement
*** LTE Advanced Pro
* Compaq LTE, a line of laptop computers produced by Compaq
* ...
macrocells running at 1.6 and 1.8 GHz.
See also
* QorIQ
QorIQ is a brand of ARM-based and Power ISA-based communications microprocessors from NXP Semiconductors (formerly Freescale). It is the evolutionary step from the PowerQUICC platform, and initial products were built around one or more e50 ...
* PowerPC e5500
powerpc-notebook.org homepage
— The project to create a laptop based on the NXP QorIQ T2080, a PowerPC e6500 based processor
References
Freescale Drives Embedded Multicore Innovation with New QorIQ Advanced Multiprocessing Series
QorIQ Communications Platforms
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