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To offer better cellular access in homes or small business environments, Pulse Electronics Corporation, a provider of electronic components, provides engineers with an application-based sales (ABS (News - Alert)) tool for designing a femtocell base station. This tool can be downloaded from  the Pulse Electronics website.

According to the press release, the application links key components and other products used in wireless home networking applications. Details regarding how to use the products within the application are easily accessed. This ensures the best fit when designing femtocell base stations. The tool provides a block diagram for the application. When the user clicks on a specific part in the diagram, a full range of products appear with complete information for each one; from there the customer can access data sheets and perform an online stock check, simplifying the selection process.

For example, if the user clicks on “LAN components” a range of surface mount and through-hole transformer magnetic options are displayed, including Ethernet magnetic transformers and RJ45 with integrated magnetics, while if “WiFi (News - Alert)/cellular” is selected, a variety of antenna solutions appear.

A femtocell is a small cellular base station designed for use in homes or small business environments where cellular access is often limited. Telecommunication carriers are deploying increasing numbers of femtocell base stations to resolve network coverage issues.

In a press release, Mark Jackson, Pulse (News - Alert) Electronics worldwide director of field application engineers, said that Pulse Electronics designs and manufactures almost all the key components needed for a femtocell base station and using the Pulse Electronics application tool for constructing a femtocell base station practically eliminates dropped calls and provides access to a local high speed WiFi hotspot inside your home without need to use expensive cellular call time minutes.