BSC9131 Single-Core Processor and Single-Core DSP

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Processors and Microcontrollers
Power Architecture
QorIQ Communication Processors
Qonverge Platform
BSC9131 Single-Core Processor and Single-Core DSP

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The QorIQ^® Qonverge BSC9131 processor is a highly integrated device targeting small cell base station, enterprise VoIP, smart grid control, military/defense and industrial applications.

The BSC9131 device combines Power e500 and StarCore^® SC3850 core technologies with MAPLE-B2F specialist DSP acceleration processing, addressing the need for a high-performance, low-cost, integrated solution, that handles a broad range of specialist DSP functions with complimentary high-performance general purpose processing.

Data Sheet

Reference Manual

Product Details

Block Diagram

BSC9131 BD

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Features

Power Architecture subsystem including one e500 processor and 256-Kbyte shared L2 cache
StarCore^® SC3850 DSP subsystem including 512-Kbyte private L2 cache
The MAPLE-B2F multi-accelerator platform engine supports functions that enable LTE-FDD/TDD, WiMAX, WCDMA/HSPA+ and CDMA2K wireless standards, as well as common DSP function acceleration including FFT, DFT and Turbo Viterbi coding
DDR3 memory interface with 32-bit data width (40 bits including ECC), up to 800-MHz data rate
Integrated Flash controller for NOR, NAND, and FPGA support
Trust architecture secure boot
Integrated security acceleration (SEC)
Two RF interfaces supporting JESD207 (ADI)
Support of MaxPhy interface (Maxim)
Two triple-speed Gigabit-Ethernet controllers featuring network acceleration including IEEE Std 1588v2™ hardware support
USB 2.0 host and device controller
DMA controller with four bidirectional channels that serves both the Power Architecture cores and DSP domains
UART, SPI, eSDHC, USIM, and I2C controllers
GPIO, Sixteen 32-bit timers

Documentation

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1-5 of 19 documents

^{Fact Sheet}
QorIQ^® Qonverge^® BSC9131 - Fact SheetFeatured

PDFRev 2Sep 19, 2012318.7 KBQORIQPSC9131FSEnglish
^{White Paper}
Next-Generation Wireless Network Bandwidth and Capacity Enabled by Heterogeneous and Distributed Networks White PaperFeatured

PDFRev 3Sep 4, 2013961.0 KBQORIQQONVERGEWPEnglish
^{Fact Sheet}
QorIQ^® Qonverge^® BSC9131 and BSC9132 System on Chip Devices For Intelligent Industrial Nodes - Fact SheetFeatured

PDFRev 0Apr 25, 2014216.7 KBBSC913XNWEnglish
^{Data Sheet}
BSC9131, BSC9131 QorIQ Qonverge Multicore Baseband Processor Datasheet - Datasheet

PDFRev 2Aug 11, 2017861.3 KBBSC9131English
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^{Reference Manual}
BSC9131SECRM, BSC9131 Security (SEC 4.4) Reference Manual with Updates

PDFRev 0Aug 26, 20155.1 MBBSC9131SECRMEnglish
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^{Reference Manual}
BSC9131 QorIQ^® Qonverge^® Multicore Baseband Processor Reference Manual

PDFRev 1Jun 18, 201518.5 MBBSC9131RMEnglish
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^{Reference Manual}
EREF_RM, EREF: A Programmer's Reference Manual for Freescale Power Architecture Processors - Reference Manual

PDFRev 1Jun 26, 201410.4 MBEREF_RMEnglish
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^{Reference Manual}
Multi Accelerator Platform Engine,Baseband 2 for Femto (MAPLE-B2F) Reference Manual

PDFRev 0Nov 6, 20129.9 MBBSC9131MAPLERMEnglish
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^{Application Note}
AN4531, Achieving Persistent DRAM on PowerQUICC III and QorIQ Processors - Application Notes

PDFRev 2Dec 16, 2013269.4 KBAN4531English
^{Application Note}
AN3940, Hardware and Layout Design Considerations for DDR3 SDRAM Memory Interfaces - App Note

PDFRev 6Nov 25, 2013547.7 KBAN3940English
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^{Application Note}
AN4384, Configuring the CodeWarrior Tools to Debug a BSC9131RDB Board - Application Notes

