QorIQ
Communications
Platforms
T Series — QorIQ T2080 and T2081
i.MX 6SoloX applications processors
communication processors
and could be on two lines
The 28 nm QorIQ T2080 and T2081 communications processors bring the architectural
innovations of the T series flagship T4240, such as the 1.8 GHz dual-threaded e6500
core, into an eight virtual core mid-range platform at reduced power and price points.
OVERVIEW
The T2080 processor is primarily intended to succeed our
successful P3041 and P2041 mid-range series of quad-core
devices as a control plane or integrated control and data
plane processor. It provides an excellent migration path, as
it offers 2x or better in core capability, cache size, SerDes
bandwidth and Ethernet connectivity within a similar power
budget. It also provides a value engineering opportunity for
P4080 customers, as T2080 provides equivalent performance
at much lower price and power.
The T2081 is a smaller package version of the T2080, which
is pin compatible with the quad-core T1042. This provides
T1042 customers an easy upgrade to higher performance
if processing requirements increase. It also enables customers
to reuse a single board for two different product
performance levels.
TARGET MARKETS AND APPLICATIONS
The T2080 and T2081 processors are targeted at mid-range
control plane applications or mixed control and data plane
applications. The highly efficient eight virtual core device
achieves up to 1.8 GHz even while maintaining a short seven-
stage pipeline for better latency response to unpredictable
control plane code branches. Advanced virtualization
technology facilitates safe partitioning of control and data
plane applications within the device.
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Enterprise equipment:
Modular Ethernet switches, services
cards, UTM equipment, enterprise storage, data center
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Service provider:
Core and edge routers, broadband
access, metro Ethernet, optical networking
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Wireless infrastructure:
Mobile backhaul, NICs, channel
cards, control cards in LTE, WCDMA, GSM, WiMAX
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Aerospace and defense:
ruggedized or highly secure
routers, avionics networking, instrumentation panels,
military SBCs
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Industrial computing:
SBCs, factory automation, test
and measurement
E6500 CORE
The T2080 and T2081 processors are
based on the 64-bit e6500 core, built
on Power Architecture
®
technology, and
run up to 1.8 GHz. The e6500 core also
offers higher aggregate instructions per
clock at lower power with an innovative
“fused core” approach to threading.
The e6500’s fully resourced dual threads
provide 1.7 times the performance of a
single thread.
The four e6500 dual-threaded cores
share a low-latency backside 2 MB L2
cache, allowing efficient sharing of code
and data. Each e6500 core implements
the NXP AltiVec technology-based
SIMD engine, dramatically boosting the
performance of media and networking
algorithms, offering native inline
programming and using less power than
a separate DSP.
VIRTUALIZATION
TThe T2080 and T2081 processors
include support for hardware-assisted
virtualization. The e6500 core offers an
extra core privilege level (hypervisor)
and hardware offload of logical to real
address translation. In addition, the
T2080 and T2081 include platform-
level enhancements such as SR-IOV and
I/O virtualization with DMA memory
protection through IOMMUs and
configurable “storage profiles,” which
provide isolation of I/O buffers between
guest environments. Virtualization
software for the T2080 and T2081
processors includes kernel virtualization
model (KVM), Linux
®
containers and the
NXP hypervisor.
QorIQ T2080 COMMUNICATIONS PROCESSOR
T1
Power™
e6500
T2
T1
Power™
e6500
T2
T1
Power™
e6500
T2
T1
Power™
e6500
T2
32 KB
D-Cache
32 KB
I-Cache
32 KB
D-Cache
32 KB
I-Cache
32 KB
D-Cache
32 KB
I-Cache
32 KB
D-Cache
32 KB
I-Cache
Pre-fetch
512KB
Platform Cache
2MB Banked L2
Security Fuse Processor
Security Monitor
IFC
Power Management
SDXC/eMMC
2x DUART
4x I
2
C
SPI, GPIO
2x USB2.0 + PHY
PAMU
64-bit DDR3/3L
Memory Controller
Coherency Fabric
PAMU
Peripheral Access Mgmt Unit
PAMU
SAT A 2.0
HiGig/+
DCB
SAT A 2.0
DCE
1.0
Security
5.2
(XoR,
CRC)
Queue
Mgr.
Parse, Classify, Distribute
Real-Time Debug
8ch
DMA
8ch
DMA
8ch
DMA
Warchpoint
Cross Trigger
Perf.
