ARTESYN: PROCESSORPMC PROTOCOL AND PACKET PROCESSING ENGINE
12 October 2005 - Artesyn Technologies

Artesyn announced the Pm8540, a new ProcessorPMC protocol and packet processing engine for telecom infrastructure applications. Based on the MPC8540 PowerQUICC III communications processor from Freescale Semiconductor, the Pm8540 gives telecom OEMs a simple way to add protocol processing and system management capability to telecom systems equipped with PMC or PCI Telephony Mezzanine Card expansion slots, including Artesyn's own Katana AdvancedTCA and PICMG 2.16 blades.

The Pm8540 features two Gigabit 10/ 100/ 1000BaseT Ethernet ports, which are routed to the PMC connector, and one 10/ 100BaseTX Ethernet port, which is routed to the module's front bezel. The Pm8540 also features up to 512 MB of SDRAM, 32 MB of flash memory, an I2C bus system management controller, and a four-channel DMA controller, which boosts overall performance by facilitating high-speed data movement between module resources without CPU intervention.

Freescale's MPC8540 PowerQUICC III processor provides the compute and protocol acceleration engine for the Pm8540. The MPC8540's PowerPC e500 core delivers a peak performance of 2310 MIPS at 1 GHz. The MPC8540 also features 256 KB of L2 cache, a DDR SDRAM memory controller, two Gigabit 10/ 100/ 1000BaseT Ethernet controllers, a 10/ 100 Ethernet controller, a 64-bit PCI/PCI-X controller operating at speeds of up to 133 MHz, a parallel RapidIO controller, and the OCeaN non-blocking crossbar switch fabric.

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