LTE
Altair chipset finishes LTE Band Class 14 testing
The FourGee-3100/6200 LTE chipset supports both FDD and TDD variants on a single semiconductor and software platform in any 3GPP frequency band between 700 MHz and 2700 MHz. It implements a high-performance MIMO receive architecture and is based on a proprietary software-defined radio processor, offering performance that exceeds conventional communications DSP cores, yet consumes a [...]
LTE report
The Global Mobile Suppliers Association reports that there are now 269 LTE-enabled user devices, manufactured by 57 companies. It’s a six-fold jump in six months. The GSMA also noted the number of LTE-enabled tablets has doubled in the past six months.
Full Story at DailyWireless.org
Maxim acquires LTE chip firm
Genasic was founded by Ashok Dhuna who served as CEO. Dhuna was previously vice president of RF engineering at Sequans and prior to that he was chief technology officer and founder of Synad Technologies Ltd., a fabless wireless LAN chipmaker sold to STMicroelectronics in 2003.
Full Story at EE Times.
LightSquared accuses government of ‘rigged’ interference tests
The unanimous conclusion of the group was that the LightSquared planned system did interfere with many GPS receivers, and an analysis by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it would also interfere with several aircraft systems.
Read Full Story at The Register
Sprint’s LTE Rollout Detailed
Daily Wireless provides this interview taped by Converged Digest at 4G World in Chicago, Sprint’s VP of Network Development and Engineering, Iyad Tarazi, discusses the move to LTE and the newly announced agreement with Clearwire.
Sprint and Clearwire will work together to incorporate LTE-Advanced on the 2.6 GHz band, using Time Division multiplex. On Sprint’s 1.9 [...]
LTE Patent Battle
DailyWireless reports The dream of driving down LTE royalty levels dramatically is fading, says Caroline Gabriel at Rethink Research. Intel and Samsung have sought to spearhead an open, transparent and low royalty structure for WiMAX patents and formed the Open Patent Alliance (OPA) in June 2008.
That doesn’t seem to be the case with LTE. Qualcomm [...]
FCC Okays Terrestrial LTE for SkyTerra
Daily wireles reports Infineon, SkyTerra, and TerreStar Networks are jointly developing a multi-standard mobile platform based on Infineon’s software-defined-radio (SDR) technology. Infineon’s SDR mobile platform, called XMM SDR 200, requires only one single baseband device, the X-GOLD™ SDR 20 and one single RF transceiver.
Alcatel-Lucent introduces new converged radio technology that lets mobile service providers smoothly support any mix of 2G, 3G and 4G/LTE on the same network
Multi-technology radio module can be introduced in more than 700,000 Alcatel-Lucent based stations already installed worldwide, enabling a gradual shift from GSM to W-CDMA and LTE
Paris, February 4, 2010 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced the introduction of a new radio module, based on software defined radio (SDR) technology, that gives mobile [...]
mimoOn and Tensilica to Provide Low Power, Small Footprint and Programmable IP Solutions for Mobile Wireless Radios
DUISBURG, GERMANY– February 10, 2010 -mimoOn, a pioneer in LTE software implementations for programmable radio platforms, and Tensilica® Inc., a leader in programmable and efficient IP cores for advanced mobile wireless SOCs (system-on-chips), today announced a partnership to offer best-in-class LTE solutions for mobile wireless radios based on mimoOn’s mi!MobilePHY™ software and Tensilica’s newly announced [...]
mimoOn demonstrates LTE for pico base stations based on Texas Instruments’ DSPs
Duisburg, Germany – 9 February, 2010 – mimoOn, a pioneer in LTE software implementation for programmable radio platforms, announced that it will be demonstrating LTE for pico base stations at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next week. mimoOn will showcase its advanced LTE PHY implementation running on TI’s DSPs, February 15-18, 2010, in the [...]
mimoOn & CEVA to demonstrate Single-Core, Real-time LTE UE Platform
mimoOn, a pioneer in LTE software implementation for programmable radio platforms, and CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA), the leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, today announced a joint demonstration of a complete LTE UE PHY platform at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The demo will exhibit an end-to-end [...]
mimoOn to demonstrate its advanced low-cost LTE Test Mobile for Digital Dividend at Mobile World Congress 2010
Duisburg, Germany – 4 February, 2010: mimoOn, a pioneer in LTE software implementations for programmable radio platforms, announced it would demonstrate its LTE Test Mobile mi!TestMOBILE™ for the new European Digital Dividend (DD) frequencies at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. The demo can be seen on the mimoOn stand 2B17.
The DD spectrum at [...]
Tensilica Introduces ConnX Atlas Reference Architecture for LTE
Multi-Standard Programmable Radio Platform Also Supports Other Standards Including HSPA+
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 8, 2010 -Tensilica, Inc. today introduced its ConnX Atlas LTE (Long-Term Evolution) reference platform, a heterogeneous seven-core reference architecture for a complete multi-standard programmable radio for advanced mobile devices. Atlas is designed to support the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) LTE [...]
Multimode wireless and SDR success lies in software optimization
I have a nice quote in a Mobile Handset DesignLine article written by Fanny Mlinarsky.
Huawei Opens LTE Laboratory in North America
[PLANO, Texas – 27 July 2009] – Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, today announced the opening of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) laboratory located in Richardson, Texas. Operators and industry partners in North America are now able to further explore the potential of LTE technology and experience [...]
ZTE Launches Industry First LTE and EV-DO Rev.B Dual-Mode System at EXPO COMM Wireless Japan 2009
22 July 2009, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today announced that it has launched an industry-first LTE and EV-DO Rev.B Dual-Mode System at the opening of EXPO COMM Wireless Japan 2009, the only [...]
Tensilica Announces New High-Performance ConnX DSP Family for LTE and 4G SOC Designs
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – June 22, 2009 – Tensilica, Inc. today introduced a new family of high-performance DSPs (digital signal processors) IP (intellectual property) cores – the ConnX DSP family – that include standard cores, click-box configurable options or a starting point for customized Xtensa LX DPUs (dataplane processor units) for SOC (system-on-chip) [...]
Texas Instruments collaborates with Continuous Computing and mimoOn for HSPA and LTE femtocells
Integration of third parties’ software with TI DSPs offers femtocell OEMs reduced costs and faster time to market
Femtocells World Summit, LONDON (June 23, 2009) – Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) announced today the selection of Continuous Computing®, a leader in wireless protocol software, and mimoOn GmbH, a leader in software defined [...]
CEVA and Aricent to Demonstrate LTE PHY Platform for Cellular Handsets at LTE World Summit 2009
BERLIN, May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA), a leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores and Aricent™, a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications, announced today that the companies will demonstrate a licensable IP platform for LTE baseband terminals based on a [...]