FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR VOIP SEMICONDUCTOR PROFILE
Freescale Semiconductor, considered the number two supplier of DSP
products in the world, has addressed the needs of the communications market for several years. For the VoIP and other communications
markets, Freescale Semiconductor offers its line of MSC812x DSPs. The chips integrate 1.43 Mbyte of internal memory, external
memory interface, an 10/100 Mbps Ethernet controller, and co-processors. The MSC8126 includes a turbo-coding co-processor
(TCOP) and Viterbi co-processor (VCOP), specifically targeted towards wireless baseband processing. The chips come in 300MHz,
400MHz and 500MHz versions. The MSC8122 and MSC8126, introduced in May of 2005, were originally priced from $127.74 in quantities
of 10,000.
Freescale has partnered with two VoIP software companies in its effort to expedite VoIP system development
time. One partner, is Unicoi Systems, which introduced a VoIP reference design in April of 2004.
The other is Trinity Convergence, Inc. Freescale in November of
2004 ported VoIP software from Trinity, the Trinity’s VeriCall Edge software, to its V/VoIP solution based on its i.MX21
multimedia applications processor.
Freescale has market share in most of the communications markets
as a result of the development of its multi-protocol microprocessor, which it began delivering in 1989. Its postion is further
enhanced as a major supplier of communication chips to Motorola, the company it was spun-out from.
Since 1989 Freescale has shipped more than 185 million multi-protocol
microprocessors for a variety of different communications and peripherals protocol applications, including VoIP. In 1995,
Freescale furthered its entrance into the communications market with the PowerQUICC processor line. The company in 2005 was
manufacturing that processor with 0.13 micron process technology.
Freescale also for the VoIP market offers the iMX21 processor, based
on the ARM microprocessor architecture.
