PicoChip today announced that it is collaborating with mimoOn to deliver the industry’s first complete LTE (Long Term Evolution) basestation reference design. The new PC86xx familyx covers femtocells to multi-sector macrocells and is supported on the same common hardware platforms as picoChip’s WiMAX products. The system and its MIMO capabilities will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2008x in Barcelona, 11-14 February.
LTE is the 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) 4G architecture designed to improve the UMTS mobile phone standard and go beyond HSPA. LTE has significant commonality with WiMAX, both being based on OFDMA in the downlink, all-IP architecture together with MIMO and adaptive antenna systems (AAS). The PC86xx builds on picoChip’s success as the industry-standard WiMAX reference design, and both standards run on the same common hardware (picoChip PHY plus Wintegra MAC) platforms.
The PC86xx LTE design runs on the same picoChip and Wintegra hardware platforms as the companies’ industry standard WiMAX basestation reference designs. Both TDD and FDD modes are supported.
mimoOn GmbH is a pioneer in end-to-end full software implementation of advanced wireless communication solutions on multi-core DSP platforms. Its scalable, modular 3GPP LTE reference designs for basestations (eNB) and user terminals (UE) allow equipment manufacturers to benefit from the advantages of the Software Defined Radio approach.
Meanwhile, Texas Instruments has introduced new 65nm, single-core 1 GHz DSP for “4G” applications — potentially eliminating the need for a costly RISC co-processor. TI says their digital signal processors (DSPs) can be used for complex, multiprocessing beyond 3G cellular infrastructure applications such as HSPA/HSPA+, LTE and WiMAX Wave 2.
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