Freescale Semiconductor
Product Brief Advance Information
MSC8122PB
Rev. 6, 4/2005
© Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., 2004, 2005. All rights reserved.
MSC8122
Quad Core 16-Bit Digital Signal Processor
The MSC8122 is a highly integrated system-on-a-chip that combines four SC140 extended cores with an RS-232
serial interface, four time-division multiplexed (TDM) serial interfaces, thirty-two general-purpose timers, a
flexible system interface unit (SIU), an Ethernet interface, and a multi-channel DMA engine. The four extended
cores can deliver a total 4800/6400/8000 DSP MMACS performance at 300/400/500 MHz.
Each core has four arithmetic logic units (ALUs), internal memory, a write buffer, and two interrupt controllers.
The MSC8122 targets high-bandwidth highly computational DSP applications and is optimized for wireless
transcoding and packet telephony as well as high-bandwidth base station applications. The MSC8122 delivers
enhanced performance while maintaining low power dissipation and greatly reduces system cost.
Figure 1. MSC8122 Block Diagram
MQBus
SQBus
Local Bus
128
128
Boot
ROM 64
PLL
JTAG
RS-232
Internal Local Bus
Internal System Bus
IPBus
IP Master
64
64
UART
Memory
Controller
M2
RAM
GPIO Pins
Interrupts
Memory
Controller
System Bus
32/64
DSI Port
32
32/64
PLL/Clock
JTAG Port
SC140
Extended Core
SC140
Extended Core
SC140
Extended Core
System
Interface
32 Timers
4 TDMs
SC140
Extended Core
DMA Bridge SIU
Registers
Direct
Slave
Interface
(DSI)
8 Hardware
Semaphores
GIC
GPIO
MII/RMII/SMII
Ethernet
The raw processing power of
this highly integrated system-
on- a-chip device will enable
developers to create next-
generation networking
products that offer
tremendous channel densities
while maintaining system
flexibility, scalability, and
upgradeability. The
MSC8122 is offered in three
core speed levels: 300, 400,
and 500 MHz.
Note: This document contains information on a new product. Specifications and information herein are subject to change without notice.
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Features
Features
Figure 2. SC140 Extended Core Block Diagram
Feature Description
SC140 Cores
Four SC140 cores:
• Up to 8000 MMACS using 16 ALUs running at up to 500 MHz.
• A total of 1436 KB of internal SRAM (224 KB per core).
Each SC140 core provides the following:
• Up to 2000 MMACS using an internal 500 MHz clock. A MAC operation includes a multiply-accumulate
command with the associated data move and pointer update.
• 4 ALUs per SC140 core.
• 16 data registers, 40 bits each.
• 27 address registers, 32 bits each.
• Hardware support for fractional and integer data types.
• Very rich 16-bit wide orthogonal instruction set.
• Up to six instructions executed in a single clock cycle.
• Variable-length execution set (VLES) that can be optimized for code density and performance.
•IEEE® Std 1149.1™ JTAG port.
• Enhanced on-device emulation (EOnCE) with real-time debugging capabilities.
SC140
Power
Management
Core
Program
Sequencer
Address
Register
File
Data ALU
Register
File
Address
ALU Data
ALU
EOnCEJTAG
Xa
Xb
P
QBus
IRQs
IRQs
MQBus
SQBus
Local Bus
128
128
64
64
64
LIC
PIC
128
128
QBus
Interface
Instruction
Cache
M1
RAM
Notes: 1. The arrows show the data transfer direction.
QBus
Bank 1
QBus
Bank 3
2. The QBus interface includes a bus switch, write buffer, fetch unit, and a
control unit that defines four QBus banks. In addition, the QBC handles internal
QBC
memory contentions.
SC140 Core
Features
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Extended Core
Each SC140 core is embedded within an extended core that provides the following:
• 224 KB M1 memory that is accessed by the SC140 core with zero wait states.
• Support for atomic accesses to the M1 memory.
• 16 KB instruction cache, 16 ways.
• A four-entry write buffer that frees the SC140 core from waiting for a write access to finish.
• External cache support by asserting the global signal (GBL) when predefined memory banks are accessed.
• Programmable interrupt controller (PIC).
• Local interrupt controller (LIC).
Multi-Core Shared
Memories
• 475 KB M2 memory (shared memory) working at the core frequency, accessible from the local bus, and
accessible from all four SC140 cores using the MQBus.
• 4 KB bootstrap ROM.
M2-Accessible Multi-
Core Bus (MQBus)
• A QBus protocol multi-master bus connecting the four SC140 cores to the M2 memory.
• Data bus access of up to 128-bit read and up to 64-bit write.
• Operation at the SC140 core frequency.
