Telecom Magazine reports Hong Kong’s largest mobile carrier, CSL New World Mobility (CSL) is to replace its existing 2G/3G network using ZTE-designed Software Defined Radio (SDR) base stations offering HSPA+ capability and a migration path to next generation Long Term Evolution (LTE).
At a joint conference in Barcelona, GSMA Mobile World Congress, last week, Tarek Robbiati, CEO [...]
February 2009 Archives
Under the category of Most Innovative Mobile Processor, Sandbridge Technologies SB3500 was selected as one of the EE Times Insight Award 2008 finalists.
Here is the full list:
Sandbridge SB3500 Flexible Baseband Processor
Intel 45nm Atom Processor
Qualcomm QSD8650 Mobile Processor (Snapdragon Platform)
Samsung S5L8900B01 Applications Processor
Texas Instruments 65nm OMAP3530 Applications Processor
I wonder if a “productivity factor” can be used to determine the winner since my company [...]
ZTE announces another technological breakthrough by achieving the world’s first EV-DO Revision B (Rev.B) VoIP Call on its CDMA2000 system, marking the first time in the industry that a CDMA vendor achieves an impressive 9.3 Mbps download rate and 5.4 Mbps upload rate.
Compared with mature commercial EV-DO Rev.A, what ZTE’s EV-DO Rev.B does is to only [...]
Eyal Bergman, Director of Product Marketing at Ceva comments at ElectronicsWeekly.com: The changing standards increase risk with a traditional, hardware-based design approach. IC designers using such an approach can either find themselves betting on the wrong standard and end up with an obsolete product before even being launched, or getting into costly investment by developing [...]
picoChip has announced the PC8219, a complete baseband solution for eight-user WCDMA femtocells designed to run on its established PC202 processor chip.
The PC8219 is a complete eight-user femtocell baseband implementation, that is compliant with 3GPP Release 6 HSUPA and can support the new femto-specific features from Release 8.
It runs on a PC202-10.
National Instruments reports on a test tool they designed where the test measurements are performed using a software-defined instrument approach on a common processing platform. It is not exactly SDR but they are solving many of the issues SDRs must deal with.
Tarrytown, NY, Suwon, S. Korea, February, 16th, 2009 – Sandbridge announced today that Samsung has partnered with Sandbridge to develop LTE capable platform based on Sandbridge cutting-edge technology. Specifically, Samsung will showcase several LTE devices, including the Sandbridge’s platform at the upcoming Mobile World Congress to be held in Barcelona, February 16-19. LTE communication system [...]
Octasic Inc. announced Vocallo BTS, its Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform for GSM, EDGE and EDGE Evolution base stations.
According to the company The Vocallo BTS Digital Signal Processor (DSP) integrates a complete Layer 1 baseband for up to 12 GSM carriers or 6 EDGE carriers or any combination. All this is achieved in a 15mm x [...]
Last week the wireless industry met in Barcelona for the annual Mobile World Congress. I had the good fortune to attend the show and my company Sandbridge was an exhibitor.
The big announcement at the show was Nokia’s license to Broadcom of their modem IP. This legitimizes Broadcom’s cellular offerings on top of an already strong broadband/peripheral [...]
T3G announced that it is the leading TD-SCDMA terminal system solution provider, and has completed the world’s first TD-LTE [...]
EE Times reports STMicroelectronics NV and Ericsson have named their 50:50 joint venture that combines the efforts of Ericsson Mobile Platforms with ST-NXP Wireless — ST-Ericsson.
They took our tongue-in cheek advice not to call the new group Saint Eric, but, as expected, the NXP name is to be phased out.
Let’s hope the same doesn’t happen to NXP’s EVP!
ASOCS and Renesas Technology Europe today announced availability of a GSM/GPRS/EDGE communication development system (CDS). Comprising of an ASOCS MP100 MultiComms processor and a Renesas Technology DRACO3 RF subsystem, the development system allows handset designers to rapidly prototype combined cellular and Internet products.
Ceva has announced an SDR vector DSP processor (Ceva-XC) supporting LTE class 5 and WiMax 16m (and of course all the legacy systems).
AND it’s for terminals.
It includes optimizing compiler and up to 4 vector units with a claimed 200 GOPS on the 3-way VLIW 256-bit vector unit (which sounds similiar to Sandbridge’s November 2008 announcement).
PR Newswire reports ZTE Corporation ("ZTE"), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions has been shortlisted for the Best Network Technology Advance Award at the 2009 Global Mobile Awards, the most prestigious mobile honours in the mobile communications field, for its cutting-edge SDR (Software Defined Radio) solution. ZTE is the only Chinese company nominated for this global award. ZTE's ZXSDR B8200 and ZXSDR R8860 are the company's two major SDR products. They are deployed by China Unicom in all of China's 18 provinces for its WCDMA networks. Continue Reading...
EE Times reports mimoOn and Cetecom have partnered using Sandbridge Technologies SB3500 SDR baseband for “world’s smallest mobile test implementation for 3GPP LTE.”
The platform is 13cm x 16cm x 2cm and support 20MHz MIMO with 100Mbps downlink and 50Mbps uplink.
[Full Disclosure: I work for Sandbridge]
