LTE
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 [...]
ZTE is First to Pass Third-Party UE TD-LTE Test
First Company in the Industry to Support 20M Bandwidth
13 May 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 is the first company to successfully complete and pass the TD-LTE Phase I [...]
ZTE Wins AVEA 3G Deal
SHENZHEN, China — ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”), clinches another major customer win in one of the fastest growing markets in Europe. The company today announced that AVEA, one of the Top 3 largest telecom operators in Turkey, has awarded ZTE a WCDMA commercial contract. In line with the company’s strategic plan to expand its WCDMA coverage, [...]
ZTE Readies Fresh Assault on Europe, US
Light Reading Europe reports Just last month the company announced a $15 billion credit line that will be used to help fund further R&D and international expansion. The company also outlined its key areas of technology development, including: PON (Passive Optical Networks); IMS (IP Multimedia Susbystem); next-generation mobile technologies such as LTE-Advanced and SDR (software-defined [...]
Ascom Introduces High Performance LTE Scanner
Ascom Inc. announced The new scanner design supports LTE baseband scanning in the 700 MHz bands while simultaneously supporting EvDO scanning of the 850/1900 MHz bands, simplifying deployment of multi-mode LTE/EvDO systems and offering advanced baseband decoding analysis for LTE deployment. An enhancement of Ascom’s existing leading RF scanner design, this third generation Software-Defined Radio [...]
Alcatel-Lucent Infrastructure Uses SDR for CDMA to LTE Upgrade
Telepedia.ro reports Alcatel-Lucent’s innovative “Converged RAN” offerings support multiple technology standards in a common base station platform and the delivery of a wide variety of new wireless broadband services while simultaneously reducing power consumption and lowering operating costs.
This Converged RAN uses software defined radio (SDR) technology to enable CDMA service providers to deploy one technology [...]
ZTE Unveils North American Strategy for LTE
ZTE USA announced with a Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform-based UMTS solution already developed and devices expected in the next 12-18 months, ZTE is positioned to provide end-to-end solutions for North American operators looking [...]
Infineon Emerges with Satellite + Terrestrial SDR design win
Infineon announced that they are working with TerreStar on an SDR platform aimed at satellite-terrestrial handsets operating with multiple cellular and satellite-based communications technologies including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, HSDPA, HSUPA and GMR1-2G/3G. One year ago TerreStar announced the selection of [...]
Agilent EDA software targets SDR PHY development
Agilent announced software specifically targeted at speeding up SDR PHY development – particularly LTE and WiMAX.
The new platform delivers modeling, design-flow improvements and baseband IP libraries that can cut months from physical layer (PHY) design time for high-performance communications algorithms and system architectures in both wireless and aerospace/defense applications.
Pricing for typical configurations starts at approximately [...]
Samsung Partners with Sandbridge to Develop Next-Gen LTE-Capable Platform
Tarrytown, NY, Suwon, S. Korea, February, 16th, 2009 – Sandbridge announced today that Samsung has partnered with Sandbridge to develop LTE capable platform based on Sandbridge cutting-edge technology. Specifically, Samsung will showcase several LTE devices, including the Sandbridge’s platform at the upcoming Mobile World Congress to be held in Barcelona, February 16-19. LTE communication system [...]
Mobile World Congress (MWC): Observations from Barcelona
Last week the wireless industry met in Barcelona for the annual Mobile World Congress. I had the good fortune to attend the show and my company Sandbridge was an exhibitor.
The big announcement at the show was Nokia’s license to Broadcom of their modem IP. This legitimizes Broadcom’s cellular offerings on top of an already strong [...]
T3G Completes World’s First TD-LTE End-to-End Application Demonstration on Multimode Soft Modem Platform
T3G announced that it is the leading TD-SCDMA terminal system solution provider, and has completed the world’s first TD-LTE [...]