Freescale Joins International Engineering Consortium

Freescale Semiconductor (News - Alert) announced it has become a member of the International Engineering Consortium (IEC), an engineering society dedicated to advancing the electronics industry by facilitating partnership between industry and academia for continuing education, research and service programs.

 

Freescale now serves on IEC’s (News - Alert) membership advisory board and executive council for senior-level executives.

 

By joining the consortium, Freescale gets an opportunity to work with leading telecom carriers, equipment makers and research institutions to drive technological innovation in the field of networking and telecommunications.

 

Freescale, a company specializing in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets, will participate in the IEC Broadband World Forum Europe in Belgium and demonstrate its advanced embedded processing solutions for the broadband industry, including the hardware and software solution for gigabit passive optical network (GPON) equipment.

 

Freescale’s optical network terminal (ONT) reference design utilizes the MSC7120 GPON integrated SoC device. Freescale’s MSC7120 GPON system-on-chip (SoC) offers exceptional integration and performance for GPON customer premises equipment (CPE). Its dual core architecture integrates a Power Architecture core for control path, a packet engine for data path and a StarCore DSP for voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) processing.

 

The MSC7120 GPON SoC offers basic enablement including the basic device operational software, drivers, voice CODECs and DSP framework—plus ONT evaluation boards. It also offers full enablement options including critical enablement technologies needed to build a standards compliant GPON ONT.

 

The optimized ONT hardware design enables low bill of materials and provides a full, integrated software stack to shorten ODM time to market. Freescale said its MSC7120 GPON SoC has been named as the finalist for the IEC InfoVision Awards.

 

“The IEC brings the technology community together by fostering strong collaboration between the industry’s business and academic communities, and Freescale is pleased to join this venerable and prestigious organization,” said Frederic Haine, general manager of Freescale’s Networking & Multimedia Group in Europe, in a statement.

 

Haine continued: “Freescale looks forward to working with its peers to drive continued technology innovation within networking and communications markets, as well as the larger electronics industry.”

 

“The IEC is pleased to have Freescale, one of the world’s top suppliers of embedded processors, become an IEC member and exhibit at Broadband World Forum Europe 2008,” said John Janowiak (News - Alert), president of the IEC, in a statement. “Freescale’s contributions to the IEC will be extremely valuable.”