Date: 10/11/2010

Texas Instruments releases high power DSP SoC for handling 4G data

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has released DSP power packed SoC chip for wireless base station applications of 4G specs. The TMS320TCI6616 SoC is based on TI's new TMS320C66x digital signal processor (DSP) generation using TI's new KeyStone multicore architecture, and delivers more than double the performance of any 3G/4G SoC in the market, claims TI. The TCI6616 packs PHY, an autonomous packet processing engine and programmable DSPs.

The Software Defined Radio (SDR) of the PHY part of chip is standards neutral and the autonomous packet processing in the TCI6616 manages packets from both core and radio networks.
TI says, together these configurable coprocessors, which target all major wireless standards, yield the performance equivalent of over 250 DSPs. TI also boasts TCI6616 offers five times more processing performance than any other DSPs, as seen in the independent BDTI benchmarks.

"Our TCI6616 SoC is going to shake things up as there is no other base station technology in the market that solves operators' challenges like ours," said Brian Glinsman, general manager of TI's communications infrastructure business. "We are delivering on all fronts of performance, price and innovation. TI's PHY technology, packet coprocessor and multiple DSP cores work together to provide developers a SoC with immense compute power ideally suited for the challenges of 4G networks."

On the C66x:
"Our new power-efficient C66x multicore devices are an aggressive game changer, providing developers with a cost effective solution and unprecedented levels of performance to match the needs of the industry and our customers," is another comment by TI's executive.