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Simon StanleyAnalyst at Large, Heavy Reading

Michael Christofferson Director of Product Management, Enea

Stephen TurnbullWireless Access Marketing Manager, Freescale

Today’s Presenters

• Mobile Market Drivers and Growth of LTE• Evolving Radio Access Networks• HetNet and Small Cells• Silicon solutions for integrated base stations• Off-the-shelf software for LTE base stations• Conclusions

Agenda

Mobile Device Internet Usage Accelerating• Mobile broadband

usage growing rapidly‒ New subscribers to

broadband services‒ Quad core

smartphones‒ Laptops and tablets‒ M2M

• Network intensive applications

‒ Video

• Mobile data 2011-2016 78% CAGR (Source: Source Cisco VNI Mobile, 2012)

‒ Mobile video traffic exceeded 50 percent for the first time in 2011‒ Average smartphone usage nearly tripled in 2011

‒ 150 MB per month (up from 55 MB per month in 2010)‒ average smartphone will generate 2.6 GB of traffic per month in 2016 (17x 2011)

LTE Is Significant Step Forward

• LTE provides 2 to 5 times greater spectral efficiency than most advanced 3G networks – Lower cost per bit

• Faster downloads– Up to 100 Mbit/s initially– Better user experience

• Reduced OPEX and CAPEX– LTE base station cost <1/5 HSPA cost per user per

month (based on 10 Gbit/s per month)– Energy efficient

LTE Market Rollout

• 592 Million LTE Subscriptions by 2016 (Source: Pyramid Research)

• 4G LTE Revenues Projected to Exceed $265 Billion Globally in 2016 (Source: Juniper Research)

• 417 LTE Devices Announced (Source:GSA)

– From 67 companies

• 89 LTE operators have now launched commercial services in 45 countries (Source:GSA)

– 80 FDD, 9 TDD– Additional 61 expected to start

services during 2012

2009 2010 2011 2012

2 1747

89

61

Source: GSA Evolution to LTE report July 11, 2012

Audience Poll #1

• When are you planning to deploy LTE?– Already deploying– Next 6 months– 6-12 months– 1-2 years– 2-4 years– No plans

Communication Network Modernization The Foundation for Future Growth

Evolving Multi standard Radio Access Networks

Next generation

Antenna Integrated Radio Unit

Source: 4G Americas, ALU, NSN, Ericsson, Verizon

Iub

Iub S1-M

ME

S1-U

Different standards are consolidated into one base

station

OSS

Mub

Mub

Mul

Mur

Converged multi standard

macro base stations and

small cells (micro main-remote, and

pico)

Wi-Fi

Source: Ericsson

HetNet Benefits

• Lower CAPEX with targeted coverage, affordable LTE roll out• Lower OPEX with less redundancy• Better user experience, higher data rates, more complete coverage

Femto Internet Backhau

l

Femto

Pico

Relay

Relay RFBackhaul

CORE NETWOR

K

Internet

Pico and RRH Dedicated Backhauls

RRH

TM 13Freescale, 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.

e6500 MPU

e500 MPU

Small Cell Challenges

Major trends:• Commercial turnkey L1 from silicon provider• Optimized SW/HW partitioning • Power optimization – highly integrated solutions• Market sweet spots in flux due to HetNet dynamics• Multi-mode, resources balancing• SON support (additional radios, sniffing, measures)

64-256 users Metro600 Mbps + Relay

2x 20 MHz

16 users Femto~150 Mbps

1 x 20 MHz

BSC9131

32-100 users Pico225 Mbps

1 x 20 MHz

BSC9132

B442x

Freescale solutions:• Complete solutions including commercial software• Scalable SW & HW architecture: Femto->Pico->Metro• SW investment re-use between generations/sizes• Smart support functionality for debug, error reporting, statistics• High levels of integration L1 transport & control• Optimized HW acceleration for small cells • AIC integration for direct transceiver connectivity

(JESD20x)

SC3850e500 MPU

SC3850 e500 MPU

SC3850

SC3850 e6500 MPU

SC3900

BSC9130/1

BSC9132

B4420

JESD207, MAXPHY

JESD207, CPRI

JESD207/204B*, CPRI

DFE CFR+DPD* external

DFE CFR

TM 14Freescale, 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.

