The QorIQ P1025 reference design board (P1025RDB-PA) can accelerate your time to market for products targeting the networking, telecom, aerospace and defense and industrial markets. This cost-effective, highly integrated board is based on the QorIQ P1025 dual-core processor and features a broad array of modern connectivity options to help you quickly design, test and launch your application.

The P1025RDB features the dual-core P1025 processor and offers support for the single-core P1016 processor. The P1025 processor family is based on the e500 core, built on Power Architecture® technology, with a core frequency range of 400–667 MHz, and supports L1 32 KB instruction and data cache as well as a shared 256 KB frontside L2 cache. The P1025 supports three Gigabit Ethernet controllers with IEEE® 1588 v2 support, dual USB 2.0, up to two PCI Express® 1.0a controllers, up to two SGMII SerDes interfaces, 32-bit DDR with ECC support, a SPI controller supporting boot from SPI serial flash memory, an SD/MMC card controller supporting boot-from-flash cards, an integrated security engine and a QUICC Engine module supporting UTOPIA-L2, four T1/E1/HDLC and two additional 10/100 Ethernet interfaces.

The P1025 RDB features 1 GB unbuffered DDR3 SDRAM, 16 MB NOR flash and 32 MB NAND flash, with the ability to boot from either NOR or NAND flash memory. The reference design board includes a built-in security accelerator and QUICC Engine for multiprotocol support. It also supports three Gigabit-capable ports via an SGMII PHY and two RGMII PHYs, two 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet ports, as well as two ports of USB 2.0, two 10-pin RJ45 RS485 ports and PMC connectors.

The P1025RDB features two PCI Express ports, one a full size add-in connector, the other a mini PCI Express connector. In addition, the P1025RDB also provides a combination SD/MMC card slot. These components, integrated with the P1025, provide a highly versatile development platform that allows you to jump start your next design. In addition, the P1025RDB provides a simplified migration path for an existing PowerQUICC processor customer wishing to migrate to QorIQ multicore processors. Customers who only require single-core processing or lower power can migrate to the P1016 as a stepping stone on their way to multicore processing.

Key Applications: networking, telecom, aerospace and defense and industrial markets