Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: picoChip Designs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 05 March 2007
Alliance addresses basestation
synchronisation
picoChip is working with Semtech to solve the challenging synchronisation problems faced by operators implementing femtocell architectures.
picoChip is working with Semtech to enhance its market-leading femtocell reference designs with Semtech's advanced packet timing solution The addition of ToPSync to picoChip's portfolio will enable support for those OEMs and carriers that have selected the IEEE1588 protocol
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The two companies will work together to solve the challenging synchronisation problems faced by operators implementing femtocell architectures to dramatically cut the cost and complexity of rolling out such networks.
Semtech and picoChip will jointly undertake field trials and performance evaluations to increase the functionality of picoChip's complete, standards-compliant wireless reference designs.
These include UMTS (HSDPA, upgradeable to HSUPA), cdma2000/EVDO and WiMAX/WiBro (both 802.16d and 802.16e) products.