Motorola Inc. has rolled out a series of platforms and enhancements to further stake its claims in wireless infrastructure and operating systems.
The announcements made at the Smart Networks Developer Forum include a solution to improve radio-frequency transistor performance of CDMA, GSM and EDGE infrastructure equipment, smart baseband solutions for 2.5- and third-generation base stations, smart packet telephony platforms and digital signal processor, and a downloadable source-code library for Linux operating systems.
The RF solution, known as 900G3, includes the following products-the MRF5S9100M, which is designed for CDMA applications, and the MRFS9101M, which is optimized for GSM and GSM EDGE applications.
“Motorola’s latest generation of RF power transistors is designed to enhance power capabilities, efficiency and ease of use for 900 MHz cellular base station amplifiers applications,” said the company.
The vendor telephony platform, known as Smart Telephony 8102 platform, as well as its MSC8122 multi-core StarCore-based digital signal processor target improved channel density at competitive pricing and improved power and size per channel.
“Our Smart Packet Telephony 8102 platform enables the general market with a high-density, comprehensive packet telephony development solution,” said Lynelle McKay, general manager and vice president of Motorola’s Networking and Computing Systems group. “In addition, our new quad-core MSC8122 StarCore-based DSP will extend our market leadership in density, performance and integration.”
With its Smart Baseband Solutions, the company combines other products like its MRC6011 Reconfigurable Compute Fabric device and next-generation MSC8126 multicore StarCore DSP and software library modules for a variety of protocols, including W-CDMA, cdma2000, TD-SCDMA and EDGE.
“Motorola’s Smart Baseband Solutions are designed to provide a flexible, future-proof reconfigurable compute fabric, enabling manufacturers to reduce the total cost and complexity of wireless infrastructure equipment, adapt to evolving wireless standards around the world, and speed time to market,” said David Perkins, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola’s networking and computing systems group.
The equipment maker also created a downloadable source-code library for the Linux OS to enable developers to enhance speed and efficiency of their applications based on the Motorola G4 processor.
