Maxim and Freescale together develop a complete multi-band, multi-standard small cell solution.
Maxim Integrated Products and Freescale Semiconductor have collaborated to develop a comprehensive LTE/3G picocell base station. The innovative 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.
Seen as ideal for outdoor public access or enterprise small cell applications, 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 work seamlessly to deliver a complete multi-band, multi-standard small cell solution.
Stephen Turnbull, division marketing manager for Freescale’s Digital Networking Group, said, “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.”
