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May 18, 2009

Percello Teams with S3 for Femtocell Baseband Processor


Silicon & Software Ltd. (S3), a provider of semiconductor chip design services, has announced it completed the Integrated Circuit (IC) implementation for Percello’s (News - Alert) latest PRC6000 chipset.



 
Percello is a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) / Long Term Evolution (LTE (News - Alert)) femtocell System-on-a-chip (SoC) vendor that develops low cost femtocell baseband processors.  
 
The company is said to have chosen S3 because of its proven expertise and experience in delivering first-time-right designs.
 
Percello’s PRC6000 is a SoC solution specially designed for the emerging 3G UMTS and HSPA+ femtocell market and serves both as the central processor in a standalone femtocell and as a sub-system element for RGW system.
 
Percello’s PRC6000 chip is a highly integrated device supporting all femtocell backhauling architectures and functions such as timing, security and others. The chipset is compliant to 3GPP HNB Rel-8 baseline, it supports 8 users simultaneously and is capable of delivering 21.6Mbps downlink and 5.76 Mbps uplink.
 
"Achieving a first-pass silicon success on such a highly complex SoC necessitates high expertise and special skills during the backend phase. S3 proved to be the perfect partner for taping out the PRC6000 in TSMC's 65nm CMOS." said Rafy Carmon, vice president of R&D at Percello Ltd.
 
"S3 committed to Percello's aggressive schedule and low-power low-cost silicon goals. We are very pleased with the cooperation and collaboration between the engineering teams which facilitated our very fast design cycle."
 
Percello signed this collaboration agreement with S3 to deal with all of the complex issues associated with very deep sub-micron SoC design such as 65nm, clock distribution, DDR2 and handoff to the foundry.
 
“Percello’s PRC6000 is the most advanced chipset for femtocell basebands currently available. S3 is proud to have been able to deliver the IC implementation first-time-right and ahead of schedule to enable Percello to get to market faster and continue to grow,” said James Blair, director of Consumer Silicon Services.
 
“With a strong focus on performance and low power S3 offered Percello a one-stop shop solution to address all of their needs around this complex SoC design.”

Jai C.S. is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Jai's articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Jessica Kostek




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