Freescale Integrates QorIQ and StarCore Technologies for Next-gen Wireless Base Stations

Freescale Semiconductor's P2020 and MSC8156 based AdvancedMC (AMC) reference design is targeted for wireless base station manufacturers that need rapid prototyping and deployment platforms to accelerate development and preserve software investments. The reference design allows service providers to quickly deploy one technology today with the flexibility to scale the capacity at a later date while utilizing the same software.

Freescale’s P2020 and MSC8156 AMC reference design provides a compelling combination of StarCore and Power Architecture technologies and multi-protocol acceleration engines in a single-width AMC form factor to provide a comprehensive Layer 1, 2 and 3 baseband processing platform. The offering allows OEMs to speed time to market and provide a smooth path to advanced wireless standards.

Manufacturers can reuse software across their equipment portfolio due to the scalable nature and software compatibility of the QorIQ processor and StarCore DSP product families.

Freescale's QorIQ P2020 communications processor is a signature member of Freescale's QorIQ product line. The P2020 device integrates two e500 Power Architecture cores, a rich set of high-speed I/O options, security acceleration engine technology and an DDR2/3 memory controller on a 45nm process technology low power platform. Dual cores at 1.2GHz deliver the cost advantages and energy efficiency needed to manage a large amount of control plane and data plane traffic present within networking linecard and baseband channel card equipment.

The MSC8156 DSP delivers flexibility, integration and affordability while answering demand from wireless base station OEMs for ultra-high computational performance for baseband applications. The MSC8156 DSP is an ideal choice for applications including multi-standard wireless base stations, radar systems, video conferencing servers, voice gateways and industrial applications. The device offers a total of 48 GMACs (Giga Multiply and Accumulate) per second of DSP core performance. The embedded MAPLE-B baseband accelerator offers up to 280Msps of FFT throughput, up to 175Msps DFT, 200Mbps at six iterations of Turbo decoding for 3G-LTE and 100Mbps of Viterbi decoding with tail-biting and multi-iterations.

Freescale P2020 and MSC8156 AMC Reference Design

Freescale Semiconductor


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