The T4240, with 24 virtual cores, is the flagship of the QorIQ® T series. With the T4160 (16 virtual cores) and T4080 (8 virtual cores), the T4 family has a 3x performance scaling factor within a pin-compatible package. Low-power variants are also available: T4241 (24 threads), T4161 (16 threads), and T4081 (8 threads).
With frequencies scaling to 1.8 GHz, integrated 1Gbps and 10Gpbs Ethernet, hardware acceleration and advanced system peripherals, these products target applications that benefit from consolidation of control and data plane processing in a single SoC, such as services cards, microservers, ADCs, WOCs, intelligent NICS, RNCs.
Feature
- Twelve dual-threaded e6500 cores built on Power Architecture® technology on T4240/T4241, each with one AltiVec® engine (eight and T4160/T4161 and four on T4080/T4081)
- Arranged as three clusters of four e6500s, each sharing a 2 MB L2 cache (two clusters on T4160/T4161 and one cluster on T4080/T4081).
- Up to 1.8 GHz with 64-bit ISA support (Power Architecture v2.06-compliant)
- Three levels of instruction: user, supervisor, and hypervisor
- 1.5 MB CoreNet® Platform Cache (1MB on T4160/T4161 and T4080/T4081)
- SerDes: 32 lanes (T4240/T4241) or 24 lanes (T4160/T4161 and T4080/T4081) at up to 10GHz
- Supports XAUI, XFI, 10Gbase-KR, QSGMII, SGMII, 2.5G SGMII, HiGig, HiGig2, Interlaken, PCIe, SRIO, and SATA
- Ethernet
- Up to 4x 10GE ports on XAUI, XFI, 10Gbase-KR, and HiGig (2x 10GE on T4160/T4161 and T4080/T4081)
- Supports up to 16x 1GE ports with SGMII, QSGMII, and RGMII (13 on T4160/T4161 and T4080/T4081).
- Packet parsing, classification and distribution up to 50Gb/s
- Data Center Bridging
- Interlaken-LA
- 4x PCIe, two at Gen2 and two at Gen3 (3x PCIe, one at Gen2 and two at Gen3 on T4160/T4161 and T4080/T4081)
- SR-IOV with two PF and 128 VF
- 2x Serial RapidIO, 5GHz
- Serial Rapid IO Message Manager for Type 8 - 11 messages.
- 2x Serial ATA (SATA2.0) controllers
- 3x 8-channel DMA engines
- Aurora high performance debug port
- Three 64-bit DDR3 and DDR3L SDRAM memory controller with ECC support, operating up to 1866MT/s (two controllers on T4160/T4161 and T4080/T4081)
- Hardware-based Cryptography acceleration (SEC5.0) to 40Gb/s
- Data compression/decompression engine (DCE1.0) to 20Gb/s
- Pattern Matching Engine (PME2.0) to 10Gb/s
- Enhanced secure digital host controller (SD/MMC/eMMC)
- Enhanced serial peripheral interface (SPI)
- 2 x USB controller (USB 2.0) with integrated PHY
- 4 x I²C controllers, 2 x DUARTs, timers
- Integrated flash controller (IFC) supporting NAND and NOR flash
- Trusted boot platform
- Advanced power management
