High-performance DSP features four cores

The MSC8154 four-core DSP yields up to 32 GMACS of 16-bit performance and has dual sRIO, dual SGMII, dual DDR-3, and PCIe high-speed interfaces. The IC has 1 Gbyte of associated 64-bit-wide DDR3 memory split into two banks.

The chip is built using a 45-nm process and is pin- and code-compatible with the MSC8156 six-core device. The PBGA783 packaged IC has a multiaccelerator engine for baseband, called MAPLE-B, to support the 3G-LTE, TDD-LTE, TD-SCDMA and WiMAX standards, as well as HSPA+. ($165 ea/10,000 — available October.)

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