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News Release from: Freescale Semiconductor
Subject: MPC5500
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 22 October 2001

400MHz core to boost future MCU generation

Motorola has announced plans to introduce a new microcontroller family based on the Book E and PowerPC compliant e500 core.

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Motorola has announced plans to introduce a new microcontroller family based on the Book E and PowerPC compliant e500 core. An evolution of the MPC500 architecture, the new MPC5500 architecture is designed to power next generation, transportation, networking, consumer and other high-performance embedded system applications. The new MPC5500 is designed to provide customers with significant performance gains over today's current solutions, while ensuring a smooth migration path.

Enhancements include: the new e500 core, complaint with the PowerPC architecture, running at up to 400MHz; fast, deterministic interrupt response (less than 25ns at 400MHz); an application processing unit for 64bit numeric processing with 222 instructions to support floating point and DSP algorithms, a split transaction bus to maximise internal data throughput and intelligent timers and communication modules to increase performance.

MPC5500 devices will be manufactured using Motorola's 0.10-micron manufacturing process.

The enhanced peripherals will become a part of Motorola's IP library, enabling rapid SoC development of new microcontrollers and integrated microprocessors to cover a wide range of applications.

"The existing MPC500 is a product family that is enjoying tremendous success in the marketplace and one that our customers can expect to leverage well into the future with the evolutionary technology that will be encompassed in the MPC5500 Family of devices", said Dr Franz Fink, general manager of Motorola's 32bit embedded controller Division.

"Having worked closely with major automotive electronics suppliers and manufacturers in a broad range of industries, we have a strong understanding of our customers' current and future requirements and will continue to meet their needs with the new PowerPC compliant microcontrollers".

The MPC5500 products are being designed to enable embedded systems in a variety of markets and to be more efficient, highly integrated and cost-effective than those currently available.

In automotive electronics, the planned MPC5500 MCUs will be designed to enable electronically controlled valve systems and camshafts, as well as enable electric and gasoline engine control functions to be integrated into a single engine control module for hybrid vehicles.

Motorola and Delphi Automotive Systems have already laid plans to develop engine management systems that meet next generation powertrain requirements based on the MPC5500 family.

The MPC5500 is already planned for use in a variety of avionics applications including global positioning systems for high performance aircraft applications, fuel control and altimeter control.

The MPC5500 family will be ideal for control intensive applications where timing and control of moving parts is essential, as is the case with robotics, manufacturing control and instrumentation, and energy management.

As with all Motorola microcontroller and microprocessor lines, a comprehensive selection of hardware and software development tools can be expected to be available for MPC5500 MCUs to simplify and shorten customers' development cycles.

The planned MPC5500 family continues Motorola's commitment to the industry standard Nexus debugging interface.

Extending its performance and encompassing multicore debugging to cover all the intelligent on chip modules.

Development support is expected from Metrowerks and other leading independent suppliers.

An MPC5500 development platform is planned by Motorola for 2002 to enable customers to get a head start on developing next-generation applications incorporating e500-based integrated microprocessors and microcontrollers.

Integrated products based on the MPC5500 architecture are planned for the first half of 2003.

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