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Articles tagged with: Picochip
picoChip Secures US$20 Million in Funding
Femtocell developer, picochip has completed a US$20 million funding round. picochip's investors include financial investors, Atlas Venture, Highland Capital Partners, Pond Venture Partners, Scottish Equity Partners, and Rothschild plus strategic investors AT&T, Intel and Samsung. more
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picoChip Develops LTE Femtocell Development Kit
picochip has launched a LTE development system for base stations that will cover particularly small cell sizes. Many analysts and operators believe that LTE will require a dense network of small cells optimized for high-capacity data services to deliver on its full potential. The PC9608/9 is optimized for this 'metrozone' architecture (also called 'LTE femto'). more
Related Tags: lte, femtocells, tdd, modem, base
Femtocell Designs "sniff" out cells: Enables Self-Organizing Wireless Networks
picochip has announced three software reference designs that provide the first integrated network listen (or 'sniffer') capabilities for femtocells. The PC8210, PC8211 and PC8810 Radio Environment Scanners (RESs) enable femtocells to detect WCDMA, GSM and TD-SCDMA networks respectively. more
Related Tags: intel, wcdma, edge, td-scdma, femtocell, femtocells, chipset, son, handover
picoChip Shows Off Chinese 3G Standard Femtocell
picochip has shown off a TD-SCDMA based femtocell software reference design in China, and announced that Digimoc, a Chinese provider of femtocells, as its first publicly disclosed TD-SCDMA customer. Digimoc is using picochip's PC202 device and PHY software reference design in its femtocell product. more
Related Tags: wcdma, td-scdma, core-network, hsupa, femtocell, China
picoChip Introduces TD-SCDMA Femtocell Reference Design
picochip has launched a TD-SCDMA based femtocell reference design, the first to support this standard. The new design was developed in China at picochip's Beijing design center. With this introduction picochip now supports all three 3G standards families: WCDMA (HSPA) through the picochip PC8208/8209, cdma2000 via GWT partnership, and now TD-SCDMA with the PC8808. picochip also supports WiMAX Waves 1 and 2 with its PC6530 and PC6532 single chip reference designs respectively. more
Related Tags: wcdma, abi-research, td-scdma, core-network, hsupa, femtocell, cdma2000, femtocells, China
Femtocells Set to Challenge Wi-Fi Cellphones
Strategy Analytics has released a report which notes that low-cost femtocells could emerge as an attractive alternative to voice over Wi-Fi (VoFi) in future homes. picochip has developed inexpensive baseband processors for very low-cost femtocell base stations that can be installed in the home. These femtocells have the potential to reduce the demand for cellphones that include Wi-Fi, which many in the cellphone industry believe will emerge in high volumes over the next several years to support the convergence of fixed and mobile communications. more
Related Tags: analytics, strategy-analytics, femtocell, femtocells, chipsets
picoChip and Kineto Team in UMA-Enabled Femtocell Market
Kineto Wireless and picochip say that they are working to develop a UMA-enabled Femtocell reference design. The reference design, based on picochip's single-chip solutions and Kineto's UMA client software will enable 3G femtocells to overcome network integration barriers to accelerate mass market adoption. more
Related Tags: core-network, abi-research, femtocell, 3gpp, femtocells
Willtek Adds TD-SCDMA to 3G Handset Testers
Willtek Communications has added support for TD-SCDMA to its range of software-defined 3G cellular handset testers.As well as TD-SCDMA, Willtek's testers based on picochip programmable baseband technology already support WCDMA and 1xEV-DO, making the company unique in its product breadth. more
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picoChip Signs WiMAX Supply Contract
picochip says that it has signed a partnership agreement with Korea Telecom (KT) to develop WiBro / WiMAX access points, sometimes called Femtocells or Home-Basestations. Femtocells are small, low-cost basestations, intended to be used in residential or corporate environments where high-speed coverage would otherwise be limited. WiBro, the South Korean wireless telecommunications standard, is compatible with WiMAX 802.16e-2005 (mobile WiMAX). more
Related Tags: femtocell, oem, femtocells, kt, korea-telecom
picoChip and ARM Announce Wireless Chipsets
picochip and ARM have jointly announced that picochip's next generation picoArray flexible products for WiMAX and WCDMA infrastructure will incorporate the ARM926EJ-S processor, to create the first single-chip, software-defined solution for advanced wireless systems. The new solution will enable carriers to build-out their infrastructure based on the current 802.16d WiMAX standard, and quickly upgrade their equipment to support mobility once the new 802.16e standard is complete. more
Related Tags: 802.16e