Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Freescale DSP enhances Huawei TD-SCDMA base station performance


Thanks to Freescale Semiconductor and its MSC8156 digital signal processor (DSP) solution, Huawei was able to take the performance of its TD-SCDMA wireless networks to new heights, allowing for the delivery of scalable, low-cost, energy-efficient base stations.


Freescake's MSC8156 DSP combines six fully-programmable enhanced 1 GHz SC3850 DSP cores to provide a high level of performance and integration. Its MAPLE-B accelerator is integrated on-chip and supports hardware acceleration for Turbo and Viterbi channel decoding as well as the DFT/iDFT and FFT/iFFT algorithms. It supports multiple networking protocols through its internal RISC-based QUICC engine subsystem, ensuring data is reliably transported through packet networks and significantly offloading processing from the DSP cores.

In addition to having a large embedded internal memory, the MSC8156 supports a variety of advanced high-speed interface types. It has two RapidIO interfaces, two gigabit Ethernet interfaces for network communications, a PCI Express controller, two DDR controllers for high-speed, industry standard memory interface, and four multi-channel TDM interfaces. Its pin compatibility with all MSC825x and MSC815x DSP devices grant the MSC8156 a high degree of scalability.

Huawei is committed to offering customer-centric solutions and products,” said Chen Xi, chief technology officer of Huawei’s Wireless Network Business Unit, ” which leverage the performance and programmability of Freescale’s MSC8156 DSP.”

According to Mr. Xi, Freescale's highly efficient DSP cores and accelerators significantly enhanced overall base station efficiency. Huawei gained the ability to boost system flexibility and provide the industry’s highest number of TD-SCDMA carrier waves in a base station.”

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