• A central efficient round-robin arbiter controlling SC140 core access on the MQBus.
• Atomic operation control of access to M2 memory by the four SC140 cores and the local bus.
Internal PLL
• Generates up to 500 MHz core clock and up to 166 MHz bus clocks for the 60x-compatible local and system
buses and other modules.
• PLL values are determined at reset based on configuration signal values.
60x-Compatible
System Bus
• 64/32-bit data and 32-bit address 60x bus.
• Support for multiple-master designs.
• Four-beat burst transfers (eight-beat in 32-bit wide mode).
• Port size of 64, 32, 16, and 8 controlled by the internal memory controller.
• Bus can access external memory expansion or off-device peripherals, or it can enable an external host device to
access internal resources.
• Slave support, direct access by an external host to internal resources including the M1 and M2 memories.
• On-device arbitration between up to four master devices.
Direct Slave
Interface (DSI)
A 32/64-bit wide slave host interface that operates only as a slave device under the control of an external host
processor.
• 21–25 bit address, 32/64-bit data.
• Direct access by an external host to internal and external resources, including the M1 and the M2 memories as
well as external devices on the system bus.
• Synchronous and asynchronous accesses, with burst capability in the synchronous mode.
• Dual or Single strobe modes.
• Write and read buffers improve host bandwidth.
• Byte enable signals enables 1, 2, 4, and 8 byte write access granularity.
• Sliding window mode enables access with reduced number of address pins.
• Chip ID decoding enables using one CS signal for multiple DSPs.
•Broadcast
CS signal enables parallel write to multiple DSPs.
• Big-endian, little-endian, and munged little-endian support.
3-Mode Signal
Multiplexing
• 64-bit DSI, 32-bit system bus.
• 32-bit DSI, 64-bit system bus.
• 32-bit DSI, 32-bit system bus, and Ethernet (MII/RMII).
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Features
Memory Controller
Flexible eight-bank memory controller:
• Three user-programmable machines (UPMs), general-purpose chip-select machine (GPCM), and a page-mode
SDRAM machine.
• Glueless interface to SRAM, 166 MHz page mode SDRAM, DRAM, EPROM, Flash memory, and other user-
definable peripherals.
• Byte enables for either 64-bit or 32-bit bus width mode.
• Eight external memory banks (banks 0–7). Two additional memory banks (banks 9, 11) control IPBus
peripherals and internal memories. Each bank has the following features:
— 32-bit address decoding with programmable mask.
— Variable block sizes (32 KB to 4 GB).
— Selectable memory controller machine.
— Two types of data errors check/correction: normal odd/even parity and read-modify-write (RMW) odd/even
parity for single accesses.
— Write-protection capability.
— Control signal generation machine selection on a per-bank basis.
— Support for internal or external masters on the system bus.
— Data buffer controls activated on a per-bank basis.
— Atomic operation.
— RMW data parity check (on system bus only).
— Extensive external memory-controller/bus-slave support.
— Parity byte select pin, which enables a fast, glueless connection to RMW-parity devices (on the system bus
only).
— Data pipeline to reduce data set-up time for synchronous devices.
Multi-Channel DMA
Controller
• 16 time-multiplexed unidirectional channels.
• Services up to four external peripherals.
• Supports DONE or DRACK protocol on two external peripherals.
• Each channel group services 16 internal requests generated by eight internal FIFOs. Each FIFO generates:
— A watermark request to indicate that the FIFO contains data for the DMA to empty and write to the
destination.
— A hungry request to indicate that the FIFO can accept more data.
• Priority-based time-multiplexing between channels using 16 internal priority levels.
• Round-robin time-multiplexing between channels.
• A flexible channel configuration:
— All channels support all features.
— All channels connect to the system bus or local bus.
• Flyby transfers in which a single data access is transferred directly from the source to the destination without
using a DMA FIFO.
Time-Division
Multiplexing (TDM)
Up to four independent TDM modules, each with the following features:
• Optional operating configurations:
— Totally independent receive and transmit channels, each having one data line, one clock line, and one
frame sync line.
— Four data lines with one clock and one frame sync shared among the transmit and receive lines.
• Glueless interface to E1/T1 framers and MVIP, SCAS, and H.110 buses.
• Hardware A-law/µ-law conversion.
• Up to 62.5 Mbps per TDM for 400/500 MHz core operation; up to 50 Mbps per TDM for 300 MHz core.
• Up to 256 channels.
• Up to 16 MB per channel buffer (granularity 8 bytes), where A/µ law buffer size is double (granularity 16 byte).
• Receive buffers share one global write offset pointer that is written to the same offset relative to their start
address.
• Transmit buffers share one global read offset pointer that is read from the same offset relative to their start
address.
