Maxim Integrated and Freescale Semiconductor have collaborated to showcase a comprehensive LTE/3G picocell base station at the 2013 Mobile World Congress. This small cell base station platform design is field deployable by mobile operators and also serves as a production-ready reference design to accelerate time to market for equipment manufacturers.
The LTE/3G picocell brings together a Freescale BSC9132 base station SoC card, a Maxim MAX2580 RF transceiver card, RF power amplifiers, and network management cards—all in a passively cooled enclosure and weighing in at 6.8kg. The BSC9132 features two Power Architecture e500 cores and two StarCore DSP cores, along with Freescale’s high-performance MAPLE-B2P baseband accelerator platform. The MAX2580 is an RF to Bits, high-dynamic-performance LTE/3G radio transceiver.
The BSC9132 and MAX2580 deliver a complete multi-band, multi-standard small cell solution.
“Freescale’s highly integrated QorIQ Qonverge BSC9132 device provides dramatic improvements in performance, power, and cost in a single, flexible architecture. Our collaboration with Maxim has helped bring to market a highly differentiated solution for outdoor small cell deployments” ,said Stephen Turnbull, Division Marketing Manager for Freescale’s Digital Networking Group.
