Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Freescale Semiconductor | Subject: MSC8112 and MSC8113
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 22 May 2008
Multicore DSP range offers scalable
processing
Dual- and triple-core DSPs are optimised for wireless infrastructure, media processing blades, telecomms IPBX infrastructure and media gateways.
Developers and designers of unified communications systems can leverage the computing power and flexibility of two advanced Freescale DSP devices based on high-performance StarCore technology Extending the reach of the Freescale quad-core MSC812X family of DSPs, the dual- and triple-core MSC8112 and MSC8113 devices provide a lower cost, pin-compatible and lower power solution featuring direct Ethernet interface technology and up to four independent TDM modules
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The MSC8112 and MSC8113 are optimised for wireless infrastructure, media processing blades, telecomms IPBX infrastructure and media gateways.
The devices can be used for general DSP applications requiring performance ranges from 600 to 1200MCPS with the added benefit of integrated Ethernet interfaces.
Using the MSC811x family, designers can migrate their software across multiple product development programs with little to no incremental cost.
Pin-compatibility with Freescale's workhorse MSC8122 helps optimise system design flexibility.
The products' Ethernet connectivity and ability to support up to 30 complex or 60 high-density voice channels positions them for design into any media-over-IP application in small to medium business systems.
Preserving existing software development, the portfolio bridges the performance range from the MSC71XX family to the MSC81XX.
Ethernet has become the de-facto low cost pervasive packet interface among the DSP array, host processors and the network.
The MII, RMII and SMII Ethernet interfaces integrated into the devices provide direct access to packet networks.
The MSC8112 and MSC8113 DSPs provide a glueless interface to onboard Ethernet switches and PHYs, enabling scalable, distributed, low-cost board architectures.
Based on StarCore technology, the devices help software engineers by providing one architecture and one software that scales from low to high densities.
Using other DSP offerings, software engineers would need to report the software as they move up the performance curve, which adds costs for porting, testing and maintenance for multiple code bases and architectures.
The MSC8112 and MSC8113 multicore DSPs are shipping now.
Suggested resale prices in 10,000-unit quantities are US $52 for MSC8112 at 300MHz, $70 for MSC8113 at 300MHz and $77 for MSC8113 at 400MHz.
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