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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: TCS2100 GPRS chipset
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 June 2001
Chipset cuts development time for 2.5G
handsets
Texas Instruments has released a complete hardware and software chipset solution for General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Class 12 wireless handsets.
Texas Instruments has released a complete hardware and software chipset solution for General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Class 12 wireless handsets Based on TI's programmable DSP technology, the chipset provides manufacturers the performance and low power required to run next-generation wireless applications, and provides easy migration of applications software to future TI OMAP-based chipset products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Jan 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The TCS2100 GPRS chipset includes TI's high performance TBB2100 dual-core digital baseband, a highly integrated TWL3014 analogue baseband with complete power management functions and TI's single-chip direct conversion TRF6150 RF transceiver.
The solution also includes a rich wireless software suite, including a complete GPRS/GSM protocol stack, a broad library of multimedia applications, and TI's Wireless Software Foundation embedded platform and development tools.
The solution's TBB2100 digital baseband is built on a dual-core architecture, including a high-performance TI TMS320C54x DSP and an ARM RISC processor.
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It supports Class 12 GPRS wireless communications, while supplying the processing headroom required for designers to incorporate value-add GPRS functions and applications.
With its innovative power split technique, the architecture provides customers with unmatched standby time and power-off consumption.
In addition, for manufacturers requiring multimedia-rich application processing, the TCS2100 GPRS chipset can be paired with the OMAP1510 applications processing engine for power efficient, high performance support of applications such as streaming media and video-conferencing on mobile devices.
The new TWL3014 component integrates all analogue baseband and power-management functions into a single device, greatly reducing board-space requirements, chip count and development cost.
Secondly, the single-chip TRF6150 direct-conversion RF transceiver reduces the overall RF bill of materials by 15% over other announced direct-conversion devices, and by 30% over GSM and GPRS solutions currently in production.
The TCS2100 software suite incorporates all GPRS protocol stack layers and an array of audio application software to support features such as voice recognition, voice memo, acoustic echo cancellation, speech enhancement and a melody generator that is compatible with a musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) format.
The suite also supports Bluetooth and Internet capabilities such as WAP, microbrowser and Java.
TI's embedded Wireless Software Foundation platform and Windows-based development environment and development tools allow designers to rapidly integrate their own software applications and port future applications as they become available.
The flexible software platform and tools allow developers to port existing code into TI's future higher functionality GPRS architectures with additional processors and memory configurations, while also providing portability to future TI OMAP-based chipsets supporting other wireless standards.
The TCS2100 GPRS chipset reference design, available in Q3 2001, is fully type-approved and includes a complete bill of materials, feature-rich software suite and board design and layout.
As part of the reference design, TI provides best-in-class worldwide customer support to assist developers all the way to full-scale production.
The TCS2100 GPRS chipset is sampling today.
Production quantities are expected during Q3 2001.
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