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.

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Product Details

Block Diagram

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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

Comparison Table

	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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