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Motorola PowerPC™ Processor Delivers
New Power Management Features, Higher
Performance
Low-Power,
Gigahertz-Class Version of MPC7447A Processor Containing a PowerPC Core Consumes
Less Than 10W, Provides Optimal Solution for Power-Sensitive Embedded
Designs
AUSTIN, Texas – Feb. 23, 2004
-- System developers can rev up the performance of their embedded applications
while staying within tight power budgets by using the MPC7447A processor from
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT). This high-performance, power-efficient 32-bit RISC
device, operating in excess of 1.4GHz, is the latest and fastest member of the
MPC74xx PowerPC processor family.
The MPC7447A
offers developers on-chip power management features, such as the ability to
change clock frequencies dynamically. This capability enables users to change
CPU clock speed on the fly and significantly reduce processor power consumption
to match performance with application requirements. The MPC7447A processor also
contains a temperature sensing diode that can be used to monitor die temperature
under various operating conditions.
MPC7447A
processors are manufactured in Austin, Texas, on Motorola’s 130nm HiPerMOS
silicon-on-insulator (SOI) copper interconnect process technology, which is
designed to enable superior performance and excellent low power capability. When
operating at 1.42GHz, the MPC7447A has a typical power consumption of less than
20W. A lower-power version of the MPC7447A, consuming less than 10W at 1167MHz,
is available for power-sensitive applications that require gigahertz-class
performance.
"There seems to be a fundamental
shift in how CPUs are used outside the ordinary server and PC markets," said
Eric M. Mantion, senior analyst with In-Stat/MDR. "For system design concepts
such as grid computing or embedded computing, developers don't just care about
raw computational abilities, but rather the ratio of performance capabilities to
power consumption. This new flops-per-Watt metric becomes critical for advanced
networking equipment used to handle terabits of data, or for paradigm-shifting
computational platforms like Mercury Computer Systems’ PowerStream 7000.
When developing a system that can perform teraflops of calculations in a
refrigerator-size form factor, it is difficult to do this at 100 Watts per CPU.
Due to its exceptional performance per wattage ratio, we can expect to see
Motorola's MPC7447A PowerPC processor used in a wide number of embedded
applications over the next few years."
The
MPC7447A offers exceptional price/performance and is an optimal processor
solution for a wide range of embedded applications, such as network control
plane processing, telecommunications switching, signal processing, high-end
printers, and state-of-the art military, healthcare monitoring, and industrial
imaging systems.
"Motorola's MPC7447A processor
enables Mercury to develop higher-performance products for commercial
applications such as semiconductor inspection, while preserving our
customers’ application investment," said Richard Jaenicke, director of
product management at Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. "In defense electronics,
the MPC7447A makes it possible to phase into production a backward-compatible
upgrade that provides increased performance per Watt, which is critical to
airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
applications."
At the heart of the MPC7447A is
a high-speed superscalar PowerPC core that is capable of issuing four
instructions per clock cycle (three instructions + branch) into eleven
independent execution units. Additional architectural features that distinguish
the MPC7447A include 512KB of on-chip L2 cache, full symmetric multiprocessing
(SMP) support, a 64-bit bus interface, and a full 128-bit implementation of
Motorola’s AltiVec™ Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) vector
processing technology.
AltiVec technology is
designed to deliver exceptional compute power for controller and signal
processing applications. With its vector execution unit, AltiVec technology
supports high-bandwidth data processing and computationally intensive
algorithms, such as those used in high-end routers and wireless basestations.
This advanced approach allows designers to leverage existing PowerPC code and
add AltiVec performance as market and customer requirements change--helping
speed time to market and increase system performance without upgrading hardware.
AltiVec code libraries are available at www.motorola.com/altivec.
MPC7447A
processors are pin-for-pin compatible with Motorola’s MPC7445 and MPC7447
processors. This pin-compatible migration path helps customers reduce their
development costs, accelerates time to market, and ensures software
compatibility.
Like all Motorola processors
containing PowerPC cores, the MPC7447A is software compatible with the MPC7xx
family of processors from Motorola. The MPC7447A is available in a 360-pin
ceramic ball grid array (CBGA) package, an ideal choice for space-constrained
designs requiring a smaller embedded CPU
footprint.
As with other Motorola processors
containing PowerPC cores, the MPC7447A is supported by an extensive suite of
software and hardware development tools from Metrowerks, a Motorola company, and
from third-party members of Motorola's Smart Networks
Alliance.
High Scores on EEMBC®
Benchmarks
Motorola has measured the
performance of the 1.42GHz MPC7447A processor in five different application
areas using the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium's (EEMBC)
benchmarks. The resulting scores as certified by the EEMBC Certification Labs
(ECL) are shown below for the out-of-the-box ANSI C code provided by EEMBC and
for the networking and telecommunications benchmarks optimized per EEMBC rules
using AltiVec technology. The optimized benchmarks demonstrate the potential
performance improvement that is possible through innovative software techniques
that take advantage of AltiVec technology.
The
1.42GHz MPC7447A achieved the following benchmark scores in EEMBC's five
application areas:
- Automotive/Industrial:
1564.1
- Consumer:
197.2
- Networking: 46.7 (135.0 when optimized with
AltiVec technology)
- Telecommunications: 41.4
(500.6 when optimized with AltiVec technology)
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Office Automation: 1793.8
Pricing and
Availability
Initial samples of the MPC7447A
PowerPC processor are available today to selected customers. Suggested retail
pricing for the MPC7447A at 1.42 GHz is $245 (USD) in quantities of
10,000.
About
Motorola
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) is a global
leader in wireless, broadband and automotive communications technologies that
help make life smarter, safer, simpler, synchronized and fun. Sales in 2003 were
U.S. $27.1 billion. Motorola creates innovative technological solutions that
benefit people at home, at work and on the move. The company also is a
progressive corporate citizen dedicated to operating ethically, protecting the
environment and supporting the communities in which it does business. For more
information: www.motorola.com.
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