Freescale is offering a low-power version of it quad-core QorIQ processor family, the P4040 device manufactured using 45nm process technology.

The new device integrates four 1.5GHz e500mc cores based on Power Architecture.

Each core has a dedicated 128 KB L2 backside cache and access to 2MB of shared frontside L3 cache.

Full processor independence, including the ability to boot and reset each individual e500mc core, is a defining characteristic of the P4040 device.

The processor features dual memory controllers and the same advanced caching, interconnect acceleration and high-speed I/O technologies as the P4080 processor.

The P4040 also incorporates the P4080’s embedded hypervisor and Datapath Acceleration Architecture technologies.

There are also dual memory controllers that support DDR2 or DDR3 memories.

The P4040 integrates I/O technologies including dual 10-Gbps Ethernet (XAUI) controllers and eight 1Gbit/s Ethernet (SGMII) controllers for packetised data processing.

For non-packetised processing, there are three PCI Express v2.0 controllers/ports running at up to 5GHz and two Serial RapidIO controllers/ports running up to 3.125GHz.

The QorIQ P4040 device is scheduled to begin sampling in Q4 2009 and production is planned for 2H 2010.