Digital Signal Processing

The unrelenting demand for better and cheaper communications products, coupled with the surge in demand for multimedia applications and cloud computing services, is driving the need for high performance Digital Signal Processing (DSP) solutions. The complex nature and critical performance requirements of signal processing modules is forcing equipment vendors to evaluate options by which they can maximize their return-on-investment while maintaining highly optimized products.

Aricent’s DSP practice offers telecom equipment manufacturers, silicon vendors and telecom infrastructure providers a comprehensive set of product lifecycle services, complemented with pre-packaged protocol stack and software frameworks. Aricent’s portfolio of services helps jumpstart development of high quality and feature-rich products while accelerating the time-to-market and lowering R&D expenses.

Product Lifecycle Services

Product Strategy and Feasibility

Aricent services in this area include product definition and architecture, baseband system partitioning, performance analysis (MIPS and memory usage), algorithm selection and simulation modeling. We help vendors ensure a smooth transition of products from proof-of-concept to carrier grade solutions.

Product Development and Implementation

Aricent's highly skilled consultants have a vast experience on multiple DSP-based platforms in developing system requirements, realization of DSP platforms in C/assembly, device driver development, and platform and infrastructure software development.

Performance Optimization

Aricent's proven expertise in porting, optimizing and achieving real time performance on multiple industry leading DSP platforms, complemented by Aricent's complete product ownership, helps equipment vendors achieve precise real-time performance.

Pre-packaged Software and Frameworks

Aricent's portfolio of pre-packaged software and frameworks for the DSP domain spans across UMTS/HSPA and LTE technologies.

LTE eNodeB PHY/Baseband Framework

Aricent offers 3GPP compliant LTE eNodeB Baseband reference libraries for both uplink and downlink processing. The framework includes channel coding and modem libraries tested for the 3GPP specified performance criteria and UE simulators for complete baseband testing. Learn more

UMTS/HSPA NodeB PHY Framework

Aricent's 3GPP compliant UMTS/HSPA NodeB PHY framework includes baseband reference libraries for both uplink and downlink processing. The framework's channel coding and modem libraries have been tested for the 3GPP specified performance criteria. Additionally, the framework also includes UE simulators for complete baseband testing. Learn more

Key Benefits

Design Validation and Optimization

Optimal product design is necessary to ensure high performance, while validation is critical to ensure compliance with real time constraints required by the solution. Aricent delivers pre-packaged software and baseband frameworks which help manufacturers accelerate the design validation and test product feasibility.

Development Jumpstart

Aricent's lifecycle management services, coupled with pre-packaged software and frameworks for multiple DSP platforms, help OEMs accelerate their development as well as enable real-time adjustments of development schedules and investments to ensure competitive readiness and mitigate market-timing risk.

Continuous Improvement of Real-Time Performance

Equipment vendors need to continually improve upon the real time performance of their products and this requires periodic optimization of architecture and resources. Aricent has helped several vendors develop high performance solutions on multiple industry leading DSP platforms across different domains.

Competency

Software Tools

  • Code Composer Studio & DSP-BIOS for TI DSPs
  • Code Warrior & SmartDSP for Freescale DSP's
  • Fusion SC IDE
  • CEVA's SmartNcode

Processors

  • TI: TMS320TCI6482, TMS320c62x, TMS320c64x, DM64x, DM270/275/320, TMS320c67x (6701), OMAP3xx/7XX, OMAP15xx/16xx/17xx, OMAP24xx (ARM+C55x)
  • FreeScale: MX family [ARM+DSP/HWA] 8122 (Starcore SC140), 8144 (Starcore SC3400)
  • LSI: SP2603 (Starcore 3400 + ARM, 1610, 1620, 16410, CW1650, CW1660 (OAK DSP core)
  • Intel: Xscale, Xscale+Wireless MMX, Multi-core Nehlam
  • Renesas: SH3, SH4AL, SH4

Embedded Processors, Drivers/Firmware Firmware development

  • TNETV1050 / TNETV1055 microcontroller( MIPS32 core)
  • Broadcom BCM1250 microcontroller( MIPS64 core)
  • MCP8360 microcontroller(PowerPC core with QUICC II)
  • PPC405GP microcontroller(PowerPC core)

Software/Hardware tools

  • Tornado 2.2.1
  • WorkBench 2.4,3.2
  • Windriver ICE

RTOS

  • VxWorks
  • RT Linux