Freescale and ArrayComm have developed a reference design for WiMAX base station equipment. The solution combines ArrayComm’s multi antenna signal processing software (A-MAS) with Freescale’s MSC8144 quad-core digital signal processor. The reference design leverages the performance of the MSC8144 DSP to handle both Media Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) processing. The reference design meets the IEEE 802.16e standard and conforms to the WiMAX Forum Wave 2 base profile.

ArrayComm’s A-MAS software offers support of multiple input/multiple output (MIMO), adaptive antenna system (AAS) and combined MIMO/AAS modes. It incorporates all the antenna processing aspects of the WiMAX profiles approved by the WiMAX Forum Mobile Task Group for IEEE 802.16e. The performance of the A-MAS enabled network equipment can vastly improve the OPEX and CAPEX bottom line and ensure favorable business cases for WiMAX service providers.

The MSC8144 DSP is based on StarCore DSP technology.