Date: 25/10/2011

CEVA and Mindspeed to demo LTE base station at 4G World

Mindspeed Technologies Inc. and CEVA Inc have announced that the companies will showcase LTE base station advances based on Mindspeed's Transcede SoC using Trillium LTE Protocol Stacks at 4G World from October 25 -27, 2011 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL. The companies will demonstrate the only commercially available eNodeB picocell reference design based on a single SoC. The design utilizes Mindspeed's carrier-class L1 PHY software and production-grade Transcede SoC enabled by CEVA's DSP technology.

"Small cell base station designs require unparalleled processing capabilities to cope with the huge performance demands of LTE networks, and our communication DSPs play a critical role in achieving this," said Eran Briman, vice president of marketing at CEVA. "This real world LTE base station demonstration using commercially available LTE smartphones clearly illustrates the outstanding performance capabilities of the Transcede family of processors, powered by our industry-leading DSP cores."

Mindspeed says its transcede processor is the first fully-integrated SoC eNodeB solution offering 3GPP LTE Layer 1, Layer 2 and Layer 3 processing with picocell performance and enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to leverage the same software architecture and programming model across the entire family of Transcede processors, and to scale designs from enterprise femtocells and picocells to microcells and other evolutionary form factors.

"Mindspeed pioneered the concept of single-chip SoCs for LTE small cells and chose CEVA as the primary DSP processor for its Transcede family of processors in order to deliver a solution that exceeds the market demand for advanced processing performance, design flexibility and optimal power consumption," said Alan Taylor, director of marketing for the communications convergence processing business unit at Mindspeed. "Collaborating with CEVA has allowed us to address the demand for small cells with a fully-integrated solution that packages Mindspeed's carrier-grade software with significant, multi-layer processing power and hardware acceleration on a single SoC."