Lime Microsystems announces availability of multi-band multi-standard transceiver with fully integrated ADC and DAC for femtocell applications

As more femtocell products come onto the market, cost reductions have become critical, both for established players launching second and third generation products as well as for new entrants seeking to enter the market competitively, says Dr. Ebrahim Bushehri, CEO of Lime Microsystems. The LMS6002D transceiver meets our customers' demands for cost reduction by increasing the level of integration and reducing component count while maintaining high performance and design flexibility.

The LMS6002D can be digitally configured to operate in the full range of frequency bands between 375MHz and 4GHz, with 16 user-selectable bandwidths of up to 28MHz. It can therefore transmit and receive data across all WCDMA and CDMA bands, as well as those used or planned for WiMAX and LTE. This removes the need for individual transceiver chips for each of the different bands, and allows a small cell base station to be reconfigured rapidly and simply. The resulting reduction in bill of materials reduces costs and inventory for OEMs.

The LMS6002D features high performance dual 12-bit ADC and DAC blocks which provide the necessary multiplexed parallel interface to all currently available baseband ICs on the market for femtocell applications. It is packaged in a 9x9mm 116-pin DQFN package, and is available alongside an evaluation platform and reference design. Samples are available now.