An Overview of the QorIQ Qonverge B4860 Base Station … Radio Heads CPRI Fiber Connections...

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Freescale, the Freescale logo, AltiVec, C-5, CodeTEST, CodeWarrior, ColdFire,

ColdFire+, C-Ware, the Energy Efficient Solutions logo, Kinetis, mobileGT, PowerQUICC,

Processor Expert, QorIQ, Qorivva, StarCore, Symphony and VortiQa are trademarks of

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. Airfast, BeeKit, BeeStack,

CoreNet, Flexis, MagniV, MXC, Platform in a Package, QorIQ Qonverge, QUICC Engine,

Ready Play, SafeAssure, the SafeAssure logo, SMARTMOS, TurboLink, Vybrid and

Xtrinsic are trademarks of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All other product or service

names are the property of their respective owners. © 2012 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

.

Barry Stern

Baseband DSP & SoC Product Line, Sr. Marketing Manager

June 2012

TM 2

Freescale, the Freescale logo, AltiVec, C-5, CodeTEST, CodeWarrior, ColdFire, ColdFire+, C-Ware, the Energy Efficient Solutions logo, Kinetis,

mobileGT, PowerQUICC, Processor Expert, QorIQ, Qorivva, StarCore, Symphony and VortiQa are trademarks of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.,

Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. Airfast, BeeKit, BeeStack, CoreNet, Flexis, MagniV, MXC, Platform in a Package, QorIQ Qonverge, QUICC Engine,

Ready Play, SafeAssure, the SafeAssure logo, SMARTMOS, TurboLink, Vybrid and Xtrinsic are trademarks of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All

other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. © 2012 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

• Need for Capacity and Industry Challenges

• Introducing the New QorIQ Qonverge B4860

• Freescale Complete SoC Portfolio

• In the Emerging Network Topologies

• Device Architecture & Capacities

• In Cloud-RAN

• Ecosystem

• Summary

3 TM






• Higher Capacities and Data Rates

− Smartphone Density

32x increase per km2 by 2015

− Internet over Mobile

70% of mobile data by 2014

(Source: Bell Labs, Apr-11)

• Wireless Standards and Topologies Evolution

− Multi-standard support required (LTE, LTE-Advanced, 3G-HSPA, TD-SCDMA, GSM)

− Move to heterogeneous networks: Macro, RRH, Metrocell, Picocell & Cloud RAN architectures

• Rapidly Evolving Macro Infrastructure

− Drive for increased processing and performance

− Need to leverage spectrum availability

− Desire for efficient energy consumption

− Continual strive for increased efficiency and lower cost

Global LTE Macro Base Station Deployments

to Reach 1.5 Million by 2015

(In-Stat, Sep-11)

Global Capital Expenditures by Wireless

Carriers for 4G LTE Infrastructure Gear will

Reach $36.1 Billion by 2015

(iSuppli Research, Jan-12)

4 TM






• Connectivity

− Coverage: Urban, highways and rural

− Spectral efficiency: Radio and network performance

− Multi-standard: Supports variety of users

− Reliability: Zero down time

• Capacity

− Users: Thousands of active users

− Throughputs: Over 1Gbps data rate

− Scalable/Modular: Sectors, antennas, users…

− Active Antenna, MIMO: Improved Spectral Efficiency and users’ QoS

• Cost

− Space: Miniaturization and consolidation of equipment

− Low Impact: Power & Cost

− Future Proof: Easy upgrades, SDR

− Complete solutions: Ease development for faster time to market

High

Throughputs &

Coverage

Lowering Costs

Energy Efficiency

Multi

Standard

& SDR

Many

Active

Users

TM

Freescale, the Freescale logo, AltiVec, C-5, CodeTEST, CodeWarrior, ColdFire,

ColdFire+, C-Ware, the Energy Efficient Solutions logo, Kinetis, mobileGT, PowerQUICC,

Processor Expert, QorIQ, Qorivva, StarCore, Symphony and VortiQa are trademarks of

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. Airfast, BeeKit, BeeStack,

CoreNet, Flexis, MagniV, MXC, Platform in a Package, QorIQ Qonverge, QUICC Engine,

Ready Play, SafeAssure, the SafeAssure logo, SMARTMOS, TurboLink, Vybrid and

Xtrinsic are trademarks of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All other product or service

names are the property of their respective owners. © 2012 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

.

