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 announces HSDPA: 14Mbps with software-defined 3G basestation
September 13, 2003
picoChip Designs announced the industry's first High Speed Downlink Packet
Access (HSDPA) solution, an extension to the company's recently introduced
"3G basestation on a CD" reference design. HSDPA, also referred to "3.5G",
is a packet-based mode for WCDMA Release 5 which increases data rates
to up to 14Mbit/s for intensive multimedia services and has been heralded
as the future of 3G.
Dr Rodger Sykes, CEO, picoChip commented: "All key manufacturers are
currently struggling to deliver HSDPA. One of the key strengths of the
picoChip offering is the speed of development. The "basestation on a CD"
can reduce development time by 50%, which provides a significant deployment
advantage to our OEM customers. Furthermore, once picoChip products are
used in the field they can be seamlessly updated - saving on "fork lift"
upgrade costs and eliminating worries about interoperability or obsolescence."
"Everyone is concerned that the demand for mobile data will out pace
revenue growth", stated Jason Chapman, wireless analyst for Gartner. "HSDPA
allows operators to dramatically increase the number of higher data rate
users on the same radio carrier signal - significantly improving the economics.
This has been expected to be a slow development - anything that can accelerate
the timeline is significant".
The "basestation on a CD" includes tested algorithms and source code
for WCDMA FDD and HSDPA. Current development times for a basestation can
be 24 months or more, with budgets of many tens of millions of Dollars:
this solution dramatically accelerates development and saves costs. OEMs
can be more profitable, more responsive, with reduced time-to-market,
while operators will be able to provide advanced services at lower cost
and higher profitability and users benefit from faster services.
The picoChip design platform combines a 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. The picoArray processor is the fastest embedded
processor on the market, delivering 300 Giga-operations per second and
30 Giga multiply- accumulates per second - approximately ten times the
performance of any other device. In addition to WDCMA FDD and HSDPA, reference
designs for TD-SCDMA, 802.16 and other standards are under development.
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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3G Motorola A920
