Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions to De­vel­op LTE Base­band IP Us­ing Mul­ti­ple Op­ti­mized Ten­sil­i­ca Dat­a­plane Pro­ces­sors

Ten­sil­i­ca,® Inc. to­day an­nounced that Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, of Dres­den, Ger­many, has li­censed Ten­sil­i­ca's Xten­sa® dat­a­plane pro­ces­sors (DPUs) for an LTE (Long-Term Evo­lu­tion) em­bed­ded broad­band modem de­sign. Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions is an in­de­pen­dent de­sign house de­vel­op­ing mo­bile broad­band so­lu­tions for the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and semi­con­duc­tor in­dus­tries. Many of the em­ploy­ees at Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions pre­vi­ous­ly were em­ployed by NXP's wire­less di­vi­sion and have ex­ten­sive ex­per­tise in high-data-rate wire­less de­sign.

"New de­sign ap­proach­es are need­ed to suc­cess­ful­ly im­ple­ment the LTE and LTE Ad­vanced stan­dards," stat­ed Dr. Peter Mey­er, manag­ing di­rec­tor and head of de­vel­op­ment at Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions "The tra­di­tion­al ap­proach of us­ing hard­wired log­ic for the per­for­mance-in­ten­sive PHY lay­er dat­a­p­ath sim­ply won't work. Be­cause LTE sys­tems run at such high data rates, it would re­quire mil­lions of gates of log­ic de­vel­oped with RTL meth­ods - and that cre­ates a huge ver­i­fi­ca­tion hur­dle. Us­ing Ten­sil­i­ca's au­to­mat­ed pro­ces­sor cre­ation tools we are able to quick­ly gen­er­ate cus­tomized DPUs de­liv­er­ing the per­for­mance levels of cus­tom hard­ware with the pro­gramma­bil­i­ty of a pro­ces­sor."

"Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, with its ex­per­tise in high-speed, low pow­er mo­bile broad­band modems, is slat­ed to be­come a ma­jor play­er in LTE modem semi­con­duc­tor IP li­cens­ing," stat­ed Ma­hesh Venka­tra­man, Ten­sil­i­ca's vice pres­i­dent of mar­ket­ing, ver­ti­cal seg­ments. "Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tion's de­sign team ful­ly re­al­izes the ben­e­fits of cus­tomiz­ing Ten­sil­i­ca's DPUs to meet the re­quire­ments of LTE and LTE Ad­vanced hand­set de­signs, with re­quire­ments for 20-to-150-times the ef­fi­cien­cy on a much low­er pow­er bud­get than cur­rent 3G de­signs."

Ten­sil­i­ca So­lu­tions for Base­band DSP Ap­pli­ca­tions

Ten­sil­i­ca of­fers a va­ri­ety of so­lu­tions for base­band com­mu­ni­ca­tions ap­pli­ca­tions. For de­signs with a soft­ware-cen­tric ar­chi­tec­ture, Ten­sil­i­ca of­fers sev­er­al op­ti­mized DSP ar­chi­tec­tures un­der the Con­nX DSP fam­i­ly la­bel, in­clud­ing the re­cent­ly an­nounced Con­nX Base­band Engine. For de­signs with a more hard­ware-cen­tric ap­proach, Ten­sil­i­ca's cus­tomiz­able dat­a­plane pro­ces­sors are the ide­al build­ing block for cre­at­ing high-per­for­mance high­ly­op­ti­mized func­tion­al blocks with the per­for­mance equiv­a­lent to hard­wired log­ic pared with the flex­i­bil­i­ty of pro­grammable pro­ces­sors.

About Ten­sil­i­ca Dat­a­plane Pro­ces­sors

Ten­sil­i­ca's DPU tech­nol­o­gy al­lows com­pa­nies like Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions to com­bine the best of CPUs (cen­tral pro­cess­ing units) and DSPs (dig­i­tal sig­nal pro­ces­sors) with cus­tom func­tions that pre­vi­ous­ly may have been im­ple­ment­ed in RTL (reg­is­ter trans­fer level) hard­ware. This unique com­bi­na­tion pro­vides 10-to-100-times the per­for­mance of stan­dard CPUs and DSPs.