In summary, the MPC8306, MPC8306S and MPC8309 PowerQUICC II Pro processors provide high quality DMIPS/MHz performance. Yielding an impressive 1.99 DMIPS/MHz delivers higher performance at lower frequency, and 1 W typical power dissipation enables lower cost, fanless designs. The MPC8306 and MPC8309 are supported with Linux, the MQX real-time operating system, as well as CodeWarrior for debug and a host of cost-effective development tools. Based on NXP’s e300 processor core, these versatile processors are backward compatible with legacy PowerQUICC I and II solutions to ease the migration to higher performance I/O peripherals and DDR2 memory, as well as industrial interfaces like ProfiBUS and FlexCAN. With a low starting cost and sub-1 W power, these processors enable users to reduce system design complexity and BOM cost while improving overall performance and scalability.