Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: picoChip Designs | Subject: picoArray
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 04 December 2002
Baseband technology sorts out 3G
infrastructure
A new complete baseband platform for 3G infrastructure is claimed to solve the three critical problems confronting manufacturers.
picoChip Designs has developed a complete baseband platform for 3G infrastructure that solves three critical problems confronting manufacturers: dramatically reducing the cost of basestations while providing the flexibility to allow software upgrades to new revisions of the standard and accelerating development Based on a massively parallel array of processors, picoChip's device delivers 10 to 100 times the processing power and speed of the best available solution based on legacy DSP architectures
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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CEO, Rodger Sykes, said: "Infrastructure for 3G is a multi-billion-dollar market and one of the few telecomms opportunities still growing.
However, it is extremely challenging, both technologically and commercially.
picoChip has developed a solution that radically addresses the serious problems facing manufacturers and this has the potential to fundamentally change the way co