Mindspeed and CEVA Partner to Bring SDR Technology to LTE Infrastructure Market

CEVA Inc. and Mindspeed Technologies Inc., a supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, are collaborating to bring the benefits of software-defined radio (SDR) technology to the wireless infrastructure equipment market.

Mindspeed has selected the CEVA-XC323 communication processor to further improve the performance and flexibility of its Transcede 4G wireless baseband solutions. Mindspeed's current generation of Transcede 3G/4G wireless solutions utilizes the CEVA-X1641 DSP to deliver a high-performance, multi-core platform that offers the wireless industry a superior, cost-efficient processor alternative to incumbent infrastructure VLIW DSPs, such as those offered by Texas Instruments. By upgrading to the CEVA-XC323 DSP, Mindspeed enables Transcede customers to apply software-defined radio technologies to improve performance, flexibility and time-to-market for their infrastructure processor designs, while maintaining full software compatibility with previous Transcede designs.

The CEVA-XC323 is scalable to address the complete range of cell site solutions required by network operators, including femtocells, picocells, microcells and macrocells. Its flexible architecture provides efficient support for both legacy and next-generation wireless standards such as WCDMA, HSPA, WiMAX, LTE and LTE-A. In addition, the core incorporates extensive support for wireless infrastructure control plane processing, typically handled by separate processors.

A new class of high-performance silicon, Mindspeed's Transcede family of SoCs can deliver three sectors of LTE processing in a single device and enables the first 64-user "picocell on a chip." At the same time, it provides substantial processing headroom using a modular software approach that allows manufacturers to incorporate their own proprietary, value-added features to a standard eNodeB implementation, such as network listening for base station self-optimization and auto-configuration. The solution uses an innovative, task-based hardware architecture model that enables software developed on one Transcede device to be ported to other products within the Transcede family across the full range of system platforms, including enterprise femtocell, picocell (indoor and outdoor), microcell and macrocell base stations.

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