Freescale: P2041RDB-PA QorIQ Reference Design Board

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Kit Overview

The P2041RDB-PAP2041RDB-PA is a compact (micro-ATX), highly integrated reference design board featuring the quad-core P2041 device. With its 1.5 GHz P2041 and rich input/output (I/O) mix, the board is designed for evaluating the P2041 and P2040 in networking and Ethernet-centric applications.

The P2041RDB-PAP2041RDB-PA board which exercises most capabilities of the device, can serve as a reference for the customer’s hardware development. It can also be used as a debug tool to check behaviors on the board compared to behaviors seen on customer boards. It can be used for software development and performance evaluation prior to the customer’s own board being ready. While the P2041RDB uses the superset P2041 device, it can also be configured to look like the more cost-effective subset device, the P2040.

The P2041 processor is based upon the e500mc core, built on Power Architecture® technology, offering speeds of 1200–1500 MHz. It has a three-level cache hierarchy with 32 KB of instruction and data cache per core, 128 KB of unified backside L2 cache per core, and 1 MB of shared frontside CoreNet platform cache fronting the memory controller. I/Os include 10 SerDes lanes running at up to 5 GHz, multiplexed across three PCI Express® Gen2 controllers, one 10 gigabit Ethernet (GE) XAUI interface, five 1 GE SGMII interfaces, four 2.5 Gb/s SGMII interfaces, two Serial RapidIO (version 1.3 with features of version 2.1) interfaces, two SATA 2.0 interfaces and the high-speed Aurora debug interface.

It has a 64-bit DDR3 and DDR3L (low power) DRAM interface with 8-bit ECC support running at up to 1333 MHz data rate. It includes two USB 2.0 interfaces (including PHY), two dual universal asynchronous receiver/transmitters (DUARTs), an SD/MMC interface, a 16-bit local bus, four I2C and SPI. It also includes the accelerator blocks collectively known as the Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA) that offload various tasks from the core, including routine packet handling, security algorithm calculation and pattern matching.

The P2041RDB-PAP2041RDB-PA offers significant flexibility in allocating its 10 SerDes lanes to various functions. Its base configuration supports three SGMII ports and two RGMII ports, a 2-lane PCI Express slot, and two SATA ports (one populated with a 320 GB hard drive). In other configurations, it can have two 4-lane PCI Express slots, which can be populated with off-the-shelf PCI Express cards or Freescale’s XAUI-RISER card

The P2041RDB-PAP2041RDB-PA is pre-loaded with an Embedded Linux Essentials for QorIQ Processors with Data Path Acceleration development kit. This kit includes a 2.6.x.x SMP Linux kernel, hugetlbfs for applications with a large memory footprint, user space DPAA for high-performance packet handling, u-boot, the GCC tool chain and Mentor System Builder, among many other features.

Key Applications:

Control plane and mixed control plane/data plane in switches and routers,Unified threat management,Base station network interface and baseband cards,Aerospace and defense,Multifunction printers and factory automation.

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Software Development Tools:

Tool Type	Supplier	MPN	Supported Family	Description
IDE	Freescale	CodeWarrior	All Freescale MCU's	Freescale's software and development solutions take you beyond the silicon, helping to bring your embedded applications to life. Learn More
RTOS	Freescale	MQX	ColdFire / HC08 / HC12 / ARM / S08 / RS08 / PowerPC	The Freescale MQX Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) provides real-time performance within a small, configurable footprint. This RTOS is designed to allow you to configure and balance code size with performance requirements. Learn More

Tool Type

Supplier

MPN

Supported Family

Description

IDE

Freescale

CodeWarrior

All Freescale MCU's

Freescale's software and development solutions take you beyond the silicon, helping to bring your embedded applications to life. Learn More

RTOS

Freescale

MQX

ColdFire / HC08 / HC12 / ARM / S08 / RS08 / PowerPC

The Freescale MQX Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) provides real-time performance within a small, configurable footprint. This RTOS is designed to allow you to configure and balance code size with performance requirements. Learn More

Technical Documents

Learning Center

Type	Description
Product Brief	Freescale: Product Brief for P2041 Reference Design Board
Product Brief	Freescale: Product Brief for QorIQ P2040/P2041 P3 and P5 Series High-performance multicore processors
Product Brief	Freescale: Product Brief for P2040 and P2041 low-end and mid-range quad-core processors
Datasheet	Freescale: Datasheet for P2041 QorIQ Integrated Processor Hardware Specifications
Datasheet	Freescale: Datasheet for P2040 QorIQ Integrated Processor Hardware Specifications
Reference Manual	Freescale: Reference Manual for P2040 QorIQ Integrated Multicore Communication Processor Family
Reference Manual	Freescale: Reference Manual for P2041 Security (SEC 4.2)
Application Note	Freescale: Application Note for Verification of the IEEE 1588 Interface
Application Note	Freescale: Application Note for Utilizing 36-Bit Physical Addressing in U-Boot and Linux
Whitepaper	Freescale: White Paper for Tuning QorIQ Processor Performance with Prism Software Analysis
Whitepaper	Freescale: White Paper for An Introduction to the QorIQ Platform’s Trust Architecture

Design Elements

Type	Description

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Kit Features

Processor
- P2041, 1.5 GHz core with 1333 MHz DDR3 data rate
- Multiple SysClk inputs for generating various device frequencies
- Switch to change system version register from P2041 to P2040 personality
Memory
- 4 GB unbuffered DDR3 SDRAM SO-DIMM (64-bit bus), 1333 MHz data rate
- 128 MB NOR flash single-chip memory
- 256 KB M24256M24256 I2C EEPROM
- 16 MB SPI memory
- SD connector to interface with an SD memory card
PCI Express
- Two x4 PCI Express slots
SATA
- One internal 2.5" SATA 2.0 drive, 320 GB
- One extra SATA connector
USB 2.0
- Two High-Speed USB controllers
- Two USB 2.0 Type A receptacles
Ethernet
- Supports five 10/100/1000 ports with no add-in cards
- dTSEC1 - dTSEC3 as SGMII to PHY: Vitesse VSC8221
- dTSEC4 - dTSEC5 as RGMII to PHY: Vitesse VSC8641
- 10 GE can be supported with Freescale’s optional XAUI-RISER card
DUART
- Two DUART DB9 ports
- Each DB9 supports two UARTs, each up to 115200 bps
Debug
- JTAG/COP
- Aurora high-speed connector
Other
- IEEE® 1588 connector for Symmetricom option card
- Real-time clock on I2C
- Temperature sensor on I2C
- Eight general purpose I/Os

Kit Contents

The Freescale's P2041RDB-PA is supplied with below contents:

QorIQ Reference Design Board
2.6.x.x SMP Linux kernel
User Guide

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