PMC-Sierra Introduces a Reference Design Kit to Accelerate the Design of 3G Wireless Base Stations

date: December 17, 2001

PMC-Sierra announced the PM2360-KIT Gandalf reference design kit, a full reference platform for advanced 3G wireless base station designs based on PMC-Sierra's PM7815 PALADIN-15 product.

The Gandalf reference design kit enables system developers to design highly efficient and low-cost digital multi-carrier base station designs. This turn-key kit provides the essential components for the base station designer to prototype an advanced linearized multi-carrier transmitter sub-system for W-CDMA and cdma2000 applications. The designer only needs to add a signal source and a simple, low-cost, Class-AB high power amplifier (HPA) module.

The Gandalf development evaluation board integrates PMC-Sierra's PALADIN-15 chip, which eliminates transmitter distortions and improves spectral efficiency in wireless base transceiver stations (BTS) at dramatically lower power and cost with higher efficiency than existing implementations. The PALADIN-15 chip design enables 15 MHz multi-carrier W-CDMA and cdma2000 applications without using costly, power-hungry, feed-forward radio frequency (RF) amplifiers. The PALADIN-15 chip provides all of the core digital adaptive predistortion and analog quadrature modulator (AQM) compensation functions required for linearized multi-carrier transmitter architectures. The reference kit also includes a complete wideband radio reference board that is performance matched to the PALADIN-15 chip and connects directly to the Gandalf development evaluation board.

The Gandalf development evaluation board system enables BTS control processor software developers to integrate and test the PALADIN control software in a RF system before the digital hardware is ready. This initial software development environment can be either on a PC or another processor. In a PC environment all the necessary software drivers are provided to communicate with the Gandalf board by a standard data interface.

PMC-Sierra's PALADIN Family

PMC-Sierra's wireless base station devices include the PM7800 PALADIN-10 and PM7815 PALADIN-15 chip solutions. The PALADIN-10 is suitable for up to 2-carrier W-CDMA and up to 6-carrier IS-95/cdma2000 multi-carrier systems. The PALADIN-15 is suitable for up to 3-carrier W-CDMA/UMTS and up to 9-carrier IS-95/cdma2000 systems.

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