Industry’s most advanced multi core processor for LTE base stations?
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NetLogic Microsystems has launched what it claims is the industry's most advanced multi core processor for LTE and LTE advanced base stations. According to vice president of marketing Chris O'Reilly, the XLP316L is the only quad issue, quad threaded processor with superscalar out of order execution capabilities that are suited to address the most demanding needs of LTE mobile infrastructure.
The device has a high performance floating point unit and a low latency tri level cache architecture to deliver data plane and control plane performance. It integrates advanced wireless security technologies to support SNOW3G and KASUMI protocols, multiple lanes of Serial Rapid I/O (SRIO) interfaces and IEEE 1588v2 hardware time stamping for Ethernet backhaul timing synchronisation.
The processor optimises 16 NXCPUs and will be manufactured in the advanced 40nm process. It is designed to offer 'unparalleled' performance of 20Gb/s and 30million pps for converged data plane and control plane processing. According to NetLogic, the 16 NXCPUs are fully cache and memory coherent for software applications to run in Symmetric Multi Processing or Asymmetric Multi Processing modes.
"The combination of superior processor cores and scalability to 16 NXCPUs makes the XLP316L the industry's highest performance multi core communications processor for OEMs developing next generation LTE mobile infrastructure," said O' Reilly.
