Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries.

Their unparalleled portfolio of power management solutions, microprocessors, microcontrollers, sensors, radio frequency semiconductors, analog and mixed signal circuits and software technologies are embedded in products used around the world.

The MCF5407 is the first standard product to implement the Version 4 ColdFire microprocessor core. The V4 microarchitecture implements a number of advanced techniques, including a Harvard memory architecture, branch cache acceleration logic, and limited superscalar support (dual-instruction issue), which contribute to the 316 (Dhrystone 2.1) MIPS performance level. Increasing the internal speed of the core also allows higher performance while providing the system designer with an easy-to-use lower speed system interface. The processor complex frequency is an integer multiple, 3 to 6 times, of the external bus frequency. The core clock can be stopped to support a low-power mode in the MCF5407.