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News Release from: picoChip Designs | Subject: PC8808 TD-SCDMA femtocell reference design
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 January 2008
Reference design supports low-cost
basestations
picoChip now supports all three 3G standards families: WCDMA (HSPA) through the picoChip PC8208/8209, cdma2000 via GWT partnership and now TD-SCDMA with the PC8808.
picoChip has released the PC8808 TD-SCDMA femtocell reference design, the first to support this standard Femtocells (or 3G access points) are low-cost basestations optimised for deployment inside buildings to improve coverage and data rates
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Yang Hua, the Secretary General of TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance, said, "Femtocells are an important part of the TD-SCDMA ecosystem and an essential part of operator strategy, particularly as we evolve to TD-SCDMA LTE".
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"picoChip's achievement significantly pushes the TD-SCDMA industry forward".
Stuart Carlaw, Research Director ABI Research, added: "Femtocells help carriers solve problems of both coverage and capacity which are applicable to all standards, including TD-SCDMA".
"Given how good coverage already is in China for mobile services, consumers will expect excellent indoor services too: something that is particularly important for data, which is already in high use in the region".
"For both these reasons, I'd expect TD-SCDMA femtocells to be later in deployment, but to ramp as fast if not faster than those for WCDMA".
picoChip now supports all three 3G standards families: WCDMA (HSPA) through the picoChip PC8208/8209, cdma2000 via GWT partnership and now TD-SCDMA with the PC8808.
picoChip also supports WiMAX Waves 1 and 2 with its PC6530 and PC6532 single chip reference designs respectively.
"picoChip clearly recognises the benefits of exploiting the globalised business world".
"The exciting new products were developed by picoChip jointly in Bath and Beijing, but are in high demand from customers worldwide", said Andrew Cahn, Chief Executive of UK Trade and Investment.
"picoChip's joint ventures with its Chinese partners and also with the Olympics later this year, demonstrate the real opportunities that exist in China for British businesses".
The PC8808 TD-SCDMA femtocell reference design supports HSDPA and is the industry's lowest cost complete solution.
The picoChip single-chip platform can integrate both Node B and protocol stack and can easily integrate back into the core network using a number of different architectures including SIP, UMA or Iu.
The single-chip PC202-based design is software-defined and delivers baseband complete with upper layer software stacks included.
It is based on the same architecture as the PC8208/HSDPA and 8208/HSUPA platforms.
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