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Texas Instruments Develops New Femtocell Devices TMCnet Contributor Texas Instruments Incorporated announced plans to build femtocell devices based on the new multicore System-on-a-Chip architecture.
This combines the fixed and floating point capabilities in the highest performing central processing unit in the industry, according to the company. Texas Instruments (News - Alert) is building these new scalable devices to simplify the product designs on a single chip to make its commitment to the growing femtocell market stronger. This new devices can support from 8 to 64 users. This new devices from Texas Instruments will also include an ARM (News - Alert) processor and digital radio front end together with a comprehensive solution software that's based on the filed-proven Layer 1 libraries from Texas Instruments and a third party reference design.
Sanjeev Verma, the vice president of femtocell business and the co-founder of Airvana (News - Alert), said that they have built the first commercially available CDMA femtocell capable of supporting CDMA2000 1x and EV-DO at the same time by collaborating closely with Texas Instruments over the past years. Texas Instruments' platform has helped Airvana stay ahead of the cost as well as the performance curve while providing the supply chain stability to back high volume deployment at numerous Tier 1 service providers. The family of multicore femtocell solutions of Texas Instruments comprise of a full lineup of complementary analog solutions like RF products,data converters, clocks and amplifiers, power management, also support for Linux and software solutions from Texas Instruments third parties. The product lineup works with all major 2G, 3G and 4G systems such as GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX (News - Alert), FDD-LTE and TDD-LTE.
These products are code compatible with other Texas Instruments signal processors (DSPs) for the wireless infrastructure market. This guarantees that any previous software investments made by the customers of Texas Instruments in picocell, macrocell or femtocell base stations can be used again.
These new femtocell devices based on the new multicore SoC platform of Texas Instruments will start sampling in the first half of 2011.
Earlier this month, Texas Instruments revised its quarterly earnings and revenue estimates that placed the numbers at the higher end of previous projections. Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anuradha's article, please visit her columnist page. Edited by Marisa Torrieri |