QorIQ® T4240

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The T4240, with 24 virtual cores, is the flagship of the QorIQ^® T series. With the T4160 (16 virtual cores) and T4080 (8 virtual cores), the T4 family has a 3x performance scaling factor within a pin-compatible package. Low-power variants are also available: T4241 (24 threads), T4161 (16 threads), and T4081 (8 threads).

With frequencies scaling to 1.8 GHz, integrated 1Gbps and 10Gpbs Ethernet, hardware acceleration and advanced system peripherals, these products target applications that benefit from consolidation of control and data plane processing in a single SoC, such as services cards, microservers, ADCs, WOCs, intelligent NICS, RNCs.

Data Sheet

Reference Manual

Product Details

Block Diagram

T4240 BD IMG

QorIQ T Series T4240 64-bit Multicore Communications Processors

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Features

Core Complex

Twelve dual-threaded e6500 cores built on Power Architecture^{^®} technology on T4240/T4241, each with one AltiVec^® engine (eight and T4160/T4161 and four on T4080/T4081)
Arranged as three clusters of four e6500s, each sharing a 2 MB L2 cache (two clusters on T4160/T4161 and one cluster on T4080/T4081).
Up to 1.8 GHz with 64-bit ISA support (Power Architecture v2.06-compliant)
Three levels of instruction: user, supervisor, and hypervisor
1.5 MB CoreNet^® Platform Cache (1MB on T4160/T4161 and T4080/T4081)

Networking Elements

SerDes: 32 lanes (T4240/T4241) or 24 lanes (T4160/T4161 and T4080/T4081) at up to 10GHz
- Supports XAUI, XFI, 10Gbase-KR, QSGMII, SGMII, 2.5G SGMII, HiGig, HiGig2, Interlaken, PCIe, SRIO, and SATA
Ethernet
- Up to 4x 10GE ports on XAUI, XFI, 10Gbase-KR, and HiGig (2x 10GE on T4160/T4161 and T4080/T4081)
- Supports up to 16x 1GE ports with SGMII, QSGMII, and RGMII (13 on T4160/T4161 and T4080/T4081).
- Packet parsing, classification and distribution up to 50Gb/s
- Data Center Bridging
Interlaken-LA
4x PCIe, two at Gen2 and two at Gen3 (3x PCIe, one at Gen2 and two at Gen3 on T4160/T4161 and T4080/T4081)
SR-IOV with two PF and 128 VF
2x Serial RapidIO, 5GHz
- Serial Rapid IO Message Manager for Type 8 - 11 messages.
2x Serial ATA (SATA2.0) controllers
3x 8-channel DMA engines
Aurora high performance debug port

Accelerators and Memory Control

Three 64-bit DDR3 and DDR3L SDRAM memory controller with ECC support, operating up to 1866MT/s (two controllers on T4160/T4161 and T4080/T4081)
Hardware-based Cryptography acceleration (SEC5.0) to 40Gb/s
Data compression/decompression engine (DCE1.0) to 20Gb/s
Pattern Matching Engine (PME2.0) to 10Gb/s

Basic Peripherals and Interconnect

Enhanced secure digital host controller (SD/MMC/eMMC)
Enhanced serial peripheral interface (SPI)
2 x USB controller (USB 2.0) with integrated PHY
4 x I²C controllers, 2 x DUARTs, timers
Integrated flash controller (IFC) supporting NAND and NOR flash

Additional Features

Trusted boot platform
Advanced power management

	T4080	T4081	T4160	T4161	T4240	T4241
Power Variant	Standard	Low	Standard	Low	Standard	Low
Cores (Dual Threaded)	4		8		12
L2 Cache	2MB		4MB		6MB
CoreNet Platform Cache	1MB		1MB		1.5MB
DDR Controllers	2		2		3
SerDes Lanes	24		24		36
Max 10Gbps Ethernet	2		2		4
Max 1Gbps Ethernet	13		13		16
PCIe ports	3		3		4

We recommend the following Quad Port Gigabit Copper EEE PHY

	F104S8A	F104X8A
Description	QSGMII PHY Standard Temperature	QSGMII PHY Extended Temperature
Operating Temperature (°C)	0 - 125	-40 - 125
Package Type	12x12, QFN, 138-pin, 0.65mm pin pitch	12x12, QFN, 138-pin, 0.65mm pin pitch
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Buy/Parametrics

