MIPS32® 24K® Processor Core Powers BroadLight’s New GPON Residential Gateway SoC

BroadLight is powering its new BL2348 GPON Residential Gateway (RG) SoC solution for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) applications with the high-performance MIPS32® 24K® core. The new BL2348 RG SoC is available now and delivers the superior performance, integration and functionality required for the latest generation of Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) that connects the home network directly to the access network. According to BroadLight, the 24K core brings an unprecedented 650 Dhrystone MIPS performance to the GPON control plane processor of the BL2348 SoC.

Infonetics Research states that the GPON market is growing quickly, and will accelerate as service providers increasingly deploy PON-based FTTH and FTTB networks to stay competitive. According to Igor Elkanovich, vice president of VLSI for BroadLight, “We look forward to extending our presence in the FTTH market thanks to the performance and flexibility of MIPS’ 24K core.”

BroadLight’s technology has been adopted by leading manufacturers who provide equipment for the some of the world’s largest fiber PON roll-outs. Askey Computer has already selected the BL2348 SoC for its new line of high-performance CPE products—making Askey one of the first equipment companies to meet the requirements of leading service providers for a GPON-enabled residential gateway that connects the home network directly to the access network.

In other news, Broadlight recently announced that ZyXEL Corporation selected its MIPS-Based™ BL3458 GPON controller for a 16-port pizza box style OLT-1500 series and the MIPS-Based BL2338 ONT SoC for its GPON + VDSL2 MDU pizza box style ONT, VES-1600PT/PE series networking products.

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Altair Semiconductor, a fabless chip company developing some of the world’s most advanced mobile WiMAX semiconductors for handheld devices, integrated MIPS® processor and analog IP into its new ALT2150 mobile WiMAX baseband processor. The ALT2150 is the first baseband processor optimized for handheld devices, combining ultra-low power consumption, low cost and the smallest footprint.

According to Eran Eshed, Altair’s co-founder and vice president of marketing and business development, “After exhaustively benchmarking several alternatives, we chose the industry standard MIPS32® architecture and Chipidea analog circuitry to help us achieve the best possible combination of power efficiency and performance for the ALT2150, the world’s smallest and most power-efficient mobile WiMAX processor. The combination of our proprietary O2P™ PHY processor, together with industry-leading MIPS Technologies’ IP cores, enables us to offer a highly flexible and differentiated solution.”