Communications

Overview

Solving the Access Infrastructure Dilemma: Delivering Additional Bandwidth at Lower Cost

Today's cellular infrastructure and wireline access networks are facing a rapid transformation, having to deliver terabytes of high value content to consumers while reducing operational and capital expenditure spend, as well as reducing their thermal and carbon footprint.

Microsemi's PolarFire FPGAs provide cost-effective bandwidth processing capabilities for the increasing number of converged 10 Gbps ports with the lowest power footprint. The FPGAs also address the market's growing concerns over cyber security threats as well as the reliability concerns that face deep submicron SRAM-based FPGAs as they relate to SEUs in their configuration memory.

Microsemi offers a broad portfolio of IC & Systems to Design, Deploy & Manage Communications Infrastructure. 

Applications
• Wireline access, edge, metro (1G–40G)
• Wireless heterogeneous networks
• Wireless backhaul
• Smart optical modules
• Video broadcasting

Wireline Access

PolarFire Compelling Features

• Low-cost 10G SERDES with built-in burst mode receiver for PON applications
• Built-in CDR on GPIO enables use of smaller devices when using GbE
• Up to 50% lower total power
• Non-volatile, instant-on
• Best-in-class security and SEU immune fabric configuration 

HetNet—Remote Radio Head Digital Front End and BBU

PolarFire Compelling Features

• Lowers power up to 50% for power-constrained wireless products
• Especially important for power-constrained small cells and thermally-constrained outdoor units
• Signal processing capabilities with hardened pre-adders ideal for low/mid-bandwidth DFE 4 x 4 x 60 MHz and baseband processing
• Includes ultra-low power transceiver for 10G CPRI, bridging, and fronthaul/backhaul transport
• Provides best-in-class security against tampering and hacking