MPC8568EMDS: PowerQUICC III Modular Development System
The MPC8568E Modular Development System is designed for hardware and software developers using the MPC8568E PowerQUICC™ III family to accelerate development and testing, and improve time to market. The MPC8568E MDS enables:
Silicon bring-up/verification
Software/application development and support
Performance benchmarking
Customer evaluation
The MPC8568E MDS consists of multiple boards that provide a comprehensive development system—an MPC8568 processor board, a platform I/O board and several expansion modules, adding support for a TDM, ATM or PCI agent.
MPC8568E Processor Board
The MPC8568E Processor Board includes an MPC8568E processor running up to 1.33 GHz, along with circuitry to utilize the following:
4x Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and dual asynchronous receiver/transmitter (DUART)
PCI Express®
Peripheral component interconnect (PCI)
Serial RapidIO®
Double data rate (DDR) memory
Serial electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM)
Control switches and light emitting diode (LED) indicators
Platform I/O Board (PIB)
The Platform I/O Board is an enablement platform allowing the user to add additional PHY or other modules for evaluation with the processor board (PB):
Supports up to four PCI-based PMC form factor slots
PMC off-the-shelf modules can be connected to the PB via the PIB
The PIB is an AdvancedTCA® form factor for users who want to install it into an AdvancedTCA chassis
Serial RapidIO®
The PIB includes support for:
2x optical Gigabit Ethernet
8x MII 10/100 Base-T Fast Ethernet
Supports the MPC83xx PB and all PMC modules provided by Freescale