Freescale Confidential Proprietary

Software Solution for PSC913x Family• Freescale will provide comprehensive

and commercial L1, L2, L3 and transport software, integrated and tested on BSC9131/2 platforms

− LTE-FDD/TDD and WCDMA (HSPA+) L1 software (licensed by Freescale or solutions from Arraycomm)

− L2/L3 Software for LTE-FDD/TDD and WCDMA (licensed by Aricent and Radisys)

− Transport software, including IPsec, QoS backhaul, etc. (VortiQa licensed by Freescale or ENEA solution)

− Development tools and operating system software (available through Freescale and ENEA)

TM 15Freescale, 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.

Freescale Confidential Proprietary

PSC9131 Reference Design Femtocell Platform

PSC9131 Form Factor Reference Design Board

Features:• Complete communications platform enabling

CDMA2K, LTE, WCDMA/HSPA+ • Dual-band system covering up to 2.7 GHz• Development and debugging tools available

from Freescale and our partners

Benefits:• Form factor design helps speed customers time

to market• Turnkey hardware design • Integrated with Maxim and ADI RF solutions

TM 16Freescale, 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.

Macro BTS Challenges

2006 2008 2010 2012

0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

LTE Data Throughput Requirements/device

Mbp

s (U

L+D

L)

Future/ C-RAN

1x20MHzx2 MIMO

20MHzx4 MIMO

3x20MHzx8 MIMO

[6-9]x20MHz x4 MIMO[12-18] x20MHz x2 MIMO

Major trends:• Data throughput exponential growth• Control overheads and scheduling complexity increasing• Move to smart “many cores” architecture• HW assist is a must• Metro Cell with common OAM (mini Macro ?)• mW/Mbps vs. mW/user• Scalable SW investment (BTS generations, BTS

deployments)• Multi-Mode (+C-RAN), TDD, FDD, 2x2, 2x4,4x4,2x8,4x8,

8x8…

MSC8156 MSC8157 B4860*(L1)0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

mW/Mbps for L1 LTE processingFSL Products

mW

/ M

bp

s

Freescale solutions:• Highest performance programmable cores (SC3900 & e6500)• Advanced acceleration for L1, L2, packet processing, transport• Tight coupling between of key processing elements and EDF

(accelerated embedded data flows)• Optimized for power, area, and customer value add• HW coherency for reduced TCO and TTM • Dedicated debug and monitoring hardware

Additional acceleration

SC3900, 28nmEDF flows

*Extrapolated from B4860 for L1 only processing (excludes PPC cores, 1xDDR, minor overheads)

TM 17Freescale, 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.

3 sector, 20 MHz LTE with 5 major components

3 sectors, 20 MHz LTE, orSingle sector 60MHz LTE-A

on a single SoC

Benefit of Intelligent Integration

Multicore

MPU

sRIOSwitch

Layer-1

Layer-2/3Transport& Control

DSP

CP

RI

I2C

UART

SPI

GE

sRIO

CPRI

Flash

DDR2 DDR1

Flash

Antenna

10 Gbps

1Gbps

DDR3

DDR3

Back Haul

Maint.

PHY

PHYAntenna

DSP

DSP

CPRI

B4860

POWERCOST

4X Cost Reduction3X Power Reduction

B4860 SoC

4X 3X

TM 18Freescale, 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.

Complete Femto to Macro SoC Portfolio

• 8 to 16 users (LTE (FDD, TDD), WCDMA, CDMAx) and multi-mode

• >1000 users

• Multi-sector, multi-standard and multi-mode

• 3GPP Rel. 10

BSC9131 Femto

B4860 Macro

• 128 to 256 users

• Multi-standard and multi-mode, 1 - 2 sectors

• 3GPP Rel. 10

• Pin compatible with B4860

B4420 Metro

• 32 to 100 users(LTE (FDD, TDD), WCDMA) and multi-mode

BSC9132 Pico

45nm 28nm

Audience Poll #2

• What type of cell are you developing/deploying?– Macro

– Metro

– Micro

– Enterprise

– Residential

– Other

LTE Base Station Software Development Platform

What is Needed – in a Nutshell

Linux / DSP Exec

Linux IPC services

Linux real-time

characteristics

DSP/Layer 1 processing platform

Linux (e)NodeB Optimized IP transport:

Linux / DSP Exec Tools

Layer 2/3 ProcessingPlatform

eNodeB Application Specific System Management Middleware

LTE/HSPA Implementation Strategy

Layer 2-3 Can be implemented in a

communication processor Layer 2 is often implemented

together with L1 in the DSP to reduce the latency of the MAC scheduler and L1 interaction

