Date: 30/08/2010

3G/4G/LTE wireless baseband processors from Mindspeed

Mindspeed Technologies, supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, has presented an architectural overview of the Transcede family of 3G/4G/long-term evolution (LTE) wireless baseband processors entitled "Transcede: Solving 4G Challenges for Pico, Micro and Macrocell Platforms,"at the HOT CHIPS 22 conference.

"The increasing use of smart phones and the surge of mobile video applications are key contributors to the network capacity crunch that many 3G subscribers are experiencing," said Johnston. "3G and 4G network operators are looking to migrate to a more flexible cellular landscape, which can accommodate compact base stations, such as microcells, picocells and metro femtocells. Mindspeed has designed the Transcede family of baseband processors to enable tomorrow's network architects to deploy powerful 4G macrocells and 'small cells,' which are built on a common framework."

The Transcede family of SoCs integrates a 26 programmable processors into a single device, including two ARM Cortex A9 multi-core symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processors, ten CEVA digital signal processors (DSPs) and ten DSP accelerators that support wideband code-division multiple access (W-CDMA), LTE or WiMAX (Layers 1, 2 and above) processing needs of single- and multi-sector base stations. These SoCs can deliver three sectors of LTE processing in a single device.

The Transcede family of wireless baseband processors support wireless standards in China such as TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE.

For more information visit: http://www.mindspeed.com/