Motorola PowerPC System on Chip

Motorola just let us know the details of its new e500 PowerPC Book E core at the Embedded Processor Forum . The e500 core targets a clock rate of 800MHz in Motorola's HiPerMOS7 (HiP7) 0.13 um CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) processor platform, but keeps the core area down to 6 square millimeters and power down to 3mW/MHz. Motorola expects the e500 core to provide 1800 Dhrystone 2.1 MIPS processing power at 800 MHz. The e500 core will initially be offered for industrial temperature applications and automotive applications in the first half of 2002. Motorola says future products based on the e500 core should be capable of lower-voltage operation. The down and dirty on the chip core can be found at Motorola's site .