MontaVista says it is porting its embedded Linux distribution and toolkit to Motorola's PowerQUICC III processors such as the MPC8540 and MPC8560 found in network routers and switches and control-plane and data-plane apps. MontaVista claims Motorola's PowerQUICC III processors offer architectural flexibility and high integration in both wired and wireless… communications applications.

The PowerQUICC III processors use a system-on-chip (SoC) architecture built around a Book E PowerPC e500 core. They include 256KB on-chip L2 cache memory and an enhanced Communications Processor Module (CPM), and they support RapidIO interconnect technology, PCI/PCI-X, dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, and Double Data Rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM). The PowerQUICC processor family includes the MPC8540 and MPC8560 processors with RapidIO technology and the new MPC8555 with integrated security.

MontaVista Linux Professional Edition (Pro) contains cross-development tools for system and application development and hundreds of deployable utilities, libraries, drivers, and other run-time components.

“MontaVista Linux features, such as real-time functionality, high availability support, and rich networking capabilities further enhance the processing performance and integrated communications capabilities of PowerQUICC III processors,” commented David Perkins, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola's Networking and Computing Systems Group.

Jim Ready, founder and CEO of MontaVista, said: “Our combined offering will allow equipment manufacturers in the highly competitive communications industry to speed time-to-market and time-to-money for new advanced applications.”

 
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