Freescale extends QorIQ Qonverge B4 family

USA: Freescale Semiconductor has added advanced floating point technology to its groundbreaking QorIQ Qonverge B4 product family, creating compelling new solutions for the industrial and general-purpose markets.

Freescale’s B4420 and award-winning B4860 system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, powered by SC3900 StarCore technology, are the first B4 family members to include floating point arithmetic.

Freescale’s advanced floating point technology is engineered to exceed the stringent requirements of computation-intensive applications that require high-precision numerical accuracy, such as radar, medical and media imaging, MAC-scheduler processing in Cloud-RAN, video analytics, security, industrial automation, and test and measurement systems.

To support these applications, Freescale added floating point arithmetic to the SC3900 processing unit, the industry’s highest performing fixed-point DSP core*. The floating point capabilities complement the broad array of advanced technologies already integrated into QorIQ Qonverge SoCs, including high-performance processing, security and network processing acceleration engines.