Part Show description	Status	Budgetary Price excluding tax	Package Type	Package Termination Count	Core: Number of cores (SPEC)	Core Type	Operating Frequency [Max] (MHz)	Junction Temperature (Min to Max) (℃)	L2 Cache (Max) (KB)	L3 Cache (Max) (KB)	Ethernet Type	PCIe	External Memory Supported	Typical Power	sRIO
T4080NSE7PQB Data Sheet	Active	100 @ US$424.89	BGA1932	1932	8	e6500	1500	0 to 105	2048	1024	10G, 1G, 2.5G	—	DDR3 SDRAM, DDR3L SDRAM	20.4	2
T4080NSE7QTB Data Sheet	Active	100 @ US$531.12	BGA1932	1932	8	e6500	1667	0 to 105	2048	1024	10G, 1G, 2.5G	—	DDR3 SDRAM, DDR3L SDRAM	20.4	2
T4080NSN7PQB Data Sheet	Active	100 @ US$403.65	BGA1932	1932	8	e6500	1500	0 to 105	2048	1024	10G, 1G, 2.5G	—	DDR3 SDRAM, DDR3L SDRAM	20.4	2
T4080NSN7QTB Data Sheet	Active	100 @ US$504.56	BGA1932	1932	8	e6500	1667	0 to 105	2048	1024	10G, 1G, 2.5G	—	DDR3 SDRAM, DDR3L SDRAM	20.4	2
T4080NXE7PQB Data Sheet	Active	100 @ US$475.88	BGA1932	1932	8	e6500	1500	-40 to 105	2048	1024	10G, 1G, 2.5G	—	DDR3 SDRAM, DDR3L SDRAM	20.4	2
T4080NXN7PQB Data Sheet	Active	100 @ US$452.07	BGA1932	1932	8	e6500	1500	-40 to 105	2048	1024	10G, 1G, 2.5G	—	DDR3 SDRAM, DDR3L SDRAM	20.4	2
T4081NSE7PQB Data Sheet	Active	100 @ US$446.17	BGA1932	1932	8	e6500	1500	0 to 105	2048	1024	10G, 1G, 2.5G	3	DDR3 SDRAM, DDR3L SDRAM	16.8	2
T4081NSE7QTB Data Sheet	Active	100 @ US$557.66	BGA1932	1932	8	e6500	1667	0 to 105	2048	1024	10G, 1G, 2.5G	3	DDR3 SDRAM, DDR3L SDRAM	18.6	2
T4081NSE7TTB Data Sheet	Active	100 @ US$619.65	BGA1932	1932	8	e6500	1800	0 to 105	2048	1024	10G, 1G, 2.5G	3	DDR3 SDRAM, DDR3L SDRAM	19.4	2
T4081NSN7PQB Data Sheet	Active	100 @ US$423.83	BGA1932	1932	8	e6500	1500	0 to 105	2048	1024	10G, 1G, 2.5G	3	DDR3 SDRAM, DDR3L SDRAM	16.8	2

Design Resources

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Hardware

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QorIQ® T4240/T4160/T4080 Multicore Communications Processors

Product Details

Block Diagram

T4240 BD IMG

Features

Core Complex

Networking Elements

Accelerators and Memory Control

Basic Peripherals and Interconnect

Additional Features

Comparison Table

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Application Note (16)

PBL Configuration using QCVS Application Note[AN5260]

AN4559, QorIQ T4240 Design Checklist - Application Note[AN4559]

AN5295, QorIQ Serial RapidIO Debug Tips - Application Note[AN5295]

SerDes Configuration and Validation Tool Companion Application Note[AN5119]

AN5102, Initializing the T4240 Interlaken Look-Aside Feature - Application Note[AN5102]

AN5138, Implementing Maximum Load-Step (Δi/Δt) Software for T-Series Microprocessors - Application Note[AN5138]

AN5125, Introduction to Device Trees - Application Note[AN5125]

AN4039, PowerQUICC and QorIQ DDR3 SDRAM Controller Register Setting Considerations - Application Note[AN4039]

AN4584, Differences Between P4080 Rev. 2 and P4080 Rev. 3 - Application Notes[AN4584]

AN4972, Serial RapidIO DMA Demonstration with Two T4240QDS Boards using U-boot - Application Notes[AN4972]

