Articles tagged with: Picochip

Mindspeed Technologies Buying UK Based Picochip

­Semiconductor firm, Mindspeed Technologies is buying UK-based picochip, a supplier of integrated system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for small cell base stations, for a purchase price of approximately $51.8 million, plus a potential earnout payment of up to $25 million payable in the first calendar quarter of 2013.  more

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London needs 70,000 small cells to Deliver 4G Phone Services

­The UK's capital city, London will need an additional 70,000  small cells across the city to deliver LTE based 4G services, including 2,000 nodes covering the London Underground railway by 2015 according to picocell vendor, picochip.  more

Related Tags: picocell, london, london-underground, olympics, UK


Picochip Squeezes a 3G Base Station into a USB Dongle

­picochip has shown off its vision for next-generation femtocells, including picoXcell technology that will allow its customers to create an entire 3G cellular basestation in an ultra-small form factor such as a USB dongle.  more

Related Tags: femtocell, hspa, lte, 4g, modems


Picochip and Wavesat Achieve Key LTE Interoperability Testing Milestone

picochip and Wavesat say that they have successfully completed interoperability testing (IOT) between picochip's PC960x LTE small cell base station solution and Wavesat's Odyssey 9000 family of UE chipsets.  more

Related Tags: wavesat, lte


Picochip opens new UK lab and test facility

UK based femotcell vendor, picochip has moved to a new headquarters building in its home town of Bath, opened an advanced test laboratory in Cambridge, and announced plans to double the size of its development centre in Beijing, China.  more

Related Tags: cambridge, femotcell, shenzhen, usa, UK


picoChip and Cambridge Consultants collaborate on LTE Femtocell enhancements

Femtocell vendor, picochip says that it has collaborated with Cambridge Consultants to enhance its PC960x LTE development platform. The enhancements deliver further optimisations to the PC960x platform for 'small cell' basestation architectures.  more

Related Tags: femotcell, cambridge-consultants, lte, wireless, cambridge, military


picoChip partners with FemTel on TD-SCDMA femtocell

picochip has announced that its technology is being used by China's FemTel Communications in a TD-SCDMA femotcell. The company says that it is being tested by an unnamed company - although as only one operator in the country has a TD-SCDMA license, it isn't difficult to work out who the customer is.  more

Related Tags: femotcell, td-scdma, china-mobile, China


Roke Launches World's First Wide Area Coverage Femtocell

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 by 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.  more

Related Tags: roke-manor-research, femtocell, wireless, coverage, emergency, emergency-services


Wavesat Announces Partnership with picoChip for LTE Demos and Testing

UK-based picochip and Wavesat have announced the signing of a MoU to conduct end-to-end LTE interoperability testing. The initial focus of this forthcoming cooperation is to demonstrate over the air interoperability between picochip eNodeB and Wavesat UE with both TDD and FDD modes of operation on a range of E-UTRA bands.  more

Related Tags: wavesat, lte


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

Related Tags: pioneer, europe


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