Industry Flagship for Performance,

Power and Cost

6 TM






• B4860 delivers the highest performance in the industry through intelligent, balanced integration with a focus on cost and power efficiency

− Optimal System Cost

Industry-leading levels of integration, drastically reducing chip count and component cost

− Delivers on Scalability

A common architecture from femto to macro providing vertical and horizontal scalability; allows customers to leverage both software and hardware architectures

− Performance Optimized

Offering a leap in performance with efficient, high-performance next generation of our field-proven DSP and MPU cores as well as enhanced application specific accelerators

− Power Efficiency

SoC solution allows for intelligent power management based on traffic profiles

7 TM






• QorIQ Qonverge Base Station-on-Chip SoC Series

− Advanced core and acceleration technologies, highly-balanced architectures for baseband processing integration, advanced process technologies

− Freescale delivering industry’s first complete SoC portfolio from home femto to multi-sector macro base stations

− Software compatibility across different devices

− Layer-1 and transport software stacks for small cell solutions to further expedite time to market

− Adopted by Industry-leading base station OEMs

• Broad portfolio from Femto to Macro with on-time, on-specification release track record

• Common architecture and software tool sets including CodeWarrior Development Suite

• Software and tool ecosystem catering to Tier-1 wireless OEMs and broad market customers

• Rich third-party ecosystem for tools, operating system and application software

NEW

(45 nm)

(45 nm)

32-100 users

(28 nm)

100-250 users

(28 nm)

1000+ users

NEW

8 TM






Cloud-RAN (BBU Pooling) Baseband processing centralization,

reduced number of cell sites,

load balancing

Remote Radio Heads

CPRI Fiber

Connections

Consolidated Macro Cell Site Advanced antennas, spectrum

aggregation, large coverage

BBU RF

Heterogeneous Networks Increase overall cellsite performance,

increase cell edge data rates

Relays Small Cells RRH

Backhaul/

Donor

base station

Super

Macro

B4860 based BBUs

Peerless levels of integration provide

best-in-class cost and power

Integrated IO, low power and scalability

enable centralized processing configurations

Flexible architecture supports scalable solutions

for small and large cells

9 TM






• Next generation, e6500 Dual-Thread Power Architecture® cores offer highest CoreMark/Watt with AltiVec technology for dramatic L2 scheduling acceleration

• Next generation, SC3900 StarCore™ provides 2x DSP performance compared to competitive offerings

• Above 21GHz of Programmable Performance

• Smart hardware acceleration for Layer 1, 2, Control and Transport allows for best in class performance, power and cost

• Large scale SoC integration allows for simpler programming models and easier load balancing

• Integrated, Rich I/O including backhaul and antenna interfaces provides flexibility, interoperability and reduces overall system cost

10 TM






*Based on simulation

2.4x

CoreNet Coherency Fabric

T

32K

AltiVec

e6500

PM

C T

32K

AltiVec

e6500

PM

C

Core Performance: CoreMark™

e500 core

processor

e6500*

processor

(2 thread)

