Jim Johnston CTO , Communications Convergence Processing Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.

1. Synergies in Silicon Jim Johnston CTO, Communications Convergence Processing Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.

2. Communications Convergence is Driving Device Processing Requirements in Many Segments Wireless Broadband Smartphones, Tablets, Modems, Macrocells, Femtocells, Picocells Broadband Home FTTH Home Routers WiMAX Access Routers Voice Appliances Wireline Infrastructure Core Gateways Session Border Controllers FTTB Systems Access Gateways 2

3. Mobility + Content Innovative New Platforms New Networked Applications + = Explosive demand for Mobile Broadband

4. A Fundamental Inflection Point in Mobile Networks An Explosion in Mobile Data Traffic 3,600,000 Terabytes Per Month 1,800,000 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Source: 2010 Cisco VNI Mobile pictured: Samsung Seek (courtesy of Samsung Mobile)

5. Impact on Service Providers 1,000 900 109% CAGR 2009-2014 800 Terabytes Per Month 700 3.6 EB per mo 3,600,000 600 500 2.2 EB per mo 400 Subscribers (M) 300 1,800,000 1.2 EB per mo 200 100 0.6 EB per mo 0.2 EB per mo 0.09 EB per mo 0 CY04 CY05 CY06 CY07 CY08 CY09 CY10 CY11 CY12 CY13 2012 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014 Wireline broadband Cellular mobile broadband Source: Infonetics Q4’2009 Source: 2010 Cisco VNI Mobile … Overloaded Networks

6. The Service Provider Revenue Gap 100% Traffic Volume Network Cost (existing technologies) 80% 2G 4G (Planned) 60% 3G Revenue 50% Profitability Networks HSDPA (Deployed) 40% Network Cost (LTE/SAE) 20% Time 0% 1 2 3 4 5 Voice Dominated DataDominated Years After Commercial Availability Source: 3G Americas/Light Reading 2009 Source: Booz & Company/Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. Forcing a forklift CapEx upgrade cycle to 3G+/4G/LTE

7. Compelling Consumer DevicesWill Drive Network Usage Subscriber Level • Smartphones • Tablets • Netbooks • Broadband CPE (modems) • Digital Picture Frames • eBooks • MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) • Mobile Gaming Consoles • Navigation Systems (photos courtesy of Samsung and Lenovo) Epic 4G smartphone ,Galaxy Tab (Samsung), Skylight Smartbook (Lenovo)

8. More Processing Horsepower is Required • High performance graphics processing • Low power, longer battery life • Speedy interactions between core processor and device RAM • HD video capture and playback • 1080p, 30 frames-per-second video • Dual displays (for video chat) • Vibrant touchscreens • External display drivers (HMDI output) pictured: Samsung Renoir (courtesy of Samsung Mobile)

9. More Processing Horsepower is also needed at the Basestation level Network Level MarketDrivers • Capable of delivering all standards-based services (at full throughput) • Low end-to-end latency • Cost-effective implementation • Power efficiency • Multi-RAT (Radio Access Technology) support, • including 2G and 3G • Future-proofed support of evolving requirements • Movement towards ‘small cells’ architecture • (macro-micro-pico-femto)

10. 2010 Processor Milestone: 1GHz Samsung Vibrant™ Android Smartphone Samsung Fascinate™ Android Smartphone pictured: Samsung Vibrant and Fascinate (courtesy of Samsung Mobile)

11. ARM Claims a 4x Performance Increase in One Year …

12. … With Greater Performance Ahead (Cortex-A15)

13. What’s next? Dual Core High-end smartphone devices are expected to have dual core processors by the end of 2010. By 2012, most smartphones will have dual core processors. With a dual core processor different applications can be split between the processors -- saving on battery life and improving processing speed. Source: “Vendors Vie for Smartphone Market Position” (Juniper Research, July 2010)

14. Flexible 4G Networks: Macrocells + Small Cells Network Level • Macrocell Basestations • Microcell Basestations • Picocells • Metro (Outdoor) Femtocells • Enterprise Femtocells • Residential Femtocells • In-Building Coverage Systems

15. The Network: Migration to a Distributed Architecture Metro Urban Business Residential High-Density Subs Femto Business Enterprise Femto Macro Micro Pico 50 200 10 400 1200 Business Metro Business Supported Subscribers Network designers will deploy heterogeneous networks featuring ‘small cells’

16. Increased Capacity and Coverage Micro • Small Cells: • Time • Quicker to deploy; limited zoning/permissions • Low site engineering and construction requirements • Cost • Cheaper to deploy and maintain • Lower CapEx • Lower OpEx (primarily due to reduction in lease costs) • Efficiency • Capacity (lots of it) --- exactly where it is needed • Flexibility in site location • Significant capacity gains are possible for lower TCO Pico Femto

17. CevaX DSP FFT RAKE LTE Basestations Will Also Move to SoC Architectures 2G/3G Legacy Approach eNodeB System on Chip (SoC) eNodeB Protocol Stack Ethernet Ethernet T1/E1-ATM IP Abis IP ARM Cortex A9s LTE RRC Network Processors RoHC Cipher LTE PDCP Application Specific Architecture LTE RLC LTE MAC DSPs DSPs ARM Cortex A9s LTE PHY FPGAs FPGAs FEC IQ - Proprietary IQ - CPRI IQ - CPRI Component Architecture Solution System Architecture Evolution Silicon Architecture Evolution

18. The Computational Complexities of 4G are Magnified Evolving mobile standards will drive massively higher data rates • Advanced baseband processing techniques • Adaptive beam forming • Adaptive modulation • MIMO antenna systems • Space Time Coding (STC) • Digital RF processing

19. 4G Will Benefit from System-on-Chip Evolution 4G Baseband DSL VoIP

20. Reducing system costs and boosting performance NPUs FPGAs DSP Farm App Hardware Accelerator App I/O > $3000 < $300

21. Video is the Common Driver for User Equipment and Network Processing Power Upgrades Smartphones , with 20% market share, are responsible for over 80% of mobile traffic usage. Almost 66 percent of the world’s mobile data traffic will be Video by 2014. Source: Informa Telecoms & Media Source: Cisco Visual Networking Index 2010