Freescale Semiconductor has launched a highly integrated base station-on-chip portfolio called QorIQ Qonverge, which is built on advanced heterogeneous multicore technology.
Freescale claims that its new QorIQ Qonverge series is the first scalable family of products that shares the same architecture to address multi-standard requirements spanning from small to large cells.
The QorIQ Qonverge portfolio of base station-on-chip products is based on a common architecture and integrates communications processing, digital signal processing and wireless acceleration technologies into a single system-on-chip in various configurations optimized for next-generation femtocell, picocell, metrocell and macrocell base stations.
QorIQ Qonverge processors combine multiple Power Architecture cores and high-performance StarCore DSPs with a MAPLE multimode baseband accelerator, packet processing acceleration engines, interconnect fabric and next-node process technology.
The portfolio’s products support multiple standards, including GSM, LTE – FDD & TDD, LTE-Advanced, HSPA+, TD-SCDMA and WiMAX.
In addition, the family’s architecture allows support for evolving standards with software upgrades.
QorIQ Qonverge technology can deliver 4x cost reduction and 3x power reduction for LTE + WCDMA macro base stations, and 4x cost and power reductions for LTE + WCDMA pico base stations when compared to wireless infrastructure equipment powered by discrete silicon products, claims the semiconductor company.
