Renesas Technology supports Icera Espresso cellular WWAN mini card

Renesas’s Draco offers a highly integrated solution, simplifying the use of EDGE RF in any application and featuring auto calibration mechanism to ensure fast time-to-market.

Stéphane Catala, RF Marketing Manager in Renesas Technology Europe said: “Renesas is proud to support Icera with our Draco EDGE solution for their Espresso Cellular WWAN mini card. Draco helps to achieve the optimised solution required. DRACO solutions offer any application the best in class EDGE RF solution, ease of use and high efficiency.”

Renesas was the first supplier to develop the polar loop architecture for EDGE, and the latest generation makes a significant step in silicon integration to create a small size, compact design and a very low number of external components.

The polar loop operation and calibration uses patented auto calibration, removing the need for measurement equipment on the production line and improving performance. The system is easy to design and highly stable in manufacture.

Built around the Icera Livanto ICE8020 device and the Icera Adaptive Wireless™ HSDPA/EDGE wireless soft modem solution, the Espresso platform delivers the highest performance in multimode 2G / 3G networks. Espresso supports a full EDGE Class 12 capability and is unique in the industry today in offering full support for 3GPP-defined enhanced Type 3 receiver technology, supporting simultaneous receive diversity and equalisation for the highest throughput in real network situations.