• All channels share the same word size.
• Two programmable receive and two programmable transmit threshold levels with interrupt generation that can
be used, for example, to implement double buffering.
• Each channel can be programmed to be active or inactive.
• 2-, 4-, 8-, or 16-bit channels are stored in the internal memory as 2-, 4-, 8-, or 16-bit channels, respectively.
• The TDM Transmitter Sync Signal (TxTSYN) can be configured as either input or output.
• Frame Sync and Data signals can be programmed to be sampled either on the rising edge or on the falling edge
of the clock.
• Frame sync can be programmed as active low or active high.
• Selectable delay (0–3 bits) between the Frame Sync signal and the beginning of the frame.
• MSB or LSB first support.
Feature Description
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Ethernet Controller
• Designed to comply with IEEE Std 802® including IEEE Std. 802.3™, 802.3u™, 802.3x™, and 802.3ac™.
• Three Ethernet physical interfaces:
— 10/100 Mbps MII.
— 10/100 Mbps RMII.
— 10/100 Mbps SMII.
• Full and half-duplex support.
• Full-duplex flow control (automatic PAUSE frame generation or software programmed PAUSE frame generation
and recognition).
• Support of out-of-sequence transmit queue (for initiating flow-control).
• Programmable maximum frame length supports jumbo frames (up to 9.6k) and virtual local area network (VLAN)
tags and priority.
• Retransmission from transmit FIFO following a collision.
• CRC generation and verification of inbound/outbound packets.
• Address recognition:
— Each exact match can be programmed to be accepted or rejected.
— Broadcast address (accept/reject).
— Exact match 48-bit individual (unicast) address.
— Hash (256-bit hash) check of individual (unicast) addresses.
— Hash (256-bit hash) check of group (multicast) addresses.
— Promiscuous mode.
• Pattern matching:
— Up to 16 unique 4-byte patterns.
— Pattern match on bit-basis.
— Matching range up to 256 bytes deep into the frame.
— Offsets to a maximum of 252 bytes.
— Programmable pattern size in 4-byte increments up to 64 bytes.
— Accept or reject frames if a match is detected.
— Up to eight unicast addresses for exact matches.
— Pattern matching accepts/rejects IP addresses.
• Filing of receive frames based on pattern match; prioritization of frames.
• Insertion with expansion or replacement for transmit frames; VLAN tag insertion.
•RMON statistics.
• Master DMA on the local bus for fetching descriptors and accessing the buffers.
• Serial interface can be exposed either on GPIO pins or on the high ms bits of the DSI/system when the DSI and
the system bus are both 32 bits.
• MPC8260(PQ2) 8 byte width buffer descriptor mode as well as 32 byte width buffer descriptor mode.
• MII Bridge (MIIGSK):
— Programmable selection of the 50 MHz RMII reference clock source (external or internal).
— Independent 2 bit wide transmit and receive data paths.
— Six operating modes.
— Four general-purpose control signals.
— Programmable transmitted inter-frame bits to support inter-frame gap for frames in the SMII domain.
• SMII features:
— Multiplexed only with GPIO signals
— Convey complete MII information between the PHY and MAC.
— Allow direct MAC-to-MAC communication in SMII mode.
— Can generate an interrupt request line while receiving inter-frame segments.
Feature Description
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Features
UART
• Two signals for transmit data and receive data.
• No clock, asynchronous mode.
• Can be serviced either by the SC140 DSP cores or an external host on the system bus or the DSI.
• Full-duplex operation.
• Standard mark/space non-return-to-zero (NRZ) format.
• 13-bit baud rate selection.
• Programmable 8-bit or 9-bit data format.
• Separately enabled transmitter and receiver.
• Programmable transmitter output polarity.
• Two receiver wake-up methods:
— Idle line wake-up.
— Address mark wake-up.
• Separate receiver and transmitter interrupt requests.
• Eight flags, the first five can generate interrupt request:
— Transmitter empty.
— Transmission complete.
— Receiver full.
— Idle receiver input.
— Receiver overrun.
— Noise error.
— Framing error.
— Parity error.
• Receiver framing error detection.
• Hardware parity checking.
• 1/16 bit-time noise detection.
• Maximum bit rate 6.25 Mbps.
• Single-wire and loop operations.
General-Purpose I/O
(GPIO) Port
• 32 bidirectional signal lines that either serve the peripherals or act as programmable I/O ports.
• Each port can be programmed separately to serve up to two dedicated peripherals, and each port supports
open-drain output mode.
I2C Software Module • Booting from a serial EEPROM.
• Uses GPIO timing
Timers
Two modules of 16 timers each.
• Cyclic or one-shot.
• Input clock polarity control.
