Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: picoChip Designs | Subject: PC101
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 05 February 2003
Software system on chip cuts 3G
infrastructure
picoChip Designs has sampled its first device, the PC101, which delivers a massive computational power of 30GMACs per second.
picoChip Designs has sampled its first device, the PC101, which delivers a massive computational power of 30GMACs per second - 20 times more than traditional devices despite needing only a fraction of the clock rate (160MHz) Shipped with a complete toolchain and a comprehensive UMTS systems library, the PC101 SSoC dramatically cuts the cost of third generation mobile infrastructure and enables the strategic advantage of in-the-field flexibility - a reprogrammable basestation
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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