QorIQ™ - Multicore Communication Platforms

The new Freescale QorIQ™ platforms enable the next era of networking by offering new levels of performance, power-efficiency and programmability. They provide a coherent multicore migration solution that enables engineers to move to multicore with confidence when needed.

Built using one or more high-performance Power Architecture® cores, QorIQ platforms are system on chip (SoC) processors designed with networking applications in mind. They consist of single, dual and many cores - all based on Freescale's e500 Power Architecture technology.

The QorIQ communications platforms begin with the P1 and P2 platforms being available already: five package-, pin- and software-compatible processors designed to ease the transition from single- to dual-core processing. The QorIQ P4 platform, the signature member of the product line, will integrate eight enhanced Power Architecture cores, a tri-level cache hierarchy, innovative CoreNet™ on-chip fabric and datapath acceleration. All platforms are delivered at 45-nanometer (nm) geometries - offering exceptional performance at embedded power budgets