Both the standard PPC FPU and the e500v2 FPU can handle double precision floats. Or what do you mean?
> FreeScale has SoCs with a proper FPU and similar price and performance on sale
True, but I suspect that QorIQ T1 wasn't available when Tabor idea was born and design process started. Nevertheless, they could have used a Mamba SoC from APM's PPC465-based PacketPro family instead.
