MSC8156 Multicore DSP

Freescale Semiconductor

Description:

The MSC8156E is a six-core DSP based on Freescale's new SC3850 StarCore® technology and designed to advance the capabilities of wireless broadband equipment. It delivers industry-leading performance and power savings, leveraging 45 nm process technology in a highly integrated SoC to provide performance equivalent to six gigahertz of a single core device. The MSC8156E will help equipment manufacturers and carriers create solutions and services that enable near-term, mainstream adoption of next-generation wireless standards such as 3G-LTE, WiMAX, HSPA+ and TDD-LTE. The device is designed to lower system costs by integrating functionality into a single device that previously required multiple discrete parts.

The MSC8156E DSP delivers a high level of performance and integration, combining six fully programmable new and enhanced SC3850 DSP cores, each running at up to 1 GHz with an architecture highly optimized for wireless infrastructure applications. Developed by Freescale and integrated on chip, the MAPLE-B baseband accelerator supports hardware acceleration for Turbo and Viterbi channel decoding and for DFT/iDFT and FFT/iFFT algorithms. In addition, the MSC8156E embeds large internal memory and supports a variety of advanced, high-speed interface types, including two RapidIO® interfaces.

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Semiconductors > ASSPs > DSPs