Freescale DSP Family Delivers New Levels of Performance for the Next Wave of Wireless Base Stations

Freescale Semiconductor announced two next-generation products that deliver more than twice the throughput of their industry-leading predecessor. The MSC8157 product supports a broad array of 3G and 4G wireless standards, while the MSC8158 is cost-optimized to enable more efficient and higher throughput deployments for WCDMA networks. Both products help lower bill of materials costs by integrating technologies that eliminate the need for additional, costly ASICs and FPGAs required in competing solutions.Freescale’s new MSC8157 and MSC8158 products are the next generation of the widely deployed MSC8156 DSP. The new DSPs are based on Freescale’s SC3850 core running at 1.2 Ghz, which recently earned the highest BDTIsimMark2000™ fixed-point performance score of any DSP architecture tested to date by independent signal-processing firm Berkley Design Technology, Inc (BDTI).

“With the introduction of the MSC8157/58 product family, Freescale leverages its deep understanding of wireless networking technology to address the needs of service providers to dramatically reduce network costs while increasing bandwidth,” said Lisa Su, senior vice president and general manager of Freescale’s Networking and Multimedia Group. “These new products balance leadership performance, cost and energy efficiency to meet the needs of next-generation 3G/4G networks.”