• Interrupt request when counting reaches a programmed threshold.
• Pulse or level interrupts.
• Dynamically updated programmed threshold.
• Read counter any time.
Watchdog mode for the timers that connect to the device.
Hardware
Semaphores
Eight coded hardware semaphores, locked by simple write access without need for read-modify-write mechanism.
Global Interrupt
Controller (GIC)
• Consolidation of chip maskable interrupt and non-maskable interrupt sources and routing to INT_OUT,
NMI_OUT, and to the cores.
• Generation of 32 virtual interrupts (eight to each SC140 core) by a simple write access.
• Generation of virtual NMI (one to each SC140 core) by a simple write access.
Reduced Power
Dissipation
• Low power CMOS design.
• Separate power supply for internal logic (1.1 or 1.2 V) and I/O (3.3 V).
• Low-power standby modes.
• Optimized power management circuitry (instruction-dependent, peripheral-dependent, and mode-dependent).
Packaging
• 0.8 mm pitch Flip-Chip Plastic Ball-Grid Array (FC-PBGA).
• 431-connection (ball).
• Lead-free or lead-bearing spheres.
•20 mm × 20 mm.
Real-Time Operating
System (RTOS)
The real-time operating system (RTOS) fully supports device architecture (multi-core, memory hierarchy, ICache,
timers, DMA controller, interrupts, peripherals), as follows:
• High-performance and deterministic, delivering predictive response time.
• Optimized to provide low interrupt latency with high data throughput.
• Preemptive and priority-based multitasking.
• Fully interrupt/event driven.
• Small memory footprint.
• Comprehensive set of APIs.
Feature Description
Features
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Multi-Core Support • One instance of kernel code in all four SC140 cores.
• Dynamic and static memory allocation from local memory (M1) and shared memory (M2).
Distributed System
Support
Transparent inter-task communications between tasks running inside the SC140 cores and the other tasks running
in on-board devices or remote network devices:
• Messaging mechanism between tasks using mailboxes and semaphores.
• Networking support; data transfer between tasks running inside and outside the device using networking
protocols.
• Integrated device drivers for such peripherals as TDM, UART, and external buses.
Software Support
• Task debugging utilities integrated with compilers and vendors.
• Board support package (BSP) for the application development system (ADS).
• Integrated development environment (IDE):
— C/C++ compiler with in-line assembly so developers can generate highly optimized DSP code. Translates
C/C++ code into parallel fetch sets and maintains high code density.
— Librarian. User can create libraries for modularity.
— A collection of C/C++ functions for developer use.
— Highly efficient linker to produce executables from object code.
— Seamlessly integrated real-time, non-intrusive multi-mode debugger for debugging highly optimized DSP
algorithms. The developer can choose to debug in source code, assembly code, or mixed mode.
— Device simulation models enable design and simulation before hardware availability.
— Profiler using a patented binary code instrumentation (BCI) technique helps developers identify program
design inefficiencies.
— Version control. CodeWarrior® includes plug-ins for ClearCase, Visual SourceSafe, and CVS.
Boot Options
•External memory.
• External host.
•UART.
•TDM.
•I
2C.
MSC8122ADS
• Host debug through single JTAG connector supports both processors.
• MSC8103 as the MSC8122 host with both devices on the board. The MSC8103 system bus connects to the
MSC8122 DSI.
• Flash memory for stand-alone applications.
• Communications ports:
— 10/100Base-T.
— 155 Mbit ATM over Optical.
— T1/E1 TDM interface.
—H.110.
— Voice codec.
— RS-232.
— High-density (MICTOR) logic analyzer connectors to monitor MSC8122 signals
— 6U cPCI form factor.
• Emulates MSC8122 DSP farm by connecting to three other ADS boards.
Feature Description
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Rev. 6
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Product Documentation
The documents listed in Table 1 are required for a complete description of the MSC8122 and are necessary to
design properly with the part. Documentation is available from a local Freescale distributor, a Freescale
semiconductor sales office, or a Freescale Literature Distribution Center. For documentation updates, visit the
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Table 1. MSC8122 Documentation
Name Description Order Number
MSC8122
Technical Data
MSC8122 features list and physical, electrical, timing, and package specifications MSC8122
MSC8122
User’s Guide
User information includes system functionality, getting started, and programming
topics
MSC8122UG
MSC8122
Reference Manual
Detailed functional description of the MSC8122 memory and peripheral configuration,
operation, and register programming
MSC8122RM
SC140 DSP Core Reference
Manual
Detailed description of the SC140 family processor core and instruction set MNSC140CORE
Application Notes
Documents describing specific applications or optimized device operation including
code examples
Refer to the MSC8122
product page.
