Introduction: Mindspeed Technologies, a leading semiconductor solution provider for wired network infrastructure applications, has entered the wireless communication market with an excellent base station chip product. The company's new Transcede system on chip integrates 26 programmable processing units for the first time within a single device, including: 2 ARM Cortex-A9 multi-core symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) RISC processors; 10 CEVA DSPs and 10 DSP accelerators that support the processing requirements required for single and multi domain base station implementation of complete W-CDMA, LTE, or WiMAX (layer 1, 2, and above) functionality. It is said that a single Transcede device provides three LTE processing domains while also having ample processing power, allowing manufacturers to add their own value-added features to the overall Transcede chip based solution. Since its separation from Conexant Systems in 2003, Mindspeed has been renowned in the industry for providing DSP based system level solutions for carrier grade VoIP applications. Mindspeed is clearly a master in the fields of RISC and DSP technology, but the leap from wired to wireless still requires other technical capabilities. In addition, entering the wireless market will require different marketing concepts. Not only that, but we also need to supply DSP for base stations with deep roots such as Freescale (revitalized), LSI, TI, etc
