At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Texas Instruments (TI) in collaboration with Azcom Technology have announced the availability of a new small cell base station platform focused on 3G and 4G high speed data systems. Based on TI's KeyStone multicore architecture and TMS320C66x digital signal processor (DSP) core, the TMDXSCBP6616X supports multi-carrier HSPA+ systems as well as full-rate, 20MHz LTE systems using multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) and receiver algorithms.
The new base station platform consists of the following technology from TI:
- TCI6616 System-on-Chip (SoC) for PHY and Layer 2 processing
- C6A8167 Integra DSP+ARM processor for Layer 3 processing;
- GC5330 transmit/receive processor for digital radio front-end processing;
- NaviLink 6.0 (NL5550) solution GPS for clock synchronization.
For RF development, the platform connects directly to TI's upcoming TSW3725 analog/RF platform, which is available separately.
Available in 2Q11 the TMDXSCBP6616X will be priced at $4,495.