PDFRev 0Jul 12, 20121.8 MBAN4384English
^{Application Note}
Kernel Examples for the StarCore SC3850 DSP Core

PDFRev 2May 4, 2012814.8 KBAN4207English
^{Application Note}
Support for IEEE 1588™ Protocol in PowerQUICC and QorIQ Processors

PDFRev 0Oct 6, 2010142.0 KBAN3423English
^{Application Note}
AN3531, Migrating from e600- to e500-Based Integrated Devices - Application Notes

PDFRev 0Oct 31, 2007961.6 KBAN3531English
^{User Guide}
Spectre and Meltdown Updates for Power ISA Cores

HTMLNov 14, 2019SPECTRE-MELTDOWN-POWER-ISA-DOCEnglish
^{Supporting Information}
FSLNISTCAVP, NIST Crypto Algorithm Validation Program Certifications for NXP^® Cryptographic Accelerators - White Paper

PDFRev 1.9Oct 28, 2016303.5 KBFSLNISTCAVPEnglish
^{Supporting Information}
PSC913x Family Customer Export Control Information

PDFRev 1Oct 5, 201616.8 KBPSC913X-PECIEnglish
^{White Paper}
Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities and Mitigations on NXP PowerPC Processors White Paper

PDFRev 0Jan 30, 2020317.1 KBSPECTREPPCWPEnglish
^{White Paper}
QORIQPMWP, QorIQ Power Management - White Paper

PDFRev 0Mar 30, 20171.4 MBQORIQPMWPEnglish

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Design Resources

Hardware

5 hardware offerings

^{Emulators, Probes, and Programmers}
Power Architecture^® processor ( COP ) Probe Tips for CodeWarrior^® TAP

CWH-CTP-COP-YE
^{Emulators, Probes, and Programmers}
CodeWarrior^® TAP

CW_TAP
^{Evaluation and Development Boards}
13dBm LTE / 3G RF Card Band 7 and 13

PSC9131RF13-0713
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^{Evaluation and Development Boards}
13dBm LTE/3G RF Card Band 1 and 13

PSC9131RF13-0113
^{Evaluation and Development Boards}
RF Module for BSC913x Boards

BSC913XRFBD

1-5 of 8 hardware offerings

^{Test Accessories and Debugger}
TRACE32 JTAG/BDM Debugger for Power Architecture

Lauterbach has over 40 years of experience in making world class microprocessor development tools. TRACE32 supports technologies like JTAG, SWD, NEXUS or ETM with embedde...

By Lauterbach Gold Partner
^{Test Accessories and Debugger}
Green Hills Probe

High speed on-chip download, run control and trace.

By Green Hills Software Platinum Partner
^{Complementary Silicon or Component}
Power Supplies Non Isolated - POL

Ideal for powering the latest generation of FPGAs and DSPs, Murata’s non-isolated (PoL) DC-DC converters are DOSA and AMP compliant, and are competitive alternatives to d...

By Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Gold Partner
^{Complementary Silicon or Component}
DRAM Modules

We build our modules from start to finish—designing, manufacturing, and testing all of the DRAM ourselves before assembling the modules and testing again. So, from high-p...

By Micron Gold Partner
^{Complementary Silicon or Component}
Managed NAND (eMMC, eUSB)

Micron manufactures a wide range of managed NAND products such as the embedded Multi Media Card (eMMC) and the embedded USB (eUSB). Densities range from a few gigabytes ...

By Micron Gold Partner
^{Complementary Silicon or Component}
NAND Flash

Micron manufactures a wide range of NAND Flash products including SLC, MLC and TLC NAND.

By Micron Gold Partner
^{Complementary Silicon or Component}
Solid State Disk (SSD)

From standard HDD replacement drives to enterprise-class storage solutions, our SSDs provide capacity, power, and performance advantages. And because we design and manufa...

By Micron Gold Partner
^{Complementary Silicon or Component}
NOR Flash

Micron manufactures a wide range of NOR Flash products, including Serial and quad SPI, Industry standard Parallel NOR flash and high performance parallel NOR Flash suppor...

By Micron Gold Partner