Qualcomm and Teleepoch
Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October
6, 2007
MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband
Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6,
2007
Brazilian government to
publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007
KTF 3G service suffers
from technical problems, October 6, 2007
Argentina’s Personal
lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007
Russia has it's first 3G
network, October 6, 2007
AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent
as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007
Enea Extends License Agreement
with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007
LG to unveil premium handsets
in Brazil, October 2, 2007
KTF 3G subscribers doubled
in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007
3G policy in India will
be non-uniform, October 2, 2007
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picoChip's new processor array for software-defined basestations
October 16, 2003
picoChip Designs announced the world's most powerful processing device
for wireless infrastructure. It forms the core of the most comprehensive
hardware and software reference design platform for 3G equipment manufacturers,
enabling significant economic and time-to-market savings.
Peter Claydon, co-founder and chief architect at picoChip, speaking at
this week's Microprocessor Forum 2003 said, "At 42GMACs per second
the PC102 delivers five to ten times the price-performance of any other
device on the market today. It will take four years of Moore's Law improvements
for conventional architectures to reach this point. The PC101 has been
very successful and we are very happy with the way that customers are
using it in a number of designs; through these engagements we have learnt
a lot, which has defined the architecture of the PC102, the latest member
of the picoArray family."
It is a true MIMD, highly parallel, data driven architecture that means
that designs are predictable and designers can achieve maximum performance.
For example, the PC102 delivers 146GIPs, which equates to simultaneous,
sustained, operations of more than 30GIPs, 41.6GMACs and 71.6Gconvolutions/s.
This is supported by nearly 7Tbits/s internal interconnect and more than
20 Gbit/s continuous real-time I/O. It is very easy to programme in standard
ANSI C, a completely familiar process with industry standard tools and
library function formats. These allow applications to be easily and efficiently
developed, simulated, compiled, verified and tested in a single environment.
Time to market is further accelerated through the use of picoChip's extensive
software libraries and 3GPP-compliant software reference designs for WCDMA
FDD, including HSDPA.
Will Strauss, principal analyst at Forward Concepts, Tempe, Arizona,
USA previously stated, "picoChip's single-chip design looks elegant
and it claims to 'do it all'… If everything they say is true, they
have a formidable product." More recently Strauss supported that
statement by adding, "With PC101 picoChip has demonstrated its real
capability, both in hardware and software, and with the advances in the
PC102 I would expect to see them increase market share."
Peter Claydon, co-founder and Chief Architect at picoChip, concluded,
"picoChip was founded by experts in 3G systems engineering - unlike
some products, our offering is a complete solution, with world-class architecture
and performance, a rich tool-chain and comprehensive system software.
With all the market pressures the benefits to manufacturers are clear:
we dramatically reduce the cost of a basestation, we accelerate their
time to market and we deliver the strategically critical goal of a reprogrammable
software-defined basestation."
3G basestations are approximately 100 times more complex than GSM equivalents
with respect to signal processing. Conventionally, this type of processing
would be done by a fixed-function ASIC, but the rapidly changing specifications
for 3G, together with the high set-up costs of state-of-the-art ASIC technology,
make this impractical. Instead, manufacturers use general-purpose programmable
devices such as FPGAs or DSPs. However, because even the fastest parts
do not have the processing power required for 3G, a huge number of expensive
devices is needed, and manufacturers end up shipping at a loss. picoChip's
offering is attractive because it's faster to develop, cheaper and less
power hungry than today's solutions, and has sufficient processing power
to handle these demanding tasks.
According to Dell'Oro the world infrastructure market was $24.6bn in
'03, and rises to $32.5bn in '07 (+7% CAGR). WCDMA grows from 36% to 71%
of this to $23bn (27%CAGR).
The picoChip design platform combines high-performance processor optimised
for wireless, with a rich programming environment (using standard ANSI
C) and comprehensive system libraries. These allow applications to be
easily and efficiently developed, simulated, compiled, verified and tested
in a single environment. In addition to WCDMA FDD and HSDPA, reference
designs for TD-SCDMA, 802.16 and other standards are under development.
It provides a speedy, cost-competitive and low risk route to generate
a fully compliant "carrier class" 3G basestation. The system
is also very appropriate for any other advanced wireless technology, including
4G research and military software defined radio (SDR or JTRS).
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