After covering DesignCon last week, we now turn our attention to Mobile World Congress Feb 14-17 in Barcelona. PicoChip has announced a SoC technology that integrates the key components of a 3G femtocell into an a QFN package.
Picochip has announced significant expansion in its worldwide operations. The femtocell manufacturer has moved to a new headquarters and engineering center in its home city of Bath, UK, opened an advanced test laboratory in Cambridge, UK, and announced plans to double the size of its development centre in Beijing,...
picoChip claims to be the first baseband company to support the newly announced Femto Forum LTE application programming interfaces (API). The new APIs help developers of LTE femtocells integrate subsystems from different suppliers, reducing integration cost and time and accelerating development of femtocells and other ‘small cell’ base stations,...
China’s FemTel Communications is using picoChip technology to deliver the F100-T femtocell, which is based on picoChip’s PC8808 TD-SCDMA reference design and PC202 silicon. It is already being used in field trials by a leading operator in China. The PC8808 TD-SCDMA femtocell software reference design was developed in China...
Rancore Technologies Ltd. has selected picoChip ’s wireless baseband technology for the development of 4G base stations for rollout in India’s next-generation networks. The company uses picoChip’s picoArray PC203 multi-core digital signal processor, which delivers the performance needed in demanding applications such as carrier-class wireless infrastructure for WiMAX and...
IntelliNet Technologies , Melbourne, Australia, has announced that it has completed interoperability testing between its own Femtocell Gateway and femtocell access points based on picoChip ’s industry-standard picoXcell™ platform. The testing validates products against the newly adopted 3GPP standardized Iu-h interface, which allows mobile operators to select customer premise...
Continuous Computing and picoChip have agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate to produce a comprehensive Long Term Evolution femtocell and picocell reference implementation. The results of the joint work will enable Network Equipment Providers (NEP) to quickly get to market with a variety of small form...
picoChip announced that the first public demonstration of its PC8808 TD-SCDMA femtocell software reference design in China marks its general availability in the market. At the same time, picoChip revealed Digimoc , a Chinese solution provider of femtocells, as its first publicly disclosed TD-SCDMA customer. Digimoc is using picoChip's...
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