QorIQ T4 Family

QorIQ T4240 Reference

Design Board
Compact board designed for evaluating
the T4 family of processors

Overview
The QorIQ T4240 reference design board (T4240RDB) is a compact (1U), highly integrated
board featuring the 24-virtual-core T4240 device. With its 1.67 GHz T4240 processor and
rich input/output (I/O) mix, the board is designed for evaluating the T4240, T4160, and T4080
processors in networking, telecom/datacom, wireless infrastructure and military/aerospace
applications. The T4 processor family can be used for combined control, data path and
application layer processing in routers, switches, gateways and general-purpose embedded
computing systems.

QorIQ T4240RDB
T4240RDB Block Diagram
Block Diagram
x8 PCIe® Slot x4 PCIe Slot
PCIe x8 PCIe x4
2.5/5 GT/s 2.5/5 GT/s

SerDes3 SerDes4 SerDes4 1.5/3 GB/s

SATA Port x1
CHC CHB CHA

1866 MT/s (ABCDEFG) (A) (G) SATA II

DIMM 0
DDR3 Bus
1866 MT/s USB
DIMM 1 480 MB/s
USBx2
x2
DDR3

DDR3 Bus 2.0 USB 2.0 USB

QorIQ T4240
1866 MT/s Processor
DIMM 2
DDR3 Bus 1.67 GHz
RS232 Serial Port
CPLD UART
Altera: IFC (RJ45) x 2
Local Bus
EPM1270F256C5N
SerDes1 SerDes1 SerDes2 SerDes2
SDHC I2C I2C Bus EEPROM
SD Card SD Interface
(ABCD) (EFGH) (ABCD) (EFGH)
2 KB AT24C02C-XHM-B

SGMII Bus SGMII Bus RTC Maxim DS1374

NAND Flash 2 GB 1.25 GB/s 1.25 GB/s
Micron XFI Bus MONITOR IC W83793G
MT29F16G08ABABAWP:B 10.3125 GB/s

NOR Flash 128 MB

Spansion 4 Port 1G BaseT 4 Port 1G BaseT 4 Port 10G SFP+
S29GL01GS10TF1010 Vitesse VSC8664 Vitesse VSC8664 Cortina CS4340

RJ45 RJ45 RJ45 RJ45 RJ45 RJ45 RJ45 RJ45 SPF+ SPF+ SPF+ SPF+
PORT 1 PORT 2 PORT 3 PORT 4 PORT 5 PORT 6 PORT 7 PORT 8 PORT 1 PORT 2 PORT 3 PORT 4
1 3 9 11
5 6 7 8
2 4 10 12

ON Main Board RJ45

QorIQ T4240RDB The T4240RDB supports two PCI Express® RGMII), two Serial RapidIO® 2.0 controllers
slots, as well as an SD/MMC card slot and two SATA 2.0 interfaces.
Board Features
and two USB 2.0 receptacles. These
Processor components, integrated with the T4 family, The T4240 processor supports three 64-bit
• QorIQ T4240 processor, 1.67 GHz core provide an application-specific platform that DDR3 and DDR3L (low power) SDRAM
with 1866 MT/s DDR3 data rate can help you get a jump start on your next memory controllers with ECC support
design. The T4240RDB memory supports running at up to 1867 MHz data rate. It
• Multiple SysClk inputs for generating
6 GB of DDR3 at 1866 MHz, 128 MB of includes two USB 2.0 interfaces (including
various device frequencies
NOR flash, a 2 GB NAND flash and a 2 KB PHY), an SD/MMC interface, a NOR/NAND
Memory I C EEPROM.
2 controller, four I2C and SPI. It also includes
• Three unbuffered DDR3 240-pin uDIMM the accelerator blocks collectively known
modules with ECC (72-bit bus), 6 GB The T4240RDB is pre-loaded with the as the DPAA that offload various tasks from
memory, 1866 MT/s data rate Embedded Linux Essentials for QorIQ
®
the core, including routine packet handling,
processors with data path acceleration security algorithm calculations, compression,
• 128 MB NOR flash, 16-bit
software development kit. This kit includes decompression and pattern matching. In
• 2 GB SLC NAND flash a 64-bit SMP Linux kernel, hugetlbfs for addition, each e6500 core implements the
• 2 KB 24C02 I2C EEPROM applications with a large memory footprint, Freescale AltiVec technology SIMD engine,
user space Data Path Acceleration which achieves DSP-like performance for
• SD connector to interface
Architecture (DPAA) for high-performance math-intensive applications.
PCI Express® packet handling, u-boot, the GCC tool chain
and virtualization support, among many other In addition to the 24-threaded T4240
• PCIe x4 connector
features. This board is also available from processor, the QorIQ T4 family also includes
• PCIe x8 connector the 16-threaded T4160 and the 8-threaded
Nexcom in production volumes. For more
USB 2.0 information, visit [Link]/#QorIQ. T4080 processors. These three family
members offer a performance scaling factor
• Dual Type-A USB slot, connected to
USB PHY About the T4 Processor of 3x within a pin compatible package. The
T4240RDB can be configured to look like a
Ethernet The T4240 processor contains the
T4160 or T4080 reference design board.
• Four 10 GB/s SFP+ ports e6500 core, built on Power Architecture®
technology, offering speeds of 1500–1800
• LAN1–LAN8: Connected to SGMII
MHz. It has a three-level cache hierarchy
PHY-VSC8664
with 32 KB of instruction and data cache
Others per core, 6 MB L2 cache clustered in banks
• LEDs for power and Ethernet link and of four cores allowing efficient sharing of
active code and data within a multicore cluster,
and a 1.5 MB CoreNet platform cache. I/O
• JTAG for debugging
includes 32 SerDes lanes running at up to
• I 2C 10 GHz, multiplexed across four PCI Express
Serial EEPROM: Board identification controllers (up to two at Gen3), up to four
10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces (XFI, XAUI,
Real-time clock
10Gbase-KR or HiGig), up to 16
• ATX power supply 1 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces (SGMII and

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Document Number: T4240RDBFS REV 2