MSC8144ADS Freescale, MSC8144ADS Datasheet - Page 7

• Manufacturer Part Number: MSC8144ADS
• Manufacturer: Freescale

Specifications of MSC8144ADS

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General Information
This document describes the MSC8144ADS processor board. The MSC8144ADS processor
board is an application development system (ADS) that provides a complete debugging
environment for engineers developing applications for the Freescale MSC8144 DSP family.The
MSC8144ADS processor board is intended to serve as a platform for software and hardware
development in the MSC8144 processor environment. On-board resources and the associated
debugger enable developers to perform a variety of tasks: download and run code, set
breakpoints, display memory and registers, and connect proprietary h/w via the expansion
connector. This board answers the development needs of three different infrastructure
applications: wireless transcoding, IP telephony, and video transcoding. It can also be used as a
demonstration tool for these types of applications, and for control processing in applications such
as network routers and switches, mass storage subsystems, network appliances, and print and
imaging systems.
The MSC8144 device is a highly integrated DSP processor that contains four StarCore SC3400
DSP subsystems, 512 Kbyte of M2 shared memory, 10 Mbyte of M3 shared memory, L1
instruction and data caches optimized for packet telephony, 128 Kbyte of shared L2 instruction
cache, a DDR memory controller, a serial RapidIO® interface, two 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet
controllers, an ATM Controller Supporting various ATM adaptation layers, eight 512-channel
time-division multiplexing (TDM) interfaces, a 16-channel DMA controller, 32-bit PCI interface
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that runs at 66/33MHz, a UART interface, and an I
C interface.
The MSC8144ADS processor board is based on the 64-bit MSC8144 as a slave processor
controlled from an MPC8560 host processor via a PCI bus or GETH switch. However, the board
can be configured to bypass the host in certain situations. In addition, the board can function in a
standalone configuration or as an AMC card in the ATCA system. The ADS board uses a triple
AMC form factor.
1.1 Working Configurations
The MSC8144ADS has two basic operating modes, as discussed in the following sections. In
addition to the basic modes, there are two debugging chain options that can be used with either
operating mode.
MSC8144ADS Reference Manual, Rev. 0
Freescale Semiconductor
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