Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) seeking Cat-4 LTE (News - Alert) multi-mode modems that can offer 150Mbits download and 50Mbits upload for both smartphones and data centric devices while facilitating for enhanced battery life, now have a better option available in the market as Renesas Mobile Corporation has announced a new offering, SP2532.
Renesas Mobile’s new SP2532 is the third generation of the company’s GSM/HSPA+/LTE FDD/ LTE TDD multi-mode modem that not only provides high speed broadband on-the-go with enhanced battery life, but can also deliver sustained Cat-4 throughputs of 150Mbits download and 50Mbits upload for both smartphones and data centric devices, such as mobile tablets or dongles.
As a supplier of advanced cellular semiconductor solutions and platforms, Renesas Mobile incorporated: a highly integrated baseband modem, an RF subsystem containing the RF integrated chip, front end module, a power amplifier and a power management sub-system into the SP2532.
Currently available to OEMs for design-in, the new SP2532 Cat-4 LTE quad-mode modem features: a very small footprint that is 45 percent smaller than the previous generation SP2531; very low power consumption; and high levels of integration.
As quoted by Renesas Mobile, the new SP2532 modem leverages Cat-4 in a 20MHz bandwidth. This helps the system to achieve 20 percent more efficient power consumption compared to its contenders and requires just 2mA per Mbit. This enhances battery life even while downloading large files such as videos, music and browsing complex webpages, thereby facilitating users to stay connected for longer when on a battery charge.
Elucidating about the company’s new offering, Heikki Tenhunen, senior VP at Renesas Mobile, said in a statement, “This next generation slim modem platforms, the SP2532 will allow OEMs to design compelling mobile devices which take advantage of lightening quick throughput and low latency for interactive games, rapid web browsing and video streaming and data-rich enterprise application.”
Tenhunen added, “In addition to enabling exciting new use cases at the lowest power possible, the small chipset footprint also offers the possibility to create new form factors and supports all key operator requirements for 2013 and 2014 including VoLTE, SRVCC and OTDOA.”
Inheriting the key attributes of previous generations’ extensive certification and testing on worldwide networks, the new SP2532 is compatible as well as pre-integrated with all the currently available open market application processors. This facilitates customers to leverage their existing software and hardware assets while upgrading to LTE or even helps them select the most appropriate processor to meet the needs of new devices.
In recent news as reported by TMCnet, Renesas Mobile demonstrated the advanced LTE functionality of its MP5232 chipset utilizing the Anritsu (News - Alert) MD8475A multimode network simulator at the 2013 International CES event.
Edited by Brooke Neuman