CTIA Wireless 2010, NEWPORT BEACH, USA: Mindspeed Technologies Inc., a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, announced that the company’s Transcede baseband processor for 3G/4G/long-term evolution (LTE) base stations is being featured at the CTIA Wireless 2010 trade show in a proof-of-concept demonstration of the industry’s first 4G picocell base station. The 4G picocell implementation from AirWalk Communications was developed in collaboration with Mindspeed and Aricent.
AirWalk’s 4G picocell based on Mindspeed’s Transcede processor can be seen in AirWalk’s booth (Central Hall, Las Vegas Convention Center, #2130), tomorrow through March 25. Mindspeed will also be hosting a private suite at CTIA in meeting room #MR-640 in the Central Hall (C5) of the Las Vegas Convention Center, where the company will provide additional information about its Transcede family of highly integrated and cost-effective application-specific system-on-chip (SoC) solutions.
The Transcede family targets the low-power requirements and heavy processing demands of an unprecedented variety of emerging next-generation mobile broadband base station platforms, from enterprise femtocells to macrocells.
"Mindspeed’s Transcede family is designed to help manufacturers accelerate time-to-market for their LTE products, as demonstrated by this proof-of-concept implementation for CTIA,” said Raouf Halim, chief executive officer at Mindspeed. “Our Transcede family of processors will help companies like AirWalk lead the migration to 4G technology.”
Mindspeed’s Transcede next-generation wireless baseband processor integrates an unprecedented 26 programmable processors into a single device, including two ARM Cortex A9 multi-core symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processors, 10 CEVA DSPs and 10 DSP accelerators.
The solution fully supports the complete processing needs of single- and multi-sector basestations using the wideband code-division multiple access (W-CDMA), LTE, LTE time-division duplex (TD-LTE, in China), time-division synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA, in China), and/or WiMAX air-interface standards.
The Transcede family of SoCs can deliver three sectors of LTE processing in a single device, and enables the first 64-user “picocell on a chip.” At the same time, it provides substantial processing headroom, allowing manufactures to incorporate their own value-added features as part of an overall Transcede-based solution.
“We are pleased to be at the forefront of new basestation advances using Mindspeed’s Transcede processor, the first of its kind to meet the huge increase in basestation diversity and computational complexity that comes with the migration to 4G mobile networks,” said Serge Pequeux, president and chief executive officer at AirWalk Communications.
“In combination with Mindspeed’s Transcede processor, AirWalk’s unique flat IP architecture provides a developmental advantage for us with LTE products. This advantage enables us to be among the first movers in LTE picocell and femtocell product introductions.”
The LTE picocell platform that AirWalk is displaying at CTIA is an affordable access point which will complement macro networks by providing voice and high-speed data coverage and capacity to hot spots and in-building areas that are RF challenged.
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