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Functional Description

MVME2502 Installation and Use (6806800R96E)

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4.2

Chipset

The MVME2502 utilizes the QorIQ P20x0 integrated processor. It offers an excellent
combination of protocol and interface support which includes the following components.

The QorIQ P2020 integrated processor or e500 processor core.

PCI Express interface

Local Bus Controller

Secure Digital Host Controller

I2C interface

USB interface

DUART

DMA controller

Enhanced three speed Ethernet controller

General Purpose I/O (GPIO)

Integrated Security Engine

Common On-chip Processor

P2020 Strapping pins

4.2.1

e500 Processor Core

The e500v2 (P2020)QorIQ integrated processor offers high performance dual core. It operates
from 1.0GHz up to 1.2GHz core frequency. The e500 processor core is a low-power
implementation of the family of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) embedded
processor that implement the Book E definition of the PowerPC architecture. The e500 is a 32-
bit implementation of the Book E architecture using the lower words of 64-bit general-purpose
registers (GPRs) while E500v2 uses 36 bit physical addressing.