29 January 2010

ZTE Evaluates Mindspeed ARM Cortex Based Transcede 4000

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.has confirmed that its ARM Cortex based Transcede 4000 wireless baseband processor is being evaluated by ZTE as a potential solution for its next-generation wideband code-division multiple access (W-CDMA), long term evolution (LTE) and WiMAX base station products.

"Mindspeed T4000 SoC introduces an innovative approach to solving the challenge of designing cost and power effective LTE BBU solutions." Said Mr Zhang Rui, Senior Director of ZTE’s LTE R&D group, "ZTE is actively evaluating the benefits of Transcede 4000 in the context of our baseband and L2 software, as we believe application specific SoCs have the potential to become the main stream approach to address the power/cost/performance needs of next generation multi-platform, multi-standard mobile networks."

The Transcede SoC integrates 26 processing elements into a single device. This includes two ARM Cortex A9 multi-core symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processors, 10 CEVA DSPs and 10 DSP accelerators that support the complete W-CDMA, LTE or WiMax (Layers 1, 2 and above) processing needs of single- and multi-sector base stations.

Transcede can deliver three sectors of LTE processing in a single device, while still providing substantial processing headroom, allowing manufactures to deploy their own value-added features as part of an overall Transcede-based solution, the company said.