Texas Instruments claims it has created the industry's first wireless basestation SoC with the 4G class performance required to meet the increase in data. The TMS320TCI6616 is based on the company'sTMS320C66x DSP generation and KeyStone multi-core architecture. It delivers over double the performance of any 3G or 4G SoC in the market, It can be used for every standard, including WCDMA chip rate and LTE bit rate to simplify the migration from 3G to 4G, with no FPGA or ASIC required, claims the company. It also boasts the industry's first multi-core DSP that processes both fixed- and floating-point math, to simplify wireless basestation software design. The SoC has an autonomous packet processing engine and programmable DSPs. Implemented as configurable coprocessors, the SoC's PHYs enable software defined radio which allows operators to rationally migrate to emerging standards without needing external components.
