Webinar Alert: Tensilica Announces The Five Pitfalls of 4G Baseband SOC Design

SANTA CLARA, California -

Tensilica announces the following TechOnline Webinar:

What: The Five Pitfalls of 4G Baseband SOC Design Webinar When: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 @ 11 am PT / 2 pm ET Where: seminar2.techonline.com/registration/distrib.cgi?s=1441&d=3329 How: Live over the Internet — Simply log on to the web at the address above.

For the first time in memory, the industry is converging on a single wireless standard to cover all high data-rate cellular and wide-area-network needs - LTE. The emerging LTE standard is complex, requires extraordinary computation throughput and much better power efficiency than previous wireless baseband PHY subsystems. Because of the complexity, designers are taking many different approaches to chip design for LTE.

This webinar explores five significant challenges faced by designers of efficient digital basebands, including pitfalls in LTE’s many modes, excessive cost and power, the “million MIPS” hurdle of Turbo decoding, and the dilemma of choosing the right communications among the LTE building blocks. This webinar uses detailed examples from an end-to-end LTE PHY baseband architecture to highlight the key dos and don’ts.

If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the event will be archived at seminar2.techonline.com/registration/distrib.cgi?s=1441&d=3329

Tensilica is the recognized leader in customizable dataplane processors. Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs) consist of performance intensive DSP (audio, video, imaging, and baseband signal processing) and embedded RISC processing functions (security, networking, and deeply embedded control). The automated design tools behind all of Tensilica’s application-specific processor cores enable rapid customization to meet specific data-plane performance targets.

Tensilica’s processors power top tier semiconductor companies, innovative start-ups, and system OEMs for high-volume products including mobile phones, consumer electronics devices (including portable media players, digital TV, and broadband set top boxes), computers, and storage, networking and communications equipment.

Source: Tensilica

Paula Jones, Tensilica, +1-408-327-7343