NAMC-QorIQ-P4080

The NAMC-QorIQ-P4080 is a powerful packet processing engine based on the NXP QorIQ P4080 communications processor with 8x e500mc PowerPC cores, designed for packet-oriented telecom applications such as LTE or VoIP. It provides security and pattern-match engines, sophisticated buffer and queue management, and various high speed serial data links. These features make it ideally suited for combined control and dataplane processing, enabling high-performance Layer 2-7 processing.

Each of the PowerPC cores has its own load indicator LED at the front panel. The load indicators provide visual feedback of the current load balancing between the individual CPU cores.

The board is equipped with an on-board Real Time Clock and precision oscillator to support time keeping and time tracking for protocols such as RTP (Real Time Protocol) or PTP (Precision Time Protocol, IEEE 1588). The low jitter PLL allows telecom clocks to be derived from onboard sources and to be provided to the system by the MTCA clock distribution network.

• AMC form factor, single mid- or full-size

Processing Resources

• Freescale QorIQ P4080
  • 8 x e500mc PowerPC Cores @ 1.5 GHz (P4080)
  • Security Engine
  • Pattern Match Engine
  • Queue and Buffer Managers
  • Dual 64 bit Memory interfaces
  • 18 x Serdes (2 x XAUI, 3 x PCIe, 2 x SRIO, 8 x SGMII)
  • IP v4 forwarding : up to 20 Gbps or 18 Mpps (packets per sec)
  • IPsec Decap/Encap: up to 5 Mpps
• Lattice ECP3-17 FPGA
  • ITDM support
  • IEEE1588/RTP timestamp insertion / synchronization
  • PTP protocol acceleration
• Memory
  • 1-4 GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1333 MHz
  • 1-2 GB of NAND Flash

Front Panel Connectivity

• 1x GbE via RJ45
• 1x 10GbE XAUI via SFP+ (assembly option)
• USB
• RS232 (optional)
• LEDs
  • Standard AMC LEDs for hotswap and system health
  • 2/8 Load Indicator LEDs for CPU Cores
  • 4 Leds indicating GbE and SPF+ line states

Backplane Connectivity

• 2x GbE at AMC Ports 0/1
• 2x SATA at AMC Ports 2/3
• PCIe x4, SRIO x4, or XAUI x4 at AMC Ports 4-7 or 8-11
• iTDM Interface (optional)
• Optional: H.110 like backplane TSI bus

Operating System Support

• Linux, OK1-M