NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), the leader in technology for communications infrastructure, has announced the introduction of the Comcerto® 2000 family of multi-core ARM® Cortex™-A CPU-based communications processors. Bringing software defined networking (SDN) to the edge of the network, the processors enable a new generation of products for switching, routing, security, multi-service gateways, enterprise class wireless access points and controllers, network attached storage and voice-over-IP (VoIP) applications for residential, enterprise and networking equipment for small and medium businesses. This processor family is ideally suited for either control processors or for mixed control and data plane applications.

The first two devices in the series are Comcerto C2100 and C2200 with single-core and dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore™ processors, respectively, with symmetric multi-processing (SMP), coherent level two cache and ARM TrustZone® security. Both devices include Mindspeed®’s OPAL™ (Open Packet Acceleration Logic) engine, a wire rate gigabit-speed programmable data-path acceleration engine and a comprehensive set of I/O and peripherals, as well as support for DDR3 with ECC. This enables a new class of cost-effective products that support new protocols and higher speeds with lower power consumption. Silicon, carrier-grade software and Linux software design kits (SDK) are sampling now.

“The Comcerto 2000 is the first in a new family of high-performance multi-core ARM IP-based communications processors from Mindspeed,” explained Marco E. Bello, executive director of marketing and product management, customer premises equipment (CPE), at Mindspeed. “We are building on the proven success of the dual-core Comcerto 1000 processor, widely deployed in carrier-grade networking products around the world, to deliver industry changing price, power and performance to our customers. The Comcerto 2000 processor family with the OPAL engine brings the capability of software defined networking to a new class of products.”

Mindspeed Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: MSPD)