The MPC8544E processor is designed to offer a wide range of high-speed connectivity options, including Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) interfaces with SGMII support and multiple PCI Express® connections. The device is also designed to provide support for legacy PowerQUICC III interfaces such as PCI, I2C, dual universal asynchronous receiver/transmitters (DUART), and local bus connections. These processors are also designed to feature a double data rate (DDR2) memory controller along with enhanced GigE support, v2 e500 double precision floating point, and the field proven 90 nm PowerQUICC III integrated security engines on the ‘E’ versions.

