Freescale samples first QorIQ Qonverge devices
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Freescale Semiconductor has announced it is now sampling the first basestation on chip products built on its QorIQ Qonverge multimode platform.
The new PSC9132 system on chip for picocell and PSC9130/31 SoCs for femtocell base stations share a single, scalable architecture that simultaneously supports multiple air interfaces. According to the company, the devices will provide operators and OEMs 'future proof', highly integrated heterogeneous solutions and help minimise power consumption, cost and design time.
The range is designed to offer a scalable line of processors built on the same architecture that spans from small to large cell base stations. The platform allows software to be reused regardless of cell size and common hardware, software architecture and tools can be leveraged.
The first available QorIQ Qonverge processors are the PSC9130/31 femtocell SoCs (for eight to 16 simultaneous users) and PSC9132 picocell/enterprise SoC devices (for up to 100 simultaneous users). The processors support a range of air interfaces and incorporate glueless rfic communication and antennae interfaces, which eliminate the need for additional chips such as fpgas. The PSC913x range also provides support for GPS synchronisation and 2G/3G sniffing in a single device.
"Availability of the first QorIQ Qonverge products is a milestone for the wireless industry, which is in dire need of innovative new solutions to address challenging power requirements and exploding demand for additional bandwidth," said Scott Aylor, director and general manager of Freescale's Wireless Access Division. "Freescale's QorIQ Qonverge portfolio offers unprecedented scalability and software compatibility, giving customers flexibility, reduced cost and design time savings as they move up to larger capacity systems."
The new SoCs are built on Power Architecture cores, programmable StarCore dsp technology and baseband hardware acceleration engines already deployed in multiple LTE macrocell base stations around the world.
By leveraging StarCore SC3850 dsp and Power Architecture e500 mpu cores, Freescale says the new SoCs are offload Layer 2 processing and above to mpu cores instead of dsp cores, delivering significant efficiency advantages.
