A One-chip HSPA Solution for Open OS Enabled Mobile Devices

Ericsson has shown off an integrated and verified one-chip HSPA platform, supporting all major Open Operating Systems - and the first product based on the recently announced Open OS collaboration with Texas Instruments (TI).

The company says that by integrating its HSPA modem with TI's OMAP3430 applications processor into a one-chip solution, the U380 is among the smallest and most powerful multimedia platforms on the market in this category.

Robert Puskaric, head of Ericsson's mobile platforms business, says: "This is truly a next generation platform for the rapidly growing Open OS market. The combination of powerful multimedia performance and Open OS capabilities in an extremely small package makes the U380 platform hard to match."

Richard Kerslake, general manager for the TI-Ericsson business, TI's Wireless Terminals Business Unit, says "The combination of Texas Instruments' and Ericsson's key competences has really paid off. TI's OMAP3430 processing power, coupled with Ericsson's HSPA access technology in a pre-verified and tested platform supporting all major open operating systems will provide great opportunities for device manufacturers worldwide."

The U380 platform is expected to be commercially available in the first half of 2009.

Posted to the site on 8th February 2008