TM Freescale™ and the Freescale logo are trademarks of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. © Freescale Semiconductor, Inc The Power Architecture and Power.org word marks and the Power and Power.org logos and related marks are trademarks and service marks licensed by Power.org. Embedded Linux Conference 2008 Adding Framebuffer support to Freescale SoCs Apr 17, 2008 York Sun, Ben Eckermann Freescale Semiconductor

TM Freescale™ and the Freescale logo are trademarks of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. © Freescale Semiconductor, Inc The Power Architecture and Power.org word marks and the Power and Power.org logos and related marks are trademarks and service marks licensed by Power.org. 2 Video to the Power of 5 ► 3 Planes of images Bottom plane: PowerPoint presentation Middle plane: 2 AOI (Areas of Interest) decoding video Top plane: 2 more AOI with 2 more videos Total of 5 AOI, all operating independently ► All running under Linux ® Mplayer for video decode (utilizing AltiVec™ technology)‏ Separate Linux Framebuffer per AOI ► DIU hardware acceleration Per-pixel alpha blending handled by DIU (hardware)‏ AOI Framebuffers have no concept of physical screen location or blending

TM Freescale™ and the Freescale logo are trademarks of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. © Freescale Semiconductor, Inc The Power Architecture and Power.org word marks and the Power and Power.org logos and related marks are trademarks and service marks licensed by Power.org. 3 MPC8610 Integrated Host Processor MPX Coherency Module MPX Bus DDR/DDR2 Memory Controller Enhanced Local Bus 2 x DUART 2 x I 2 C, 32 x GPIO SPI Timers Ext Interrupt 4 ch DMA x8 PCI Express® On-chip Switch 2 x SSI I 2 S/AC97 Audio LCD Controller x4 PCI Express® 4 ch DMA PCI On-chip Switch 32 KB I-Cache e600 Core 256 KB L2 32 KB D-Cache 2 x FIR/SIR IrDA Target Applications: Robotic vision and navigation Aerospace/defense display, control and image processing Kiosks with image processing Multi-function printers and scanners Single-board computers e600 Power Architecture™ CPU 667 MHz – 1.33 GHz e600 core 256 KB on-chip backside L2 Cache with ECC AltiVec® vector processor for image processing Double precision FPU, 4 x integer units Interfaces and Features DDR/DDR2 controller, 64/32-bit, MHz (ECC)‏ LCD controller, 24 bit/pixel, 60 Hz refresh Up to SXGA (1280 x 1024) resolution 3 planes (XGA) + 1 cursor plane 2-I 2 S/AC97 audio ports 2-PCI-Express® (x1/x2/x4/x8; x1/x2/x4)‏ PCI 2.2, 32-bit, 33/66 MHz Enhanced local bus, 32-bit, to 133 MHz (ROM, NAND, NOR)‏ 2-I 2 C, 2-DUART, 4 channels each, 115 kb/s 2- Fast/Serial IrDA channels, 4 Mb/s 2-DMA, 4 channels each Serial peripheral interface (SPI), 4 to 16/32-bit characters 32-GPIO, 16 dedicated, 16 multiplexed Machine check external interrupt Watchdog and 2-global timers Power, Package, Technology, Schedule 15 W max at 1066 MHz, Tj=105C, 0.95V 11.5 W max at 667 MHz, Tj=105C, 0.95V 783 FC-PBGA, 90 nm SOI, RoHS compliant Rev 1.0 Samples 4Q-07, Production 1H-08 No known Export Restrictions for MPC8610, evaluation board or Linux® BSP freescale.com/imageprocessor

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