Marvell Armada XP
Founded in 1995, Marvell Technology Group Ltd. has operations worldwide and approximately 5,700 employees. They are a fabless semiconductor company, shipping over one billion chips a year. In their words:
“Marvell’s expertise in microprocessor architecture and digital signal processing, drives multiple platforms including high volume storage solutions, mobile and wireless, networking, consumer, and green products. Worldclass engineering and mixed-signal design expertise helps Marvell deliver critical building blocks to its customers, giving them the competitive edge to succeed in today’s dynamic market.”
My interest today is the Quad-Core ARMADA XP Series.
http://www.marvell.com/processors/embedded/armada_xp/assets/armada_xp_pb.pdf
The Extreme Performance (XP) series of multicore processors is a quad-core ARM processor designed primarilly for cloud computing applications. The ARMADA XP series integrates four Marvell designed ARM compliant 1.6GHz CPU cores along with a host of I/O peripherals to offer one of the highest levels of integration in the industry.
I am currently seeking out embedded projects that will require this low power CPU installed on XMC or VPX modules for military and defence applications. The ARMADA XP supports multiple SATA, USB and Ethernet ports as well as PCI-e 2.0 Ports and high speed SERDES lanes.
The processor is ideal of high speed multicore processing applications and integrated on the right platform will make a superb embedded processor for harsh environments.
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