L1 or Physical Layer (PHY) Usually implemented in a DSP The DSP+MPU integration

allow L2 to move to the MPU

X2APXP Application Protocol

RRCRadio Resource Control

GTP-UGPRS Tunnelling Protocol - User plane

SCTPStream Control Transmission Protocol

S1APS1 Application Protocol

UDP

Secure IP

PDCPPacket Data Convergence Protocol

RLCRadio Link Control

MACMedium Access Control

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Bit Rate Processing

Symbol Rate Processing

iFFTinverse Fast Fourier Transform

FFTFast Fourier Transform

Ctrl planeto/from MME (S1-MME)

Ctrl planeto/from

eNB (X2-C)

Data planefrom SGW or

eNB (S1-U/X2-U)

Data plane to SGW or

eNB (S1-U/X2-U)

From Antenna / UE

To Antenna / UE

EUTRAN Layer 1EUTRAN Layer 2EUTRAN Layer 3Internet LayerseNB ApplicationSpecific Software

Source: Enea

Operation and Support System

- OSS (Mul)

Enea’s Base Station PlatformIn Context of the Application

Tier 1 grade DSPmanagementcontrol platform - dSPEED

IP transport optimized for hardware acceleration – PAXEnea Linux + real time characteristics – LWRT

Inter-process communications service across all layers - LINXRTOS optimized for DSPs with L1 solution - OSEck

System wide tools – Optima

X2APXP Application Protocol

RRCRadio Resource Control

GTP-UGPRS Tunnelling Protocol - User plane

SCTPStream Control Transmission Protocol

S1APS1 Application Protocol

UDP

Secure IP

PDCPPacket Data Convergence Protocol

RLCRadio Link Control

MACMedium Access Control

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Bit Rate Processing

Symbol Rate Processing

iFFTinverse Fast Fourier Transform

FFTFast Fourier Transform

Ctrl planeto/from MME (S1-MME)

Ctrl planeto/from

eNB (X2-C)

Data planefrom SGW or

eNB (S1-U/X2-U)

Data plane to SGW or

eNB (S1-U/X2-U)

From Antenna / UE

To Antenna / UE

EUTRAN Layer 1EUTRAN Layer 2EUTRAN Layer 3Internet LayerseNB ApplicationSpecific Software

Operation and Support System

- OSS (Mul)

System management middleware

LTE/HSPA Picocell Board

BSC9132 SoC

Picocell 2012 – BSC9132 SoC

Linux CLI tools and OSEck Shell

Optima Eclipse

LINX over Shared Memory & DMA

dSPEEDOSEckDSP C0

dSPEEDOSEckDSP C1

Ethernet

IP and LINX over Ethernet

LinuxC0

dSPEEDLinux

C1

Multi channel LINX / OSEck

Backplane core-to-core

communication

System wide tools covering

SoC

IP Transport optimized for HW accelerationEthernet / IP connection for Tools

Enea Linux tailoredfor the base stationuse-caseEnhanced with a light weight run-time

Ant

en

na

To SGW / MME / eNB / RNC / OSS

DSP management and power save controlover shared memory

Source: Enea

LTE/HSPA Macro Base Station Board

B4860 SoC

Multi-Standard Macrocell 2012 – B4860 SoC

Linux CLI tools and OSEck Shell

Optima Eclipse

LINX over Shared Memory & DMA

dSPEEDOSEckDSP C0

dSPEEDOSEckDSP C1

dSPEEDOSEckDSP C5

Ethernet

IP and LINX over Ethernet

LinuxC1

LinuxC0

dSPEEDLinux

C3

Multi channel LINX / OSEck

Backplane core-to-core

communication

System wide tools covering

SoC

LINX HDLC communication

IP Transport optimized for HW accelerationEthernet / IP connection for Tools

Enea Linux tailoredfor the base stationuse-caseEnhanced with a light weight run-time

DSP management and power save controlover shared memory

To SGW / MME / eNB / RNC / OSS

Remote Radio Unit

Basic Enea Linux

Source: Enea

A Variety of SoC Implementations

Freescale HW: Multi-chip with different sRIO types or SoC or a mix Enea OS Software: Linux/LWRT, Hypervisor, and a DSP RTOS (OSEck) Enea Platform Software: Optima, other tools, PAX, LINX, dSPEED Scalable solutions: Macro, small cell, public safety

• The mobile data tsunami is driving the need for diverse , distributed network deployments

• HetNet deployments provide higher data rates and QoS for users at affordable CAPEX & OPEX for service providers

• Companies such as Freescale & ENEA provide complete, scalable hardware & software solutions from femto to macro cell.

Conclusions

Simon StanleyAnalyst at Large, Heavy Reading

Michael Christofferson Director of Product Management, Enea

Stephen TurnbullWireless Access Marketing Manager, Freescale

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