Document Number: T4240PB
Rev 1, 10/2014
Freescale Semiconductor
Product Brief
T4240 Product Brief
Also supports T4160 and T4080
Contents
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Introduction............................... ............................... 1
Summary of benefits....................... ......................... 2
Application examples................... ............................ 3
Multicore processing options....................................7
Chip features.............................. ...............................9
Conclusion...............................................................38
T4160................................. .................................... 38
T4080................................. .................................... 40
Revision history...................................................... 41
1 Introduction
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The QorIQ T4 family of processors combine Freescale
advanced, dual-threaded e6500 Power Architecture®
processor cores with AltiVec, high-performance data path
acceleration architecture (DPAA), and network and peripheral
interfaces to address a wide variety of applications in
networking, telecom/datacom, data center, wireless
infrastructure, industrial and mil/aerospace applications.
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The T4 family consists of three devices:
• The T4240 QorIQ multicore processor combines 12
dual-threaded e6500 Power Architecture processor cores
for a total of 24 threads.
• The T4160 QorIQ multicore processor combines 8 dual-
threaded e6500 Power Architecture processor cores. For
more details on T4160 see Appendix T4160.
• The T4080 QorIQ multicore processor combines 4 dual-
threaded e6500 Power Architecture processor cores. For
more details on T4080 see Appendix T4080.
The T4 family has a 3x performance scaling factor within a
pin-compatible package. With frequencies scaling from 1.5 to
1.8 GHz, integrated 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet, hardware
acceleration, and advanced system peripherals, these products
target applications that benefit from consolidation of control
and data plane processing in a single chip, such as services
cards, microservers, NFV, SDN, ADCs, WOCs, and
intelligent NICs.
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