QUICC
The QUICC was a Motorola 68k -based microcontroller made by Freescale Semiconductor, targeted at the telecommunications market. It lends its name to a family of successor chips called PowerQUICC.
History
The original QUICC was the Motorola 68360, based on the MC68302. It was followed by the PowerPC-based PowerQUICC I, PowerQUICC II, PowerQUICC II+ and PowerQUICC III.Applications
QUICC chips form the core of many Motorola Cellular Base stations.Many PowerQUICC II+ designs now have SATA controllers for SAN based applications.
PowerQUICC CPUs/boards come with a Linux environment. Freescale also offers MQX for PPC.