Overview
The MSC8154 is a four-core DSP based on
Freescale’s SC3850 StarCore technology
and builds on the success of Freescale’s
MSC8156 DSP. This DSP is specially designed
for base stations, advancing the capabilities
of wireless broadband. The MSC8154 DSP
is specially designed for base stations that
require lower throughputs than those designed
with the MSC8156 DSP, and it delivers
industry-leading performance, leveraging
45 nm process technology in a highly
integrated SoC to provide performance
equivalent to 4 GHz of a single-core
device. The MSC8154 will help equipment
manufacturers and carriers create solutions
and services that enable near-term,
mainstream adoption of next-generation
wireless standards such as 3G-LTE, WiMAX,
HSPA+ and TDD-LTE. The device is designed
to lower system costs even more by
integrating functionality into a single
four-core device that previously required
multiple discrete parts.
The MSC8154 DSP delivers a high level of
performance and integration, combining
four fully programmable new and enhanced
SC3850 DSP cores, each running at up to
1 GHz with an architecture highly optimized
for wireless infrastructure applications.
Developed by Freescale and integrated on
chip, the MAPLE-B baseband accelerator
supports hardware acceleration for Turbo and
Viterbi channel decoding and for DFT/iDFT
and FFT/iFFT algorithms. An internal
RISC-based QUICC Engine subsystem
supports multiple networking protocols
to guarantee reliable data transport over
packet networks while significantly offloading
processing from the DSP cores. The optional
security engine core (SEC) in the MSC8154E
accelerates data plane encryption/decryption
and code protection with minimal DSP core
intervention.
The MSC8154 embeds large internal memory
and supports a variety of advanced, high-
speed interface types, including two RapidIO
interfaces, two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
for network communications, a PCI Express
controller, two DDR controllers for high-speed,
industry standard memory interface and four
multi-channel TDM interfaces.
Digital Signal Processors
MSC8154 Broadband Wireless Access DSP
Advanced 45 nm, four-core DSP for 3G-LTE, TDD-LTE, WiMAX,
3GPP-HSPA and TD-SCDMA
JTAG
DDR Interface 64/32-bit 800 MHz
Four
TDMs
DMA
I/O-Interrupt
Concentrator
UART
Clocks
Timers
Reset
Semaphores
DDR2/DDR3
SDRAM Controller
Class
QUICC Engine
Subsystem
Four TDMs each
supporting 8 E1/ T1
Boot ROM
I2C
Virtual
Interrupts
High-Speed
Serial Interface
SEC
MAPLE-B
Turbo/
Viterbi
FFT/
IFFT
DFT/
IDFT
Two RGMII
SPI
Two
SGMII
M3 Memory
1056 Kbyte
Dual RISC Processors
DDR Interface 64/32-bit 800 MHz
DDR2/DDR3
SDRAM Controller
512 KB L2 Cache/
M2 Memory
SC3850 DSP Core
32 KB L1
I-Cache
32 KB L1
D-Cache
Four DSP Cores at 1 GHz
MSC8154/MSC8154E Block Diagram
MSC8154E
only
CRC
Two Serial RapidIO 1x/4x 3.125
Gbaud
PCI Express 1x/2x/4x
Two SGMII
Other
Modules
Cores
Optional