News
- Titlee2v Introduces the PC7448 Microprocessor For Extended-Reliability Applications
- Date10 October 2006
e2v announced today the availability of the PC7448 microprocessor, the extended-reliability version of the MPC7448 from Freescale Semiconductor. This high-performance, low-power, 32-bit RISC implementation of the PowerTM Architecture is the latest and fastest high-reliability device born of the long and productive collaboration between e2v and Freescale Semiconductor.
The PC7448 microprocessor targets massive data processing embedded applications, such as radars and graphic displays, where reliability over severe environmental conditions is a key success factor.
Manufactured on Freescale Semiconductor's 90nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS process technology, the PC7448 microprocessor can operate at up to 1250MHz in a military junction temperature range of -55 degree Celsius to +125 degree Celsius. With world-class power efficiency, the PC7448 shows a power dissipation of 10 watts at 1250 MHz, while the low-power version of the PC7448 is also available at 1000 MHz with a power dissipation of 9.5 watts. Additionally, dynamic on-chip power management features help to significantly reduce power consumption when the device's full processing capabilities are not required.
'The PC7448 microprocessor is another corner stone of e2v's extended-reliability processors roadmap, bringing more performance to the system designer without jeopardizing its power budget. The PC7448 is also paving the way toward the PC8641D dual-core integrated processor that is using the same e600 core', said Eric Marcelot, e2v's Hi-Rel Microprocessors Marketing Manager. 'The defense electronics industry will like the PC7448 microprocessor's backward compatibility with existing designs currently using the PC7xx (G3) or PC74xx (G4), thus enabling users to upgrade their application with minimal hardware and software redesign and qualification. The PC7448 used in conjunction with the PC109 host bridge will deliver our customers higher optimized design for high performance applications while reducing the overall system costs'.
The PC7448 features a 1-Mbyte on-chip secondary level (L2) cache memory, full symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support, a 64-bit bus interface as well as full implementation of Freescale's AltiVecTM vector processing technology. The PC7448 microprocessor is now available for sampling in both industrial and military temperature ranges, and production ramp-up is scheduled during the fourth quarter of 2006.