Femtocell Equipment Manufacturers Can Quickly Develop Residential and Enterprise Products with TI’s Femtocell DSP Family

(Product News, 3 Jul 2009)

Texas Instruments Inc. announced a new family of DSPs enabling residential and enterprise femtocell manufacturers and service providers to reduce development time and deliver new products to market quickly. TI’s family of multicore femtocell solutions includes a full portfolio of complementary analog solutions, support for Linux, and software solutions from TI third parties, Continuous Computing and mimoOn. These DSPs provide a complete digital solution for HSPA applications, enabling low cost, fully programmable solutions and thus allowing OEMs (original equipment manufacturer) to offer reliable and adaptable femtocell products to market. Using the software reference design available from Continuous Computing and mimoOn, which provides customers with software for Layer 1, 2 and 3 wireless protocol processing, OEMs can quickly develop femtocell products to provide increased wireless connectivity for streaming video files, interactive gaming, music sharing and other bandwidth-intense multimedia tasks.

TI’s femtocell product family includes the TMS320TCI6485 with two high-performance 850MHz C64x+ DSP cores delivering 1.7GHz of overall performance for residential femtocell applications, and the TMS320TCI6489 which includes three 850MHz C64x DSPs delivering 2.55 GHz of performance for enterprise or “super femto” applications. Scaling to meet the varied global requirements of the residential and enterprise market segments, TI’s TCI6485 supports up to eight users while the TCI6489 supports up to 32 users. The entire product family is compatible with all major 2G/3G and 4G systems including GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX and LTE, and furthermore, is code compatible with other TI DSPs for the wireless infrastructure market, where any previous investments in macro or pico base stations can be reused. TI’s longstanding incumbency in the wireless infrastructure space combined with its robust DSP solutions developed specifically for the femtocell market allow OEMs to develop products for this emerging market with confidence.