Mindspeed 3G/4G/LTE Baseband Basestation Solution Uses Latest ARM Cortex A9 MPCore in Advanced 40-Nanometer Process Technology
January 25 2010 - 8:00AM
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Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:MSPD), a leading supplier
of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications,
today announced it has used ARM’s latest high-performance,
power-efficient ARM® Cortex™ A9 MPCore™ processor architecture for
packet processing in the company’s new Transcede™ family of
wireless baseband processors. Mindspeed®’s Transcede family enables
a new class of high-performance, low-power, software-programmable
devices that solve the computational challenges presented by
next-generation mobile networks.
One of the first devices of its kind to be manufactured in
40-nanometer complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process
technology, Mindspeed’s Transcede 4000 device includes a
Quad-MPCore and a Dual-MPCore Cortex A9, which allows the Transcede
4000 to deliver the performance, flexibility and low power
consumption required for next-generation mobile basestations. The
device is the first in a planned family of system-on-chip (SoC)
solutions that will use the Cortex A9 and support a wide range of
processing needs in mobile networks, from femtocells to macrocells,
across all required air interface standards, and spanning a wide
range of price and performance points.
“The ARM Cortex A9 MPCore is an excellent choice for the
Transcede 4000 baseband processor,” said Tom Medrek, senior vice
president and general manager of Mindspeed’s Multiservice Access
business unit. “The Cortex A9 delivers industry-leading performance
per megahertz while maintaining very low power consumption, and is
ideally suited for compute-intensive next-generation mobile network
applications. Having the Cortex A9 MPCore co-located on the same
SoC as the DSP processors facilitates a very low-latency
basestation implementation, perfect for real-time applications over
mobile networks such as voice-over-IP and gaming.”
“Mindspeed has been an ARM Partner for many years and their
Transcede 4000 baseband processor is the first to include six
high-performance Cortex-A9 processors. This solution is both a
natural progression and recognition of the enterprise class
performance offered with a mobile power profile available with the
ARM architecture,” said Ian Drew, EVP marketing, ARM. “This latest
deployment of our Cortex-A9 processor further expands ARM’s market
reach into enterprise markets like networking and the wireless
infrastructure market.”
Mindspeed’s Transcede 4000 family of application-specific
baseband processor SoCs combine 48 giga multiplications and
accumulations per second (GMACs) of DSP performance with 9000
Dhrystone million instructions per second (DMIPS) of reduced
instruction set computer (RISC) processing performance. This
processing performance allows the physical and medium access
control layers to be co-located on a single SoC, delivering the
lowest latency possible. The Transcede 4000 also delivers a high
level of application-specific system integration by including the
latest, industry-standard common public radio interface (CPRI)
functionality, plus high-speed sRIO and PCI express I/O. On-chip
hardware acceleration for forward error correction (FEC) and
encryption further reduce the overall system cost.
About Mindspeed Technologies
Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and sells
semiconductor solutions for communications applications in the
wireline and wireless network infrastructure, which includes
today's separate but interrelated and converging enterprise,
broadband access, metropolitan and wide area networks. Our products
are classified into three focused product families: multiservice
access, high-performance analog and wide area networking
communications. Our products are sold to original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs) for use in a variety of network infrastructure
equipment, including voice and media gateways, high-speed routers,
switches, access multiplexers, cross-connect systems, add-drop
multiplexers, digital loop carrier equipment, IP private branch
exchanges (PBXs), optical modules, broadcast video systems and
wireless basestation equipment.
To learn more, visit us at www.mindspeed.com.
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