Datasheet

Developer Environment
MPC5566 Microcontroller Product Brief, Rev. 1
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• Fully software compatible with the FEC module of Freescale's industry standard PowerQUICC
communications controller
• Full compliance with the IEEE 802.3 standard for 10/100 base-T
• Support for different Ethernet physical interfaces:
•IEEE® 802.3 MII
• 10 Mbps seven-wire interface (industry standard)
• MII management interface for control and status
• Large on-chip transmit and receive FIFOs to support a variety of bus latencies
• Retransmission from the transmit FIFO after a collision
• Automatic internal flushing of the receive FIFO for runts and collisions
• External BD tables of user-definable size allow nearly unlimited flexibility in management of
transmit and receive buffer memory
• Address recognition for broadcast, single station address, promiscuous mode, and multicast
hashing
• Ethernet channel uses DMA burst transactions to transfer data to and from external/system
memory
3 Developer Environment
The MPC5500 family of MCUs supports similar tools and third party developers as other Power
Architecture products, offering a widespread, established network of tools and software vendors.
The following development support is available.
• Evaluation/development boards and systems
• Emulators, simulators, and probes
• Flash programmers
• IDE/tool chains
• C/C++ compilers
• Hardware and software debuggers
• Initialization/boot code generators
• Software libraries
• Device/module drivers
• C-header and equate files
• JTAG interfaces
• Code examples
• Third party real-time operating systems (RTOS)