Freescale’s PowerQUICC, Not Just for Communications

PowerQUICC has been a mainstay in the communications market for several years. Customers have found uses for it elsewhere. Last week Freescale announced a formal program to target industrial control and general purpose applications with PowerQUICC.

PowerQUICC is the PowerPC with a communications core added. The Industrial market is moving toward Ethernet-based networks. Freescale is offering a standard product and a development system with protocol stacks for the industrial control market. This is an alternative to proprietary ASICs and FPGA solutions. This will reduce the time to market as well as offering lower cost.

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Freescale is leveraging its experience and knowledge in communications and networking for the industrial control market. This streamlined platform for industrial markets provides the kind of flexibility, programmability, and price points that solutions relying on ASICs and multi-chip solutions cannot deliver. The security and reliability that made PowerQUICC technology pervasive in networking markets should translate well to Industrial markets.