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The MPC8308 is a cost-effective, lowpower, highly integrated PowerQUICC® II Pro processor designed to address the requirements of networking applications such as smart grid home energy gateways, data concentrators, wireless LAN access points, wireless femto base stations and industrial applications such as industrial control and factory automation.

It extends the PowerQUICC II Pro family by balancing the higher MIPS/MHz performance provided by the e300 core with low power consumption at a very aggressive price.

For networking applications, the Gigabit Ethernet MACs support connectivity to the wired network while the PCI Express® and SDIO interfaces can offer connectivity to wireless LAN or 3G and 4G modem devices. The MPC8308 processor features integrated IEEE® 1588 time synchronization for applications such as time-sensitive telecommunications services, industrial network switches, powerline networks and test/measurement devices. All of these applications will be fully enabled with the MPC8308 processor and the low-cost evaluation board with optimized Linux® BSP and drivers. Freescale also works with thirdparty partners to enable application software for end user interfaces.

• e300 (MPC603e-based) core, which includes 16 kBytes of L1 instruction and data caches, a floating point unit, and performance monitor
• Single PCI Express x1 controller with integrated SerDes PHY
• Dual three-speed 10, 100, 1000 Mbps Ethernet controllers (eTSEC)
• 32/16-bit DDR2 memory controller
• Secure digital Host controller (SDHC) interface
• USB 2.0 host and device controller
• Flexible enhanced local bus controller (eLBC)
• Integrated programmable interrupt controller (IPIC)
• General Purpose DMA controller
• Single I2C controller
• Serial peripheral interface (SPI) controller with master and slave support
• General-purpose I/O (GPIO) port with 24 parallel I/O pins muxed on various interfaces
• System timers including a periodic interrupt timer, real-time clock, software watchdog timer, and four general-purpose timers
• Dual UART (DUART)
• Designed to comply with IEEE Std 1149.1™, JTAG boundary scan
• 473 MAPBGA package

• Wireless LAN access point
• Consumer printing
• Smart metering energy gateway
• Industrial control
• Test and measurement