Ref design suits multi-standard small-cell base stations

Ref design suits multi-standard small-cell base stations

The comprehensive baseband-to-antenna reference design combines the QorIQ Qonverge BSC9131 base station SoC with the company’s RF radio boards, and is a multi-protocol solution that scales across a range of cellular bands to ease developers’ transition from 3G to 4G LTE. The GaAs MMIC devices deployed on the radio boards are the MMZ25332B and MMZ09312B amplifiers by Benetel, which cover multiple bands, including Band 1/WCDMA and Band 13/LTE.

The BSC9131 features a scalable architecture that supports a range of air interfaces, including LTE, LTE-FDD & TDD and WCDMA/CDMA. It combines Power Architecture cores and high-performance StarCore DSPs with Multi-accelerator Platform Engine (MAPLE-B) technology for baseband processing. It also features interconnect fabric and next-node process technology, as well as glueless RFIC communication and antennae interfaces. (BSC9131RDB QorIQ Qonverge ref design board,$900; RF radio board (part number PSC913XRFBD-XXYY, with “XX” and “YY” representing bands supported), $1,700 — available now.)

By Christina Nickolas

Freescale Semiconductor , Austin , TX
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