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Document Number: B4860FS REV 3
While the four Power Architecture cores offer
industry-leading processing capacity and a major
leap in available processor performance for layer
2 and layer 3 in many throughput-intensive,
packet-processing networking applications, raw
CPU processing power is not enough to achieve
multi-Gb/s data rates. To address this, the
B4860 uses Freescale Data Path Acceleration
Architecture (DPAA), which significantly reduces
data plane instructions per packet and enables
more CPU cycles to work on value-added
services rather than repetitive low-level tasks.
Combined with specialized accelerators for
cryptography and pattern matching, the B4860
allows the user’s software to perform complex
packet processing at high data rates.
The B4860 offloads performance and latency-
critical layer 1 functions to MAPLE-B3,
which integrates highly optimized and flexible
accelerators. The smart partitioning introduced
in B4860 provides an excellent balance
between OEM intellectual property, hardwired
accelerators and algorithms implemented on the
fully programmable StarCore FVP and is highly
efficient in terms of power dissipation and silicon
area utilization.
QorIQ Qonverge B4860
Processor Features
Hardware
• Integratedprocessorcoresandaccelerators
for layer control and transport processing
Four e6500 dual-threaded, 64-bit Power
Architecture cores
- Dual threading with simultaneous multi
threading (SMT)
- 128-bit AltiVec SIMD unit
- 40-bit physical addressing
- Fully featured MMU with a 1024-entry
eight-way set-associative cache
- Core virtualization supporting hypervisor
and logical to real address translation
- Clustered L2 cache allowing strict
allocation or full sharing
- Hardware support for L1 and L2
cache coherency
DPAA (frame manager, queue manager,
buffer manager) for IP packed acceleration
Security protocol accelerators: SNOW-3G,
Kasumi, ZUC, IPSec, DES, 3DES, AES,
MD5, SHA-1/2, HMAC
• IntegratedDSPcoresandbaseband
accelerators for layer 1 processing
Six StarCore SC3900FP FVP
programmable cores
- Up to 32 MAC/cycle of 16-bit and up to
16 FLOP/cycle
- Eight instructions per cycle
- Up to eight data lanes vector in a single
instruction (SIMD8)
- State-of-the-art support for control code
with branch prediction
- Fully featured memory management unit
and logical to real address translation
- Clustered L2 cache allowing strict
allocation or full sharing
- Hardware support for L1 and L2 cache
coherency
MAPLE baseband accelerators
- FEC accelerators for LTE, LTE-Advanced
and WCDMA
›› Turbo decoder with rate de-matching
and HARQ combining
›› Turbo encoder with rate matching
›› Viterbi decoder
- FFT/iFFT
- DFT/iDFT
- MiMO equalizer MMSE-based supporting
IRC, SIC and PIC
- Matrix inversion and multiplication
- PUSCH data path embedded flow
- PDSCH data path embedded flow
- WCDMA/HSPA+ chip rate and path
search
- CRC
• CoreNet:Internalcachecoherentswitchfabric
enabling full cache coherent system
• TwoDDR-3/3Lcontrollers:64-bit,1.867GHz
(each with 512 KB L3 cache)
• ECCsupportforon-chipandoff-chip
memories
• High-speedinterfacesmultiplexedinto16
SerDes 10G ports
Two 10 G/2.5 G/1 G Ethernet controllers
Four 2.5 G/1 G Ethernet controllers
IEEE
®
1588v2 support
Two x4 Serial RapidIO controllers 5G
(Gen II)
Eight CPRI v4.2 controllers 9.8G
Four-lane PCI Express
®
5G (Gen II)
Eight Aurora: Tracing/debug
• Trustarchitecturewithsecureboot
• Oneserialportinterface(eSPI)
• OneeSD/eMMCinterface
• OneIFC:16-bitintegratedNAND/NORflash
controller or general-purpose interface
• OneUSB2.0interface
• FourI
2
C Interfaces
• FourUARTports
• 18232-bittimers
• 44general-purposeI/Os
Software
• DevelopmenttoolsfromFreescaleand
partners
Eclipse IDE
Compilers
Debuggers
Profiling, critical code analysis, call tree,
trace points
Nexus trace viewer, code viewer,
performance view, trace analyzer
Scripting for post-process trace and
performance data
Register analyzer
Device and core simulators
Operating systems
BSP and device drivers
• B4860QDSboard:Softwareandreference
application development system
• Freescale’soptimizedsoftwarereference
libraries for LTE and WCDMA layer 1 PHY
functions
General
• 1020-pinFC-PBGApackage,1mmpitch
• Corevoltage:VID
• I/Ovoltage:1,1.2,1.35,1.5,1.8and2.5
nominal
• Industrialtemperaturerange
• 12.3MBinternalmemory
• Debugports:Testaccessportandboundary
scan architecture compliant with IEEE Std.
1149.1
™
, 1149.6
™
and Nexus IEEE-ISTO 5001
trace support
• Lead-freeROHScompliant