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picoChip develops first public access femtocell solution
picoChip today unveiled the PC333, the first chip specifically designed to extend the femtocell into the realm of public access infrastructure such as metro femto, rural femto and strand-mounted systems. The PC333 System-on-Chip (SoC) device is the first femtocell chip to support 32 channels (scalable to 64) for simultaneous voice and HSPA+ data, the first to support MIMO, the first to support soft-handover and the first to conform to the Local A...
picoChip brings LTE closer with complete femtocell development system
picoChip has launched a fully-featured LTE development system for small cells, helping OEMs bring to market the next generation of highly cost-effective LTE basestations. Combining the company’s field-proven OFDMA technology and market leadership in femtocells, the PC9608/9 accelerates time to market of small form factor LTE products (“Home eNode B”) optimized for metropolitan, enterprise and residential applications.
Design service provides access to advanced DSP technology for software radio applications
Cambridge Consultants has become the first authorized design centre for picoChip's multi-core digital signal processor (DSP), picoArray. picoArray devices incorporate arrays of DSP elements, delivering extremely high performance. This makes them ideal for the computationally-intensive tasks involved in advanced wireless signal processing, while also providing adaptability that can be employed to accommodate operational problems such as varying ch...
Picochip and ASTRI announce availability of first commercial-grade LTE small cell reference design
Picochip and Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) has announced that they have successfully completed the design and validation of the PC8609, the industry’s first commercial-grade LTE FDD femtocell physical layer software. The PC8609 software is now generally available (GA) to Picochip’s customers around the world.
picoChip wins three awards at Best of WiMAX World Europe Awards
picoChip has won the Chip Design, Industry Innovation and Industry Choice Awards at the Best of WiMAX World Awards 2007, taking home 50% of the awards available. The awards recognize leaders in the development and deployment of WiMAX technologies.
picoChip and Kineto team in UMA-enabled femtocell market
Kineto Wireless, Inc., the key innovator and leading supplier of UMA technology, and picoChip today announced the companies are working to develop a UMA-enabled Femtocell reference design. The reference design, based on picoChip’s industry leading single-chip solutions and Kineto’s industry leading UMA client software will enable 3G femtocells to overcome network integration barriers to accelerate mass market adoption.
picoChip powers Xinwei McWiLL basestations for 2008 Olympics
picoChip announced today that Xinwei Telecom Technology has selected the PC203 as the baseband processor in the latest revision of its McWiLL basestation design. McWiLL (Multi-carrier Wireless Information Local Loop) is a Chinese-developed mobile broadband wireless access standard, optimized for extremely wide area coverage, which is being deployed for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
picoChip CEO appointed to the GSA EMEA Leadership Council
Guillaume d'Eyssautier, president and CEO, picoChip has been appointed to the newly named GSA EMEA Leadership Council. The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) recently renamed from Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) and expanded its leadership council for Europe to be the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Leadership Council, which reflects the multiple countries within EMEA that are playing a more significant and growing role within the...
Continuous Computing and picoChip Partner to Introduce Integrated Femtocell Reference Solution with Complete Protocol Stacks
Continuous Computing, global provider of integrated systems and services that enable telecom equipment manufacturers to rapidly deploy Next Generation Networks (NGN), and picoChip, the leading supplier of femtocell silicon, have announced that they are partnering to bring to market an integrated High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) femtocell software reference design. Through a level of collaboration not yet seen in the marketplace, the joint femtocel...
picoChip signs WiMAX partnership agreement with China GrenTech
picoChip has announced that it has signed a development partnership agreement with China GrenTech. Based on picoChip WiMAX software-upgradeable technology, China GrenTech will develop radio frequency solutions. The two companies will work together in the joint development of complete WiMAX solutions targeted at the wideband wireless access market.