QorIQ Communications Platforms
QorIQ P2010 and
P2020 Processors
Overview
The QorIQ mid-performance tier, which
The P2020 and P2010 processors have an
Target Applications
includes the P2020 (dual-core processor) and
advanced set of features for ease of use. The
P2010 (single-core processor) communications
optional integrated security engine supports
The P2010 and P2020 processors serve in a
processors, delivers high single-threaded
the cryptographic algorithms commonly used
performance per watt for a wide variety of
in IPsec, SSL, 3GPP and other networking
applications in the networking, telecom,
and wireless security protocols. The 64-bit
military and industrial markets. These
memory controller offers future proofing against
P2 devices deliver dual- and single-core
memory technology migration with support for
frequencies up to 1.2 GHz on a 45 nm
both DDR2 and DDR3. It also supports error
technology low-power platform.
correction codes, a baseline requirement for
The QorIQ P2020 and P2010 dual- and
single-core products are pin compatible with
the QorIQ P1 family devices in the value-
any high-reliability system. Other memory types
such as flash are supported through the 16-bit
local bus, USB, SD/MMC and SPI.
wide range of applications, notably those with
tight thermal constraints. With an available
junction temperature range of –40 °C to
+125 °C, the devices can be used in
power-sensitive defense, aerospace and
industrial applications, and less protected
outdoor environments. They enable various
combinations of data plane and control
plane workloads in networking and telecom
applications that require higher performance
but want to avoid the complexity of partitioning
performance tier, offering four interchangeable
The P2010 and P2020 processors integrate a
the application across many cores. The
cost-effective solutions. Scaling from a single-
rich set of interfaces, including SerDes, Gigabit
devices’ primary target applications are
core processor at 533 MHz (P1011) to a dual-
Ethernet, PCI Express , RapidIO technology
networking and telecom linecards. The P2
core processor at 1.2 GHz (P2020), the two
and USB. The three 10/100/1000 Ethernet
devices, with their low power budget and high
tiers of devices together deliver an impressive
ports support advanced packet parsing, flow
single-threaded performance, are uniquely well-
4.5x aggregate frequency range within the
control and quality of service features, as well
suited for control plane applications.
same pinout.
as IEEE 1588 time stamping.
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The P2010 and P2020 devices are software
compatible, sharing the e500 Power
Architecture® core and peripherals, as well
QorIQ P1 and P2 Family Comparison Chart
as being fully software compatible with the
Device Cores Top Core L2
Frequency Size
DDR 2/3
Support
GE
SerDes PCI
Serial
TDM
Ports
Express® RapidIO®
existing PowerQUICC processors. This enables
P1011
1
800 MHz
256 KB 32-bit with ECC 3
4
2
N/A
Yes
customers to create a product with multiple
P1020
2
800 MHz
256 KB 32-bit with ECC 3
4
2
N/A
Yes
performance points from a single board
P2010
1
1200 MHz
512 KB 64-bit with ECC 3
4
3
2
N/A
design. The P2020 and P1020 dual-core
P2020
2
1200 MHz
512 KB 64-bit with ECC 3
4
3
2
N/A
processors support symmetric and asymmetric
multiprocessing, enabling customers to scale
performance through either thread-level or
QorIQ
P2020/P2010
Communication
Processors
QorIQ P2020/P2010
Communication
Processors
application-level parallelism.
Power Architecture®
e500-v2 Core
32 KB
D Cache
2x USB 2.0
512 KB
Frontside
Cache
32 KB
I Cache
64/32-bit
DDR2/3
Memory Controller
P2010–Single Core Only
eLBC
Coherent System Bus
TDM
SD/MMC
DUART
Security
3.3
2x I2C
SRIO
1 GE
SPI, GPIO
1 GE
SRIO
PCIe
PCle
4-Lane 2.5/3 GHz SerDes
Core Complex (CPU and L2 Cache)
Basic Peripherals and Interconnect
Accelerators and Memory Control
Networking Elements
DMA
1 GE
PCIe
Control plane applications tend to be more
Technical Specifications
• Serial peripheral interface
sequential in nature and thus lose scaling
• Dual (P2020) or single (P2010) high-
• Integrated security engine (SEC 3.1)
efficiency with increasing number of threads or
performance Power Architecture
cores. Both P2 devices, with their low power,
e500 cores
efficient dual-issue out-of-order e500 core,
Power Architecture technology and high 1.2
GHz frequency, offer a level of single-threaded
performance that is suitable for control plane
applications.
The networking linecard requires an optimal
combination of good performance to manage
a large amount of control plane traffic balanced
3DES, AES, RSA/ECC, MD5/SHA,
Double-precision floating-point support
ARC4, Kasumi, Snow 3G and FIPS
32 KB L1 instruction cache and 32 KB
L1 data cache for each core
800 MHz to 1.2 GHz clock frequency
• 512 KB L2 cache with ECC. Also
configurable as SRAM and stashing
I/O, flexible core configurations and an
memory.
processors are well-suited for this application,
which involves controlling ASICs, managing
exceptions and routing table maintenance.
Crypto algorithm support includes
36-bit physical addressing
against low power and cost. With convenient
onboard security block, the P2010 and P2020
(optional)
• Three 10/100/1000 Mb/s enhanced threespeed Ethernet controllers
TCP/IP acceleration and
deterministic RNG
Single pass encryption/message
authentication for common security
protocols (IPsec, SSL, SRTP, WiMAX)
XOR acceleration
• 64-bit DDR2/DDR3 SDRAM memory
controller with ECC support
• Programmable interrupt controller compliant
with OpenPIC standard
classification capabilities
• Two four-channel DMA controllers
well-suited for LTE and WiMAX channel card
IEEE 1588 support
• Two I2C controllers, DUART, timers
applications. With dual-core performance in
Lossless flow control
• Enhanced local bus controller
R/G/MII, R/TBI, SGMII
• 16 general-purpose I/O signals
FIFO interfaces
• Package: 689-pin wirebond power-BGA
The P2010 and P2020 processors are also
single-core power budgets, the P2 devices
facilitate the “flattening” of the wireless
network hierarchy. The dual Serial RapidIO
interfaces allow direct connection to the DSPs
(such as the MSC8156 DSP) that implement
layer 1 processing as well as redundant
backplane connections.
• High-speed interfaces supporting various
multiplexing options
Four SerDes to 3.125 GHz multiplexed
across controllers
Three PCI Express interfaces
Two Serial RapidIO interfaces
Two SGMII interfaces
• High-Speed USB controller (USB 2.0)
(TEPBGA2)
Software and Tools Support
• Enea®: Real-time operating system support
• Green Hills®: Complete portfolio of software
and hardware development tools, trace
tools and real-time operating systems
• Mentor Graphics®: Commercial-grade
Linux® solution
• P2020 development system, P2020
Host and device support
reference design board and P2020 COM
Enhanced host controller interface
Express development board
ULPI interface to PHY
• Enhanced secure digital host controller
(SD/MMC)
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