T

32K

T

32K

Industry’s

Highest

CoreMark

per Watt

2MB 16-way Shared L2 Cache,

4 Banks

CoreNet Interface 256-bit Rd & Wr Data Busses

SC3900

FVP Core

High Speed

Baseband

Accelerators

Interface

CoreNet Coherency Fabric

32K 32K

SC3900

FVP Core

32K 32K

Texas

Instruments

C66x

1.5GHz

20,030

BDTI

Highest

Speed

Score

37,460

Freescale

SC3900

1.2GHz

BDTIsimMark2000™

BDTImark2000™

CoreNet Interface 256-bit Rd & Wr Data Busses

2MB 16-way Shared L2 Cache,

4 Banks

BDTi Score

BDTI recently benchmarked the SC3900 core included in the

Freescale B4860. Running at 1.2 GHz, the SC3900 core received

a BDTIsimMark2000™ score of 37,460 – the highest speed score

recorded. See www.BDTI.com for details

• e6500 High-Performance MPU

− 64-bit Power Architecture® core

− Dual threads provide x1.7 times the performance of a single thread

− Clustered L2 cache allowing strict allocation or full sharing

− AltiVec 128b SIMD unit

• SC3900 High-Performance DSP

− Step function in DSP performance over previous generation and competition

− State-of-the-art support for control code with Branch Prediction

− MMU and address translation support

− Clustered L2 cache allowing strict allocation or full sharing

• High Speed Accesses to Memories

• Low Power Design

http://www.bdti.com/

11 TM






MAPLE-B Layer-1 Hardware Accelerators

Standards support LTE, WCDMA, WiMAX, GSM and

LTE-Advanced

Throughputs Very high throughputs enabling low

processing latencies

Programming Simple API

Multimode operations LTE, LTE-A, WCDMA

Advanced MiMO

Innovative MiMO Equalizer for

improved spectral efficiency and

reduce processing latencies compared

to conventional techniques

Streaming Direct streaming to/from antenna

without core intervention

Internal Embedded

Flows

Internal embedded flows for

PUSCH/PDSCH Uplink/Downlink

processing without core intervention

Completely offloads extensive Baseband algorithms

DPAA Control/Transport Hardware Accelerators

FMAN

Frame Manager

Above 20 Gbps aggregate throughput,

Parse, Classify, Distribute

BMAN

Buffer Manager

Manages buffer pools for accelerators

and network interfaces

QMAN

Queue Manager

Simplified sharing of network

interfaces and hardware accelerators

by multiple cores

RMAN

Rapid IO Manager Seamless mapping sRIO to DPAA

SEC

Security

SNOW-3G, Kasumi, ZUC, IPSec,

AES, DES, MD5, SHA-1/2….

Saving CPU Cycles for higher value work

MAPLE-B

Innovative Layer-1

Acceleration

Work distribution

between Cores and

Accelerators

Security acceleration for of over-

the- air and backhaul transport

ciphering

Integrated vector processing unit

for accelerating layer 2 scheduling

IP Packets Acceleration

12 TM






• LTE/LTE-A, HSPA/WCDMA, WiMAX and Multi-Mode acceleration solution.

• Scaled for Pico/Micro capacity 3rd generation Programmable Multi-Acceleration Platform - MAPLE-B3

• LTE/LTE-A acceleration R10 compliant:

− PUSCH acceleration including Cancelation, Flexible MIMO Equalization, iDFT, De-Modulator, De-Scrambler, DINTLV, UCI decoding, HARQ, FEC decoding.

− PDSCH acceleration including full PDSCH/PMCH from FEC to IFFT, internal RS generation, multiplexing of PBCH, PSS, SSS at RE mapping.

− FFT/DFT and vector multiplication acceleration for PUSCH, PCFICH, PHICH, PDCCH, PRACH, Sounding and general purpose use

• WCDMA/HSPA acceleration R10 compliant:

− HSDPA FEC encoding

− HSUPA, WCDMA FEC decoding

− Downlink Chip Rate acceleration

− Uplink Chip Rate acceleration with flexible scheme addressing:

Low latency control channels processing

Flexible Interference Cancelation, Grouping, Pre-Despreading data channels processing

