Document Number: MPC8548EEC
Rev. 6, 12/2009
Freescale Semiconductor
Technical Data
MPC8548E PowerQUICC™ III
Integrated Processor
Hardware Specifications
Contents
1 Overview
This section provides a high-level overview of MPC8548E
features. Figure 1 shows the major functional units within
the MPC8548E.
1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. Electrical Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3. Power Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4. Input Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5. RESET Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6. DDR and DDR2 SDRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7. DUART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
8. Enhanced Three-Speed Ethernet (eTSEC) . . . . . . . . 26
Although this document is written from the perspective of
the MPC8548E, most of the material applies to the other
family members—MPC8547E, MPC8545E, and
MPC8543E—as well. When specific differences occur, such
as pinout differences and processor frequency ranges, they
will be identified as such.
9. Ethernet Management Interface Electrical
Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
10. Local Bus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
11. Programmable Interrupt Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
12. JTAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
13. I2C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
14. PCI/PCI-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
15. High-Speed Serial Interfaces (HSSI) . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
16. PCI Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
17. Serial RapidIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
18. Package Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
19. Clocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
20. Thermal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
21. System Design Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
22. Ordering Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
23. Document Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
For specific PVR and SVR numbers, refer to the MPC8548E
PowerQUICC™ III Integrated Processor Family Reference
Manual.
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