Monitor
CoreNet
Trace
PME
2.1
RMan
Buffer
Mgr.
sRIO
sRIO
PCle
PCle
PCle
PCle
Frame Manager
4x 1 / 2.5 / 10G
8-Lane
4x 1 / 2.5G
10 GHz SerDes
Aurora
8 GHz SerDes
8-Lane
Core Complex Complex (CPU, L2, L3 Cache)
Accelerators and Memory Control
Basic Peripherals and Interconnect
Networking Elements
T2080 VS. T2081 DIFFERENCES
T2080
SerDes
PCIe
SRIO
SATA
Aurora
10 Gb/s MACs
1 Gb/s MACs
Package
16
2x Gen3 + 2x Gen2
2 + RMan
2
Yes
Up to four, with XFI, XAUI, HiGig
Up to eight
25 x 25mm, 896 pins, 0.8 mm pitch
T2081
8
1x Gen3 + 3x Gen2
No
No
No
Up to 2x XFI
Up to seven
23 x 23mm, 780 pins, 0.8 mm pitch,
pin compatible with T1042
DATA PATH ACCELERATION
ARCHITECTURE (DPAA)
The T2080 and T2081 processors
integrate the QorIQ DPAA, an innovative
multicore infrastructure for scheduling
work to cores (physical and virtual),
hardware accelerators and network
interfaces. The FMAN, a primary element
of the DPAA, parses headers from
incoming packets and classifies and
selects data buffers with optional policing
and congestion management. The FMAN
passes its work to the QMAN, which
assigns it to cores or accelerators with
a multi-level scheduling hierarchy, while
maintaining packet ordering. The BMAN
manages allocation and de-allocation
of packet buffers. The T2080 and
T2081’s implementation of DPAA offers
accelerators for cryptography, deep
packet inspection and compression
decompression.
SOFTWARE AND TOOL SUPPORT
NXP and our partner network deliver a
wide range of tools, run-time software,
reference solutions and services to
accelerate your designs.
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QorIQ T2080 reference design board
(T2080RDB)
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CodeWarrior Development Studio for
Power Architecture
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NXP Linux SDK
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VortiQa Application Software
– VortiQa Application Identification
Software (AIS)
– Enterprise Software for Networking
– VortiQa open network switch
software
– VortiQa open network director
software
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Professional Services & Support
– Commercial Services
– Linux SDK Support Package
– Reference Design Software (RDS)
Support Package
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Third Party Software and Tools
– Enea, Green Hills, Mentor Graphics
and Wind River
T2080 AND T2081 FEATURES LIST
• Up to 1.8 GHz, 6.0 DMIPS/MHz per core
Four dual-threaded
e6500 cores built on
Power Architecture
®
technology
• Shares a 2 MB L2 cache
• Three levels of instructions: User, supervisor, hypervisor
• Hybrid 32-bit mode to support legacy software and transition to a 64-bit
architecture
• Advanced power saving modes include state retention power gating
CoreNet platform
cache
Hierarchical
interconnect fabric
Memory controller
• 512 KB shared platform cache with prefetch engine
• CoreNet fabric supporting coherent and non-coherent transactions with
prioritization and bandwidth allocation amongst CoreNet endpoints
• 64-bit DDR3/3L SDRAM up to 2133 MT/s
• 72-bit width including ECC
• Packet parsing, classification and distribution to 24 Gb/s (FMAN)
• Queue management for scheduling, packet sequencing and congestion
management of up to 224 queues (QMAN)
DPAA incorporating
acceleration for the
following functions
• Hardware buffer management for buffer allocation and de-allocation with 64
buffer pools (BMAN)
• Cryptography acceleration to 10 Gb/s (SEC)
• Decompression/compression acceleration at up to 17.5 Gb/s (DCE)
• DPAA chip-to-chip interconnect via RapidIO® message manager (RMAN)
(T2080 only)
• Pattern matching acceleration to 10 Gb/s (PME)
SerDes
• 16 lanes at up to 10 GHz (8 on T2081)
• Quality of service: Egress traffic shaping and priority flow control for data
center bridging in converged data center applications
• 8 MACs (7 on T2081), multiplexed over the following options:
Ethernet interfaces
• Up to four 10 Gb/s MACs supporting XFI/KR, XAUI and HiGig
• (two on T2081 supporting XFI/KR only)
• Up to eight 1 Gb/s MACs (5 on T2080) supporting SGMII
• Up to two 2.5 Gb/s SGMII
• Up to two RGMII
• Two PCI Express 3.0 controllers (one on T2081)
High-speed peripheral
interfaces
• Two PCI Express 2.0 controllers (three on T2081)
• Endpoint SR-IOV
• Two Serial RapidIO 2.1 controllers/ports running at up to 5 GHz with Type
11 messaging and Type 9 data streaming support (T2080 only)
• Two serial ATA (SATA 2.0) controllers (T2080 only)
• Two High-Speed USB 2.0 controllers with integrated PHYs
Additional peripheral
interfaces
• Enhanced secure digital host controller (SD/MMC/eMMC)
• Enhanced serial peripheral interface
• Four I
2
C controllers
• Four UARTS
• Integrated flash controller supporting NAND and NOR flash memory
DMA
• Dual eight channel
• Extra privileged level for hypervisor support
• Logical to real address translation
Support for hardware
virtualization
and partitioning
enforcement
• Virtual core aware MMU/TLB
• vMPIC (virtualized interrupt controller)/virtual core capable PPC cores
• vDMA (user level DMA engine)
• PAMU v2 (I/O MMU supporting paging)
• DPAA (Ethernet MAC virtualization, accelerator virtualization)
QorIQ trust
architecture
• Secure boot, secure debug, tamper detection (T2080 only), volatile key
storage, alternate image and key revocation
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Document Number:
T2080FS REV 2