Flexible Path Searcher and RACH correlations

eTVPE2

x2

eFTPE2

x8

EQPE2

x2

PDPE2

x2

DEPE

x2

PUPE2

x2

CRPE-DL2

CRPE-ULB2

x2

CRPE-ULF2

TCPE

RISC x12

DMA x 12 DATA RAM

INST. RAM

CRCPE x3

MAPLE-B3

13 TM






Guard Removal

FFT

Cyclic Prefix Removal

From

Antenna

Channel

Estimation

SNR

MMSE

Equalizer

IDFT

+

FC

QAM

De-

Mapper

De-Scramble De-Interleave

HARQ

combine CRC24b

Transport

Block

Assembly

CRC24a

Rate

DeMat

ch

Turbo

Decode

3GPP TS36.211/212/213

Guard Insertion

IFFT

Cyclic Prefix

MIMO

Precode

Code

Block

Segment

Layer

Mapper

Physical

Resource Block

Mapper

Downlink

Reference Symbol

Generation

PUSCH (Uplink) Processing

CRC24a CRC24b Turbo

Encoder

HARQ

Rate Match

Scrambling

To

Layer-2

QAM

Mapper To

Antenna

MAPLE-PE

CQI/PMI controls Decoded RI/ACK bits DTX test

From

Layer-2

MAPLE

Embedded Flow

PDSCH (Downlink) Processing SC3900 Core

14 TM






Bridging + L2 QoS

TransportPDCPRLC+MACPHY

SchedulerL3

control

Transport control

IP

reas’bly Ethernet

ARP, SCTP, ICMP,

OAM, IKE, …

(all other traffic) GTP/UDP U-

plane

to USDPAA

fast-path

application

QMan HW accelerator

Bridging/forward to

next BB unit

Classify

(ACL) IPSec

IP

reas’bly

Policing

Pre-

Classify

IP

fragm't Ethernet

GTP/UDP U-

plane

from USDPAA

fast- path

application

IP

fragm’t IPSec

IPSec

policy

check

QoS /

shaping

GTP

TEID

classify

Linux SMP

slow parh

(incl classify)

GTP echo/error,

UDP OAM, …

(all other traffic)

SEC HW accelerator

FMan HW accelerator

Firewall

FP

(opt)

Software on CPU core

(opt.)

Header

modify

(opt.)

Header

modify

(opt.)

Header

modify

(opt.)

Header

modify

Bridging/forward to

next BB unit

(opt.)

Header

modify

Uplink

Downlink

DPAA

15 TM






sRIO & PCIe for multichip

connectivity

Advance I/O –

Glueless Interfaces to Antenna

& Backhaul

4x 1GbE/2.5GbE

Classify-Parse-Distribute

with Synchronization 2x 10GbE

iEEE1588v2

8x CPRI v4.2 High-speed, industry-

standard Antenna

Interfaces at 9.8G

2x sRIO V2.1 2 controllers with 8 lanes

5G

PCIe v2.0 Quad lanes at 5G

IFC Modern NOR/NAND flash

controller & Legacy ASIC

connectivity

Other

Peripherals

SPI, I2C, USB, UART,

MMC, etc

Advanced

Debug/Tracing JTAG, Aurora (debug/trace)

Advanced Real-time

Tracing and Monitoring

Standard, High Speed

Antenna Interfaces

Backhaul networking,

delivering line-rate at

smallest packet sizes

16 TM






• Industry leading performance solution for base stations

• Based on advanced Power Architecture®, StarCore, CoreNet and MAPLE

technologies

• First SoC in 28nm process node for Wireless Infrastructure

• Supports the most advanced mobile wireless standards

High Density Baseband Solution

LTE-Advanced SOLUTION

A sector on a chip

up to 60MHz, 1-sector, 16 Ant.

1.8Gbps Aggregated Throughput

LTE SOLUTION

Base station on a chip

20MHz, 3-sector, 24 Ant.

1.4Gbps Aggregated Throughput

Supports LTE,

LTE-A, WCDMA,

TD-SCDMA, GSM

Multi-mode

Support

Supports

Macro cells

Delivers Optimal

Throughputs and

Users Capacity

WCDMA SOLUTION


5MHz, up to 6 cells, 24 ant.

384Mbps Aggregated Throughput

TD-SCDMA SOLUTION


36 carriers with a single device

17 TM






• Expense to deploy Fiber creates a practical limit on number

and distance of connections to BBU Pool

• QorIQ Qonverge (B4860) addresses needs unique to BBU

− Efficient (silicon size and power) for L1/L2/L3 processing

− Hardware based accelerators for standard and repetitive

algorithms

− Low latency and deterministic behavior with L1, scheduler and

L2 processing

− Strong processing assist technology for Transport, Security,

QoS and packet processing Virtualization down to MAC-

scheduler level

− 10GbE or sRIO connections for BBU balancing within the pool

• B4860 Base station-on-a-chip approach provides scalable

solution to suit varying capacity needs

• 10GbE Backhaul connectivity is required

• QorIQ (T4 family) ideal for Cloud-RAN data-centric

servers

− Best Coremark/watt

− SoC mimics cloud compute system architecture

− Strong processing assist technology for Transport,

Security, QoS and packet processing

• Ideal for virtualization of Core, RNC, Backhaul,

Gateway, etc.

