The P5020 and P5010 high performance, flexible I/O and efficient hardware accelerators enable it to address varied markets from industrial control to high-end control plane and networking applications. High-end industrial applications benefit from its 64-bit ISA support to increase performance for computation-intensive applications. The processors also provide a high performance classic double precision floating point unit and IEEE 1588 support for precision time synchronization. Networking applications like service provider routers and Storage Area Networks benefit from its high speed interfaces like 10 Gigabit Ethernet, PCI express and USB 2.0. Higher levels of connectivity eliminate the need for external bridge chips, thereby reducing BOM costs. Control plane applications utilize serial rapid IO ports for high performance interconnection and the hardware hypervisor enables safe partitioning between control plane and applications/user sandbox. Control plane applications best fit on processors that derive their performance from a lower number of higher performance cores, as this minimizes the need to rework legacy code.