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Picochip delivers technology for the world's smallest base station
Picochip today announced the first in its next generation of picoXcell femtocell chips, the PC3008. The new device is optimized for high-volume cost-sensitive consumer applications and maintains Picochip’s leadership in this market as carrier deployments are accelerating.
picoChip attracts $20 million investment to accelerate growth
picoChip has announced that it has completed a $20 million funding round. Already the dominant supplier for femtocell silicon, supporting all the major HSPA carrier deployments, this additional investment will help picoChip extend its leadership and grasp the growing market opportunity in the femtocell sector.
picoChip appoints Toon as CEO
picoChip has announced it has appointed Nigel Toon to be the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and member of its Board, replacing Guillaume d'Eyssautier. Nigel joins picoChip from Icera, which he co-founded and where he was VP Sales and Marketing before heading the company’s Phone Business Unit.
picoChip President and CEO appointed to Global Semiconductor Alliance Board of Directors
picoChip as announced that the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA – formerly the FSA – Fables Semiconductor Association) has appointed Guillaume d’Eyssautier, its President and CEO, to the GSA Board of Directors. In addition to his new role, Mr. d′Eyssautier will continue to serve on GSA’s Europe, Middle East and Africa Leadership Council (EMEA).
picoChip and Continuous Computing to co-host Light Reading webinar on the technological challenges of femtocells
picoChip and Continuous Computing are inviting customers, press, and analysts to attend a Light Reading webinar, Building Converged Femtocell Devices, delivered by Rupert Baines (VP marketing, picoChip) and Manish Singh (VP field engineering, Continuous Computing). The date is Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. PST / 2:00 p.m. EST / 7:00 p.m. GMT.
picoChip readies industry’s first LTE femtocell reference design
picoChip today announced the availability of the industry’s first LTE femtocell and picocell reference designs, the PC8608 Home eNodeB and PC8618 eNodeB respectively. Both PC86xx family small-cell LTE reference designs build on picoChip’s successes as the leader in femtocells. Both products can be combined with picoChip’s HSPA products and run on the same common hardware platform as the company’s industry-standard WiMAX reference design...
Jitter-attenuating clock multiplier IC is a first says Silicon Laboratories
Silicon Laboratories has announced the industry’s first jitter-attenuating clock multiplier IC that generates any output frequency from any input frequency with 0.3 picosecond jitter performance. The Si53xx Any-Rate Precision Clocks product family features nine devices leveraging Silicon Laboratories’ proven DSPLL technology to offer the industry’s broadest portfolio of reconfigurable, frequency-agile precision clock sources. The Si53xx a...
XOs And VCXOs With Any-Rate Frequency Synthesis
Silicon Laboratories has announced the Si570/1 family, said to be the industry’s first user-programmable crystal oscillators (XO) and voltage-controlled crystal oscillators (VCXO) supporting any-rate frequency synthesis. Using patented DSPLL technology and an industry-standard I2C interface, a single device can generate any output frequency from 10 MHz to 1.4 GHz at jitter levels of 0.3 picoseconds rms. The Si570 Any-Rate XO and Si571 Any-Ra...
STMicroelectronics and bTendo to Develop Focus-Free Embedded Pico-Projector for Next-Generation Smart Phones
STMicroelectronics and bTendo Ltd. announced today that they have signed a development and license agreement to jointly develop the world’s smallest Pico Projector for smart phones and other portable consumer-electronics devices. The solution is based on bTendo’s innovative Scanning Laser Projection engine technology and ST’s leading MEMS (Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems) expertise, video processing know-how and semiconductor process tech...
3.3, 2.5 and 1.8-V Clock Generator Family
Texas Instruments has introduced a family of highly-programmable, one to four phase-lock loop (PLL) clock generator devices with the ability to generate up to nine output clock sources from a single input frequency. Each output can be programmed in-system for any clock frequency up to 230 MHz. These features provide a number of system benefits such as reduced power consumption, shorter lead time and the flexibility to easily upgrade the clock wit...