The MSC8154E device is one of the fourth generation Freescale high-end multicore DSP devices that target the broadband wireless base stations and other communications infrastructure with security processing. The MSC8154E is a four-core DSP based on Freescale’s new SC3850 StarCore® technology and designed to advance the capabilities of wireless broadband equipment. It delivers industry-leading performance and power savings, leveraging 45 nm process technology in a highly integrated SoC to provide performance equivalent to a 4GHz single-core device. The MSC8154E will help equipment manufacturers and carriers create solutions and services that enable near-term, mainstream adoption of next-generation wireless standards such as 3G-LTE, WiMAX, HSPA+ and TDD-LTE. The device is designed to lower system costs by integrating functionality into a single device that previously required multiple discrete parts.
The MSC8154E DSP delivers a high level of performance and integration, combining four fully programmable new and enhanced SC3850 DSP cores, each running at up to 1 GHz with an architecture highly optimized for wireless infrastructure applications. Developed by Freescale and integrated on chip, the MAPLE-B baseband accelerator supports hardware acceleration for Turbo and Viterbi channel decoding and for DFT/iDFT and FFT/iFFT algorithms and includes CRC processing. An internal RISC-based QUICC Engine™ subsystem supports multiple networking protocols to guarantee reliable data transport over packet networks while significantly offloading processing from the DSP cores.
The MSC8154E embeds large internal memory and supports a variety of advanced, high-speed interface types, including two RapidIO® interfaces, two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces for network communications, a PCI Express® controller, two DDR controllers for high-speed, industry standard memory interface, four multi-channel TDM interfaces, and a security encryption/decryption processor (SEC).
NOTE: Consult a Freescale Semiconductor sales office or authorized distributor to determine product availability and place an order.
Features
- Four StarCore DSP SC3850 core subsystems operating at up to 1 GHz/8000 MMACS per core and up to 32000 MMACS per device
- Multi accelerator platform engine for baseband (MAPLE-B)
- High-speed, high-bandwidth CLASS fabric arbitrates between the DSP cores and other CLASS masters to M2 memory, M3 memory, DDR controllers, MAPLE-B and the configuration registers
- Two DDR controllers with up to 400 MHz clock (800 MHz data) rate and 32/64-bit DDR2/3 SDRAM data bus
- Dual RISC core QUICC Engine subsystem operating at up to 500 MHz provides parallel packet processing independent of the DSP cores
- HSSI that supports two 4x SerDes ports
- Security engine core (SEC) optimized to process all the cryptographic algorithms associated with IPSec, IKE, SSL/TLS, 3GPP, and LTE
- Four TDM interfaces
- UART and I2C interfaces
- Eight software watchdog timers
- Sixteen 16-bit timers Two 32-bit general purpose timers per core for RTOS support
- I/O interrupt concentrator and virtual interrupt support Eight hardware semaphores
- Thirty two GPIO ports multiplexed with interface signals and IRQ inputs
- Boot options: Ethernet, Serial RapidIO, I2C and SPI
- Three input clocks and five PLLs
- JTAG Test Access Port (TAP) and boundary scan architecture designed to comply with IEEE Std. 1149.1™ profiling and performance monitoring support
- Reduced power dissipation with Wait, Stop and Power Down low-power standby modes
- Optimized power management circuitry
- Technology: CMOS 45 nm SOI technology in 29 mm x 29 mm, 783 ball, FC-PBGA package
Featured Documentation
- MSC8154FS: MSC8154 Broadband Wireless Access DSP
- MSC8154EPB: MSC8154E Product Brief
- MSC8154_ADS_FS: MSC8154 ADS Fact Sheet
- BRDSPPARMETRIC: DSP Product Summary Brochure
Target Applications
- 3G-LTE
- WiMAX
- 3GPP
- 3GPP2
- TD-SCDMA with encryption
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