AN4787 - Temperature Measurements Using an On-Die Thermal Diode[AN4787]

AN4531, Achieving Persistent DRAM on PowerQUICC III and QorIQ Processors - Application Notes[AN4531]

AN3940, Hardware and Layout Design Considerations for DDR3 SDRAM Memory Interfaces - App Note[AN3940]

AN4814, Porting U-Boot and Linux to T4240 Systems - Application Note[AN4814]

AN4786, MEPL Quick Start Guide - Application Note[AN4786]

DDR Interleaving for PowerQUICC and QorIQ Processors[AN3939]

Application Note Software (1)

Software package for AN4972[AN4972SW]

Brochure (1)

QorIQ® T4 Family of Processors - Our Highest Performance Processor Family - Brochure[BRT4FAMI]

Data Sheet (2)

QorIQ T4160/T4080 Data Sheet[T4160]

QorIQ T4240 Data Sheet[T4240]

Fact Sheet (1)

QorIQ® T Series - T4240, T4160 and T4080 communications processors - Fact Sheet[T4240T4160FS]Featured

Product Brief (1)

T4240 Product Brief - Product Brief[T4240PB]

Reference Manual (6)

T4240RM, T4240 QorIQ Integrated Multicore Communications Processor Family Reference Manual - Reference Manual[T4240RM]

T4240DPAArm, QorIQ T4240 Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA) Reference Manual[T4240DPAARM]

T4240SECRM, T4240 Security (SEC) Reference Manual with Updates - Reference Manual[T4240SECRM]

ALTIVECPOWERISAPEM, AltiVec® Technology Programming Environments Manual[ALTIVECPOWERISAPEM]

E6500RM, e6500 Core Reference Manual - Reference Manual[E6500RM]

EREF_RM, EREF: A Programmer's Reference Manual for Freescale Power Architecture Processors - Reference Manual[EREF_RM]

Supporting Information (2)

FSLNISTCAVP, NIST Crypto Algorithm Validation Program Certifications for NXP® Cryptographic Accelerators - White Paper[FSLNISTCAVP]

T4xxx Family Customer Export Control Information[T4XXX-PECI]

User Guide (1)

Spectre and Meltdown Updates for Power ISA Cores[SPECTRE-MELTDOWN-POWER-ISA-DOC]

White Paper (3)

Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities and Mitigations on NXP PowerPC Processors White Paper[SPECTREPPCWP]

QORIQPMWP, QorIQ Power Management - White Paper[QORIQPMWP]

QorIQ DPAA Primer for Software Architecture[QORIQDPAAWP]

QorIQ® T Series - T4240, T4160 and T4080 communications processors - Fact SheetFeatured

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Application Note (16)

PBL Configuration using QCVS Application Note[AN5260]

AN4559, QorIQ T4240 Design Checklist - Application Note[AN4559]

AN5295, QorIQ Serial RapidIO Debug Tips - Application Note[AN5295]

SerDes Configuration and Validation Tool Companion Application Note[AN5119]

AN5102, Initializing the T4240 Interlaken Look-Aside Feature - Application Note[AN5102]

AN5138, Implementing Maximum Load-Step (Δi/Δt) Software for T-Series Microprocessors - Application Note[AN5138]

AN5125, Introduction to Device Trees - Application Note[AN5125]

AN4039, PowerQUICC and QorIQ DDR3 SDRAM Controller Register Setting Considerations - Application Note[AN4039]

AN4584, Differences Between P4080 Rev. 2 and P4080 Rev. 3 - Application Notes[AN4584]

QorIQ^® T4240/T4160/T4080 Multicore Communications Processors

QorIQ^® T4 Family of Processors - Our Highest Performance Processor Family - Brochure[BRT4FAMI]

QorIQ^® T Series - T4240, T4160 and T4080 communications processors - Fact Sheet[T4240T4160FS]Featured

ALTIVECPOWERISAPEM, AltiVec^® Technology Programming Environments Manual[ALTIVECPOWERISAPEM]

FSLNISTCAVP, NIST Crypto Algorithm Validation Program Certifications for NXP^® Cryptographic Accelerators - White Paper[FSLNISTCAVP]

QorIQ^® T Series - T4240, T4160 and T4080 communications processors - Fact SheetFeatured