Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Silicon Laboratories | Subject: Aerofone Si4905
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 25 October 2005
Single-chip phone produces budget
handsets
The Aerofone single-chip phone is billed as the industry's most integrated, highest performance, easiest-to-use solution for GSM/GPRS handsets.
New from Silicon Laboratories, the Aerofone single-chip phone is billed as the industry's most integrated, highest performance, easiest-to-use solution for GSM/GPRS handsets The Aerofone Si4905 is based on patent pending, breakthrough innovation enabling the first fully functional single-chip phone to integrate the power management unit (PMU), battery interface and charging circuitry, digital baseband, analogue baseband and a quad-band RF transceiver in a single monolithic CMOS IC
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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By leveraging Silicon Laboratories' proven Aero II RF transceiver technology, the Aerofone Si4905 offers industry-leading RF performance including sensitivity, blocking and transmit modulation spectrum characteristics.
The high level of integration paired with unmatched RF performance makes Silicon Laboratories' Aerofone solution ideal for entry-level GSM/GPRS handsets where cost and circuit board area are critical.
The high performance of the Aerofone single-chip phone also allows handset manufacturers to easily meet the stringent performance requirements of cellular network operators worldwide.