BARCELONA, SPAIN: Texas Instruments Incorporated, announced on Wednesday the launch of its new multistandard wireless base station System-on-Chip (SoC) delivering double the LTE performance and a 2x power/performance improvement over existing macro and compact base station SoC solutions developed in 40-nm process technology.

Based on TI's new TMS320C66x digital signal processor (DSP) generation, the TMS320TCI6618 utilizes a strategic design approach that accelerates the well-defined standard aspects of LTE, said a press release.

The programmable DSP cores allow customer differentiation in advanced techniques such as scheduling and multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) antenna processing.

"This advanced SoC brings the unmatched performance and flexibility that enables Nokia Siemens Networks to extend our leadership position in commercial radio products," said Tommi Uitto, head of LTE business line, Nokia Siemens Networks.

He added that they have truly software defined radio in the baseband as well as in the radio frequency (RF) parts. With their LTE-ready products shipping to over 200 operators worldwide, they value the innovation and high quality that Texas Instruments technology and our deep co-operation continue to deliver.

With the TCI6618, TI is introducing new hardware acceleration focused on this bit-rate processing which increases the SoC system performance and enables advanced receiver algorithms, achieving higher spectral efficiencies than competitive solutions.

"TI is effectively breaking the constraints of Moore's Law with their new base station SoC, by doubling performance in less than six months and not changing any process nodes to achieve it," said Jagdish Rebello, senior director and principal analyst, IHS-iSuppli.

He added that the wireless infrastructure developers stand to benefit from these advancements in performance, features and time to market, all suited for the demands of 4G networks.

The TCI6618 complements TI's recently announced TCI6616 wireless base station SoC. Both solutions are pin and software compatible, offering customers complete flexibility in designing multistandard base stations supporting all 2G, 3G and 4G standards, the release added.