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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Couple of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">t</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">houghts</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, is that according to Freescale specs, the QE can only s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">u</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">pport</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> TWO 100</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">0Mbit end points.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> A</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">nd that is assuming RAW traffic, not protocol layer processing.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">S</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ince the 8360E has two QUICC Engines, that is only 1000Mbits data per Engine.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Are you intending to get 1000Mbits T</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">X</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> and R</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">X</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> on each engine?</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I think in reality you will be capped at 1000Mbit aggregate in the RX and TX</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">.</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I could be wrong, but you migh</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">t want to run that past a Freescale FAE, do you have the name of your co</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">nt</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">act for your area?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">This is assuming that you are running at the full speed of the MPC8360E</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, i.e</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">b</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">oth</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">QUICC</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">engines probably pushing 500Mhz</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">. You</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ll also need to probably be running DDR2 RAM</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">at</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> MAX speed to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">achieve</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">these rates, as each</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">k</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">buf</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">will have to be</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">dma</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">d out to external memory</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">.</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">A</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ll the early dev boards by Freescale only used DDR1.</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">As well you</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ll want to be sure your Coherent System Bus</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"><CSB></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">speed is as near max, i.e.</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">300-333Mhz.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">W</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">hat clock speeds / Frequency of chip are you using to test this?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">As well</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">which driver are you using with this test</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">A</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">s a HW designer</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">for these</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">boards</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">and driver programmer</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">am just curious what your HW is looking</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">/</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">configured</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> like?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I want to realize the high speed TCP package on GETH of MPC8360E,I would like the speed on both UCC1 and UCC2 for both send</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> and receive TCP package(big package) up to 1000M bits/sec, so the total internet speed is 4000M bits/sec for MPC8360E.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I tested the internet performance by IPERF test software with the condition that the core cpu deal with the TCP package,without microco</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">de. I config the UCC2 down, config UCC1 to send package out to an server PC,no receive,the speed for UCC1 just only sending package is about 300M bits/sec, and CPU is 100% used. This speed is so slow, is too slow. If I send and recieve at the same time, t</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">h</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">e speed is much slower, if I make the UCC2 up, the speed is much slower and slower.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I do not know how to incrase the internet speed for MPC8360E, somebody told me, we must use the microcode for QUICC ENGINE. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">My question is that where can I download the</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">microcode for QUICC ENGINE and how to use it? Whether or not this microcode can help me to realize the 4000M bits/sec for TCP package?</FONT></SPAN></P>
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