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User Guide
COMe-bP5020
1 Introduction
1.1 COMe-bP5020 Overview
The COMe-bP5020 is a COM Express® form factor compliant Power Architecture® processor module based on the Freescale™
QorIQ™ 64-bit P5020 processor.
Designed in the COM Express® basic (95 mm x 125 mm) form factor the module incorporates the Freescale™ QorIQ™ P5020 dual-
core Power Architecture® processor operating at 2.0 GHz - other processor versions (P5010 and P3041) and operating speeds
are available on request. Featuring 64-bit technology, it integrates up to 8 GByte of soldered DDR3 SDRAM at 1300 MHz and
ECC support. Two additional MBytes of shared third level cache facilitate core-to-core communications to minimize accesses to
main memory.
Up to 2 GB of NAND Flash as well as a socket for a MicroSD card provide flexible and reliable storage space for application data. In
terms of I/Os, the module interfaces the QorIQ-specific I/Os to the carrier board. In addition to USB 2.0 ports there are also UART
(TxD, RxD, RTC and CTS) and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.
Flexible interface support is guaranteed by 18 SERDES lanes, which can be configured according to application-specific needs.
A comprehensive range of different combinations, for example as PCIe x4, sRIO x4, Serial Gigabit Media Independent Interface
(SGMII), XAUI and SATA interfaces is available.
The COMe-bP5020 with its innovative Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA) assures that even heavy network traffic does
not affect the processing performance of the cores. With DPAA the cores are relieved of the common packet-handling tasks,
which leaves more headroom for the relevant processing even at full load.
The COMe-bP5020 targets high-bandwidth telecommunication and data processing applications. With its long-term availability
of more than 10 years, it is also a very good choice for use in long life cycle network applications in the medical, military and
transportation markets.
