News Release from: NXP (formerly Philips Semiconductors)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 February 2003
Multimedia baseband hosts cellular system solution
The Nexperia cellular system solution is based on Philips' successful Nexperia multimedia baseband, and is designed to enable manufacturers to deliver affordable multimedia handsets to end users.
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The Nexperia cellular system solution is based on Philips' successful Nexperia multimedia baseband, and is designed to enable manufacturers to deliver affordable multimedia handsets to end users. They also benefit from accelerated time to market for new products and reduced risk due to the proven, ready-to-use format. Its flexibility allows manufacturers to focus on differentiation and provides a cost-effective method of quickly including the latest multimedia functionality to adapt to market demands.
Built around the Philips Nexperia multimedia baseband (PCF5213), which comprises the RF front end, power management unit and software package, this latest generation of Philips' market leading Nexperia cellular system solution offers quad-band capabilities, supporting GSM at 850/900/1800/1900MHz to enable worldwide roaming.
It also features a GPRS protocol stack which has been fully validated by IOT (interoperability tests) and customers in addition to Edge to provide handset and module manufacturers with enhanced datarates of up to 300Kbit/s to support the latest multimedia applications.
The Nexperia cellular system solution provides handset manufacturers with a portfolio of integrated hardware and software solutions for mobile-based multimedia applications such as MMS, Java-based gaming, MP3, video-MPEG4 and MPEG4 encoding, e-mail, FM synthesis for melody generation, speech recognition, PC connectivity and USB.
Optional features include FM radio, Bluetooth and colour LCD.
Furthermore, customers also benefit from access to extensive software protocol stack and IP libraries, which enable ongoing software upgrades to support emerging applications.
"The new Nexperia cellular system solution combines our leadership in GSM technology with advanced multimedia functionality", commented Thierry Laurent Executive Vice President and General Manager Business Unit Mobile Communications at Philips Semiconductors.
"We are now in a position to offer our customers a low-risk, affordable method of adding leading-edge multimedia functionality to handsets.
The speed of integration also helps them to deliver the latest 'killer' applications quickly to meet demand".
To address specific market requirements, the Nexperia cellular system solution also supports AMR (adaptive multirate) technology in addition to single antenna interference cancellation (SAIC) to increase network capacity and improve service quality for cellular subscribers.
It also features E-OTD (enhanced observed time difference) - the ETSI's standard for location technology to meet the E-911 requirement and teletype (TTY) allowing automatic voice to data translation.
The solution contains fully validated hardware and software, and dedicated worldwide regional support for full type approval and industrialisation phases are also provided.
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