Freescale and ArrayComm join forces on WiMAX reference design

摘要

Freescale Semiconductor and ArrayComm LLC have joined to develop a reference design intended to speed and simplify the creation of high-performance WiMAX base station equipment. It combines ArrayComm''s multi antenna signal processing software (A-MAS™) with Freescale''s high-performance MSC8144 quad-core DSP. The reference design leverages the high performance of the MSC8144 DSP to handle both Media Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) processing. Equipment based on the referenec is optimized to deliver high frequencies, superior channel density and low operating costs. Compared with current generations of WiMAX base station equipment systems, the companies claim that products based on the combined solution are expected to offer two to four times greater coverage, more than doubled data rates, and as much as a fourfold increase in capacity for 802.16/WiMAX networks.