− Power Architecture leads server market share

− Ecosystem and Virtualization solutions exist

Remote

Radio Heads

CPRI Fiber

Connections

Centralized B4860 based BBU Pool/Hotel

Mobile Carrier Core Infrastructure T4240-based Servers

10Gb

18 TM






3 sector, 20 MHz LTE

with 5 major components

3 sectors, 20 MHz LTE, or

Single sector 60MHz LTE-A

on a single SoC

Multicor

e

MPU

sRIO

Switch

Layer-1

Layer-2/3

Transport

& Control

DSP

CP

RI

I2C

UART

SPI

GE

sRIO

CPRI

Flas

h DDR2 DDR1

Flas

h

Antenna

10 Gbps

1Gbps

DDR

3 DDR3

Back Haul

Maint.

PHY

PHY Antenna

DSP

DSP

CPRI

B4860

POWER

4X Cost Reduction

3X Power Reduction

B4860 SoC

19 TM






Antenna

sRIO

Switch

2x

10GE

CPRI

Flas

h DDR2 DDR1

Flas

h

DDR3 DDR3

USB PCIe B4460

CPRI

2x

10GE

CPRI

Flas

h DDR2 DDR1

Flas

h

DDR3 DDR3

USB PCIe B4460

CPRI

2x

10GE

CPRI

Flas

h DDR2 DDR1

Flas

h

DDR3 DDR3

USB PCIe B4460

CPRI

Antenna Antenna

L1-PHY + Layer-2 (Scheduler/MAC/RLC/PDCP) + L3-Control

T??? T4160

sRIO

switch

sRIO sRIO sRIO sRIO sRIO sRIO

10GE

Transport

/Control

10G Backhaul 10GE

• Throughput – 5.4Gbps (DL+UL) aggregated

• Over 3000 active users

• 4T/4R or 8T/8R antenna configurations

• SIC & PIC Advanced MiMO Receivers support

• Carrier Aggregation support

• Energy saving using advanced power saving techniques based on traffic profiles

• Option for aggregation using 10GbE Ethernet

• CPRI chaining at 9.8G

• 9 sectors LTE 20MHz 300Mbps DL / 150 Mbps UL per sector

20 TM






Dev Systems

• Integrated IDE

• Optimizing

Compilers for DSP

and MPU

• Debugger

• Profilers/Tracing

• Simulation Tools

B4860 QDS

• Full features

development

• Software

development

• Evaluation

• Reference design

General

Purpose

Development

System

• Linux

• VxWorks

• OSE & OSEck

• SmartDSP-OS

• ‘Vista’

Modeling/Analysis

• LTE and WCDMA

Layer 1 Software

Libraries

TM

• Transport &

Control Software

• Device functional

accurate model

• Core

performance

accurate model

Dev Tools OS Partners Simulation

Tools

Application

Software

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New Level of Performance in Mobile

Wireless Infrastructure

• Three 20 MHz sectors of LTE in a single base

station solution SoC, supporting multiple

standards and multimode operation for macro base

stations

• Future proof, provides full support and scalability

for LTE-Advanced and WCDMA R10 standards

• Complete baseband solution, integrates L1, L2,

Control and Transport baseband processing from

backhaul network to antenna Interface

• Competitive system cost, helps OEMs to meet

operators’ demand for lower CAPEX

• Freescale’s R&D scale and unique ownership

of fundamental IP combined with systems

knowledge drives competitive differentiation

• World-class silicon, process

execution 28nm and beyond

22 TM






• Telecoms LTE Awards 2012 Shortlist

• Category 10 Best Chipset / Processor Product

• Freescale Semiconductor - B4860 SoC (Infrastructure)

• GCT Semiconductor - GDM7240 (Handset)

• Renesas Mobile Corporation - MP5232 (Handset)

• Texas Instruments - TCI6636 SoC (Infrastructure)

B4860 SoC -Telecom LTE Awards 2012 Winner

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