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Freescale Semiconductor has introduced a multicore processor for the design of data intensive 4G basestaions.
The company has added FPGA and DSP elements to its QorIQ processor to create the system-on-chip device it has dubbed Qonverge.
A feature of the QorIQ-based platform is its scalability, which means it can be used in sytems of different complexities ranging from femtocells up to macrocell basestations all on a common architecture.
The multicore QorIQ processor, which is based on the Power Architecture, is integrated with StarCore DSPs with a MAPLE multimode baseband accelerator and packet processing cores.
There is full support for multiple standards including LTE – FDD & TDD, LTE-Advanced, HSPA+, TD-SCDMA and WiMAX.
The first products in Freescale’s QorIQ Qonverge multicore portfolio are built in 45nm process technology and will be available in the second half of 2011.
The products are the PSC9130/PSC9131 femto SoCs and PSC9132 picocell/Enterprise femto SoC devices.
Freescale plans to introduce portfolio members targeting larger cell (metro and macro) base stations built in 28-nm process technology later this year.
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