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picoChip’s PC960x LTE femtocell wins Best Enabling Product/Technology Award at LTE Awards
picoChip’s PC960x product received the Best Enabling Product/Technology Award at the Informa LTE Awards during LTE World Summit in Amsterdam this week. The PC960x is the industry’s first reference design for an LTE “small cell” basestation or femtocell. The PC960x is a significant step forward as a technology enabler - allowing carriers to build their LTE networks in a faster and more cost-effective way than traditional approaches.
Picochip successfully participates in second femtocell plugfest
Picochip announces that it has participated in the second plugfest, which focused on femtocell management. The event was run by the Femto Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide. The series of plugfests aim to cultivate an effective ecosystem of standardised femtocells which provide operators and consumers with a wider choice of femtocell products, while also facilitating economies of ...
Picochip expands worldwide: Grows in UK and China, opens new UK lab and test facility
Picochip has announced significant expansion in its worldwide operations. The company has moved to a new headquarters and engineering center in its home city of Bath, opened an advanced test laboratory in Cambridge, UK, and announced plans to double the size of its development centre in Beijing, China. Picochip’s picoXcell(TM) products have become the de facto industry standard for 3G femtocells, with 80 per cent market share and deployment in ...
picoChip delivers complete range of next generation femtocell solutions
picoChip unveiled three new products that allow its customers to address the complete range of femtocell requirements via a single design platform. The introduction of two new picoXcell system-on-chip (SoC) devices and an integrated suite of HSPA+ femtocell access point (FAP) software creates the industry’s most complete family of system-level femtocell solutions.
picoChip secures $27 million of new investment
picoChip has announced that it has secured $27 million of new investment in fourth round funding. Highland Capital Partners led the financing round together with undisclosed key strategic investors. Existing investors include Atlas Venture, Pond Venture Partners, Scottish Equity Partners, Rothschild, Intel and AT&T. The new money will fund future growth.
picoChip's femtocell and 4G capability shown at Mobile World Congress ‘09
picoChip demonstrated its leadership in femtocell and 4G technology at Mobile World Congress ’09 with the announcement of an eight user HSPA femtocell solution, and demonstrations of both FDD and TDD variants of LTE. picoChip also showcased the PC302, a cost-optimized SoC solution for HSPA femtocells, while its technology was used to power products and demonstrations on more than 20 stands at the show.
Roke Launches World’s First Wide Area Coverage Femtocell and Extends Area 40,000 Times
Roke Manor Research has developed the world’s first 3G Wide Area Coverage Femtocell capability. Using picoChip’s technology as the development platform, Roke’s reference design has a 40km range which delivers more than 40,000 times the area covered of most other femtocells. It is also the first to support full mobility at speeds of up to 120 kilometres per hour, allowing mobile users to travel while connected to the 3G base stations.
Picochip extends lead in public access femtocells and announces dual-mode LTE/HSPA+ capabilities
Building on its market leadership in residential femtocells, Picochip is extending its technology into the more traditional part of the public network, adding support for Iub network architectures to its recently-launched picoXcell(tm) PC333 HSPA+ device, and announcing plans for an optimized dual-mode LTE/HSPA+ basestation.
Picochip technology powers LTE femtocell from Airspan at MWC11
Picochip has today announced that its picoArray technology has been selected to implement LTE and other wireless processing in Airspan’s new multi-standard ‘small cell’ basestation, the AirSynergy. Designed to deliver high-performance data capacity to densely populated urban hotspots, AirSynergy is easy to deploy in metropolitan areas on buildings, strand-mounted from utility poles or on lamp posts.
Single Input/Output Any-Rate Clock Multiplier from Silicon Laboratories
Silicon Laboratories has announced the expansion of its portfolio of reconfigurable, frequency-agile precision clocks to include a single input, single output jitter-attenuating clock multiplier IC. The new Si5319 Any-Rate Precision Clock is capable of generating any output frequency from either a crystal or reference clock input with 0.3 picoseconds jitter generation.