AMCC boost performances, low power PowerPC 440 core with advanced peripheral set: the new PowerPC 460GT
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AMCC has announced the PowerPC 460GT, it features a SoC platform based on the Power Architecture standard that delivers clock speeds exceeding 1 GHz, along with increased memory interface performance, advanced connectivity, reduced power dissipation, security processing acceleration and a smaller form factor. The PPC460GT is instruction-set compatible with all other AMCC Power Architecture products, and applications can be easily migrated from both AMCC processors and those of other Power Architecture vendors in order to deliver upgraded performance and functionality to product designers and engineers.
Applications
With speeds of up to 1.2 GHz, support for Serial RapidIO, PCI-Express, Gigabit Ethernet MACs, security, NAND Flash interfaces and low power dissipation, the PowerPC 460GT embedded processor is ideally suited to a wide range of high-performance applications, including networking and storage like:
- Wireless infrastructure
- Enterprise network equipment
- Control plane applications
Development tools and PowerPC ecosystem
The PowerPC embedded processors are supported by AMCC and hundreds of partners through the PowerPC embedded tools program which includes development boards, debuggers, compilers, operating systems etc.
The AMCC PPC460GT evaluation kit will include the evaluation board, bootloader, Linux OS porting and application software at a very convenient price.
Features
- Delivers 667 MHz to 1.2 GHz performance(CPU)
- 32-Kbyte Instruction and Data Caches
- 256-Kbyte L2 Cache with parity protection, may also be used as on-chip SRAM
- 64-Kbyte On Chip Memory
- DDR1/2-400 memory support
- Two PCI-Express interfaces
- Four GE MACs, three with SGMII
- Serial RapidIO interface
- NAND Flash support
- Extensive connectivity by means of on-chip Ethernet, UARTs, IIC, SPI and PCI
- Offers low power dissipation and small form factor for high-density and power-conscious applications