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High-Performance Six-Core DSP
The MSC8156 is based on the industry's highest-performance DSP core built on StarCore® technology and designed for the advanced processing requirements and capabilities of today's high-performance applications for the wireless broadband, medical imaging, aerospace, defense and advanced test and measurement markets. It delivers higher performance and power savings, leveraging 45 nm process technology in a highly integrated system-on-chip (SoC) to provide performance equivalent to a 6 GHz single-core device. The MSC8156 helps equipment manufacturers create end products and services that integrate more functionality in a smaller hardware footprint.
The MSC8156 DSP delivers a high level of performance and integration, combining six fully programmable enhanced SC3850 DSP cores, each running at up to 1 GHz. Developed by NXP® and integrated on-chip, the MAPLE-B accelerator supports hardware acceleration for Turbo and Viterbi channel decoding and for DFT/iDFT and FFT/iFFT algorithms. A high-performance internal RISC-based QUICC Engine® subsystem supports multiple networking protocols to guarantee reliable data transport over packet networks while significantly offloading processing from the DSP cores.
The MSC8156 embeds large internal memory and supports a variety of advanced high-speed interface types, including two RapidIO® interfaces, two gigabit Ethernet interfaces for network communications, a PCI Express® controller, two DDR controllers for high-speed, industry standard memory interface and four multi-channel TDM interfaces. The MSC8156 allows a high degree of scalability through pin compatibility with all MSC825x and MSC815x DSP devices.
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Product Details
Block Diagram
Features
- Six StarCore® DSP SC3850 core subsystems each with:
- SC3850 DSP core at up to 1 GHz
- 512 KB unified L2 cache/M2 memory
- 32 KB I-cache, 32 KB D-cache
- Fully programmable 1056 KB M3 shared memory (SRAM)
- MAPLE-B - highly flexible programmable Turbo and Viterbi decoder supports configurable decoding parameters. It can perform up to 200 Mbps of Turbo decoding (six iterations) or up to 115 Mbps of K = 9 (zero tail) Viterbi decoding
- Two DDR 2/3 64-bit SDRAM interfaces at up to 800 MHz data rate
- Chip-Level Arbitration and Switching Fabric, non-blocking, fully pipelined, low latency
- High-speed interconnects:
- Dual 4x/1x Serial RapidIO at 1.25/2.5/3.125 Gbaud
- PCI Express 4x/1x
- Two SGMII
- Dual RISC QUICC Engine® supporting:
- RGMII gigabit Ethernet ports
- Serial peripheral interface (SPI)
- TDM highway 1024 ch., 400 Mbps, divided into four ports of 256
- DMA engine 16 bi-directional channels
- Other peripheral interfaces:
- UART
- I²C
- 32 GPIO
- 16 timers
- Technology
- Process: 45 nm SOI
- Voltage: 1-volt core, 2.5, 1.8/1.5-volt I/O
- Package: FC-BPGA (29x29) 1 mm pitch, RoHS
- This product is included in NXP®.s product longevity program, with assured supply for a minimum of 10 years after launch
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Documentation
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Application Note (36)
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MSC81xx Ethernet Boot Test[AN3436]
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MSC8156 DMA Performance[AN3987]
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Using the MSC8156 MAPLE-B[AN3950]
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Multicore Support in SmartDSP OS[AN3855]
Application Note Software (13)
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Software to support AN4207[AN4207SW]
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Software to support AN4338[AN4338SW]
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Software to support AN3935[AN3935SW]
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Software to accompany AN4176[AN4176SW]
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Software to accompany AN4063[AN4063SW]
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Software to accompany AN4155[AN4155SW]
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Software to accompany EB738[EB738SW]
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Software to support AN3873[AN3873SW]
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Software to accompany AN4196[AN4196SW]
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Software to support AN3987[AN3987SW]
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Software for AN3872[AN3872SW]
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AN3661 Associated Software[AN3661SW]
Brochure (1)
Data Sheet (1)
Fact Sheet (3)
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MSC8156 High-Performance Multicore DSP[MSC8156BMFS]
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MSC8156 Broadband Wireless Access DSP[MSC8156FS]Featured
Package Information (1)
Product Brief (1)
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MSC8156 Product Brief[MSC8156PB]
Reference Manual (6)
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MSC8156 Reference Manual[MSC8156RM]
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MSC8156 Advanced Mezzanine Card User’s Manual[MSC8156AMCUM]
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MSC8156 AMC Base Card Detailed Design Specifications[MSC8156AMCBCDDS]
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MSC8156 Mezzanine and Card Hardware Specifications[MSC8156MDDS]
Selector Guide (1)
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DSP Product Summary Brochure[BRDSPPARMETRIC]
Technical Notes (2)
User Guide (1)
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MSC8156AMC Hardware Getting Started Guide[MSC8156AMCHWGSG]
Design Resources
Hardware
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board types.
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Emulators, Probes, and ProgrammersStarCore® DSP Probe Tips for CodeWarrior® TAP
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Software
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OS and RTOS
SmartDSP OS
Note: For better experience, software downloads are recommended on desktop.
Engineering Services
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4 engineering services
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Independent Design House (IDH)
Embedded firmware consulting
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Independent Design House (IDH)
Power Integrity Analysis
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Independent Design House (IDH)
Signal Integrity analysis
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Independent Design House (IDH)
PCB design
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