14 DAY TRIAL // This week, Freescale Semiconductor is showcasing its latest high-performance PowerPC(R) processor, MPC7448, which represents the most significant update to the MPC74xx family of processors to date.
The flexible MPC7448 processor brings new possibilities to pervasive computing applications by offering extensive compute efficiency combined with world-class power management. The MPC7448 also optimally addresses embedded networking applications, which are the bedrock of the PowerPC processor market.
The MPC7448 processor, based on Freescale's e600 PowerPC core, is expected to offer speeds from 600 MHz to 1.7 GHz with the system bus running up to 200 MHz. The MPC7448 is the first product in the MPC74xx family to use Freescale's 90 nanometer (nm) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS process, which significantly increases clock and bus speeds with substantial power reductions.
The cool MPC7448 offers GHz-class performance at less than 10 Watts -- highly advantageous for systems that require fanless operation. The MPC7448 power management features also include nap and sleep modes and introduce dynamic frequency switching that permits software to reduce power "on the fly."
The e600 PowerPC core includes AltiVec(TM) technology, a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) engine well-known for its ability to accelerate networking applications, such as security algorithms, network stack processing, routing and more. AltiVec technology is ideal for 2D and 3D graphics associated with video playback and recording, static imaging, gaming, Web browsing and e-commerce, including the implementation of CODEC (compression/decompression) algorithms.