Information
MPC8308 Product Brief PowerQUICC
™
II Pro Processor, Rev. 0
Features
Freescale Semiconductor8
• Designed to comply with IEEE Std 1149.1™, JTAG boundary scan
• 473 MAPBGA package
2.3 Module Features
The PowerQUICC II Pro MPC8308 is a high-performance, power-saving, highly integrated host processor
solution.
2.3.1 e300 Core
The e300 core has the following features:
• Operates at up to 333 MHz
• 16-Kbyte instruction cache, 16-Kbyte data cache with ECC
• Floating point unit
• Software-compatible with the Freescale processor families implementing the Power
Architecture™
• Performance monitor
2.3.2 Single PCI Express Interface
The PCI Express interface has the following features:
• PCI Express 1.0a-compatible
• x1 link width
• Selectable operation as root complex or endpoint
• Both 32- and 64-bit addressing
• 128-byte maximum payload size
• Support for MSI and INTx interrupt messages
• Virtual channel 0 only
• Selectable Traffic Class
• Full 64-bit decode with 32-bit wide windows
• Dedicated descriptor-based DMA engine per interface with separate read and write channels
2.3.3 Dual Enhanced Three-Speed Ethernet Controllers (eTSECs)
The MPC8308 eTSECs include the following features:
• Designed to comply with IEEE Std 802.3™, 802.3u™, 820.3x™, 802.3z™, 802.3ab™,
802.3ac™, and IEEE 1588
• Support for different Ethernet physical interfaces:
— 1000 Mbps IEEE 802.3 RGMII, full-duplex
— 10/100 Mbps IEEE 802.3 MII full and half-duplex
— 10/100 Mbps IEEE 802.3 RMII full and half-duplex