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Qualcomm MSM6500
General Info
Designer	Qualcomm, ARM Holdings
Manufacturer	TSMC, IBM
Model Number	MSM6500
Market	Mobile, Embedded
Introduction	March 20, 2001 (announced) July 9, 2003 (launched)
General Specs
Family	MSM6xxx
Series	MSM
Locked	Yes
Frequency	146 MHz
Bus type	AMBA 2
Microarchitecture
Microarchitecture	ARM9
Chipset	MSM6xxx
Core Name	ARM926EJ-S
Process	90 nm
Technology	CMOS
Cores	1
Threads	1
Max Memory	4 GiB
Max Address Mem	0xFFFFFFFF
Multiprocessing
Max SMP	1-Way (Uniprocessor)

MSM6500 is a 32-bit ARM system-on-chip with 3G wireless capabilities developed by Qualcomm and introduced in 2003 for the mobile market. This SoC was part of the MSM6xxx Multimedia Platform offering support for more advanced features such as position-location services, video, audio, and gaming.

Cache

Main article: ARM9 § Cache

Cache Info [Edit Values]
L1I$	16 KiB 16,384 B 0.0156 MiB	1x16 KiB 4-way set associative
L1D$	16 KiB 16,384 B 0.0156 MiB	1x16 KiB 4-way set associative

Wireless

• Supported frequencies 450 MHz, 800 MHz, 1900 MHz, 2100 MHz (IMT), quad GSM

Wireless Communications
Cellular
2G	GSM   Yes GPRS   Yes cdmaOne IS-95A Yes IS-95B Yes
3G	CDMA2000 1X Yes 1xEV-DO Yes

Digital Signal Processing

• DSP: 2x QDSP4000 73 MHz
  0.073 GHz
  73,000 kHz
  

Expansions

• LCD: 18-bit, QCIF
  • Up to 176 pixels x 220 pixels resolution
• USB: USB2.0 FS Peripheral
• Camera: up to 1.3 megapixel
• Bluetooth: BT 1.1
• Video Codecs: MPEG-4, H.263 and RealNetworks
• Audio Codecs: QCELP, EVRC, AMR-NB, AAC, aacPlus and RealNetworks
• Hardware-based Image Signal Processor and JPEG encoder
• gpsOne position-location capabilities
• Removable User Identity Module (R-UIM)
• MIDI Synthesizer (72 polyphony)
• Support for digital stereo output up to 48 kHz
• MMC/SDIO removable storage support

Utilizing devices

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Diagram

Documents

Datasheets

• MSM6500 Diagram
• MSM6500 Chipset

Other

• Multimedia Platform Overview