Motorola Launches Optimized Silicon Solutions for PowerQUICC™ Architecture

Extensive PowerQUICC Ecosystem Features Advanced Power Management, Timing and Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver Products

SMART NETWORKS DEVELOPER FORUM, PARIS - June 5, 2003 - Developing sophisticated networking and telecom applications based on the industry-leading PowerQUICC™ architecture just got easier. Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) today introduced high-performance power management, clock driver and Gigabit Ethernet transceiver integrated circuits (ICs) that are optimized for PowerQUICC communications processors containing the PowerPC™ core. Equipment manufacturers and designers developing PowerQUICC processor-based applications can now obtain complementary silicon solutions from the same company that pioneered the integrated communications processor--Motorola.

The PowerQUICC family of processors is the industry's most widely used communications processor architecture, with nearly 83 percent market share, according to a May 2003 Gartner Dataquest report. The PowerQUICC architecture is at the heart of the world's most sophisticated networking and telecommunications systems. PowerQUICC processors deliver integrated control and forwarding plane functionality for a wide range of customer premises equipment (CPE), access and edge applications, such as digital subscriber line (xDSL) gateways, small office-home office (SOHO) and enterprise routers, home networking equipment, wireless LAN (WLAN) access points, wireless base stations, DSL access multiplexers (DSLAMs), telecom switching and transmission devices, and T1/E1 termination equipment.

“Motorola is enabling a comprehensive PowerQUICC ecosystem that includes power supplies, clocks, and Gigabit Ethernet transceivers optimized for the world's foremost communications processor architecture,” said David Perkins, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola's Networking and Computing Systems Group. “The introduction of these Motorola ICs will help make it easier and more cost-efficient for networking and telecom equipment makers to acquire essential components from one trusted supplier for their PowerQUICC processor-based applications.”

QUICCsupply Power Management Products
Motorola offers three highly flexible power management ICs tuned to the voltage requirements of PowerQUICC processors. The MC33701, MC33702, and MC33703 QUICCsupply products are optimized, respectively, for the PowerQUICC I, PowerQUICC II™ and PowerQUICC III processor families. They are engineered to provide decentralized power supply functionality that matches each PowerQUICC processor's specifications for low voltage and high current from a local source.

QUICCsupply ICs provide a cost-effective alternative to using numerous discrete power management components or expensive power supply “bricks” to support a comparable level of functionality. Key product features include:

- Power sequencing (managing power-up/power-down for safe processor operation)

- Programmable output (through the I²C bus, enabling software adjustment of the output voltage)

- Reset and watchdog functions

In addition, the high level of integration offered by Motorola's QUICCsupply products enables manufacturers to save board space and reduce component count.

QUICCclock™ Timing Products
Motorola provides a full complement of timing solutions engineered to interface seamlessly with all processors, including the PowerQUICC family. Offering high performance and a wide range of functionality along with a successful family of redundant clock solutions, these products are designed to enhance system reliability required in next-generation embedded computing, storage, telecommunications and networking equipment. In addition to offering timing products for the widely used PowerQUICC I and PowerQUICC II processors, Motorola has introduced the QUICCclock family, an advanced timing solution optimized for next-generation PowerQUICC III processors with RapidIO™ interconnect technology.

The MPC9850 QUICCclock IC for the PowerQUICC III processor is a single-chip, phase-locked loop (PLL) based device that generates a microprocessor input clock for a range of frequencies and offers two differential LVDS outputs for a RapidIO interface. The high-performance MPC9850 clock is designed to support clock speeds up to 500 MHz for RapidIO technology, with programmable output frequencies ranging from 16 MHz to 250 MHz. The MPC9850 can be driven from a single 25 MHz crystal or a 25 MHz / 33 MHz reference frequency to generate eight low-voltage CMOS output clocks. The QUICCclock device combines the essential clock vector requirements to drive the PowerQUICC III processor into a single 100 MAPBGA package, helping to reduce board area requirements and improve system performance by minimizing noise and jitter.

SerDes High-Speed Data Interface Products
Motorola has enhanced its industry-leading portfolio of high-performance serializer/deserializer (SerDes) solutions with the introduction of the MC92603 Quad Gigabit Ethernet transceiver (GEt) and MC92604 Dual GEt. These 1.25 gigabaud, full-duplex GEt devices can be used to transmit data between ICs across a board, through a backplane, or through cabling, as well as to provide an interface to gigabit interface converter (GBIC) and small form-factor pluggable (SFP) modules. The MC92603 and MC92604 GEt products can be configured as 1.25 gigabaud backplane SerDes devices, or they can serve as gigabit media-independent interface (GMII), reduced GMII (RGMII) or ten-bit interface (TBI) physical-layer devices (PHYs) for Ethernet 1000base-X applications. The GEt devices are designed to be companion products for Motorola's PowerQUICC III processors, which also support Gigabit Ethernet and GMII/RGMII/TBI interfaces.

The MC92603 and MC92604 transceivers serve as two devices in one: The MC92603 can function as a quad GEt or a dual GEt with redundancy, and the MC92604 can function as a dual GEt or a single-channel GEt with redundancy. For many system designers, support for GEt redundancy is an attractive feature for high-performance PowerQUICC applications. Like their SerDes predecessors, the MC92603 and MC92604 devices are implemented in CMOS and are designed for low-power consumption, nominally consuming less than 1W with all links operating at full speed, resulting in system-level power savings for PowerQUICC processor-based applications.

Pricing and Availability
QUICCsupply samples for PowerQUICC I and PowerQUICC II processors are available now, and QUICCsupply samples for the PowerQUICC III processor are planned for Q4 2003. QUICCsupply 10K suggested resale pricing is $3.26 for the MC33701, $4.54 for the MC33702, and $6.39 for the MC33703.

QUICCclock samples are available now. The MPC9850 QUICCclock device is priced at $7.83 suggested resale in 10K quantities.

Samples of the MC92603 and MC92604 GEt devices are planned for fall 2003. The suggested resale pricing in 10K quantities is $20.50 for the MC92603 and $13 for the MC92604.

Motorola's MPC8540 and MPC8560 PowerQUICC III processors are sampling at alpha sites now, and additional sampling for early adopters is expected throughout the summer of 2003. General PowerQUICC III sampling is planned for Q4 2003.

About Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector
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About Motorola, Inc.
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