RF&WirelessBlog

Direct conversion I/Q demodulator targets SDRs

CML Microcircuits has added a new Direct Conversion Receiver IC (DCRx) to its family of RF ICs. The CMX994 targets the next generation of multi-mode Software Defined Radios (SDR) for wireless data and two-way radio applications. The company says the design of the CMX994 provides the optimum route for on-board integration, allowing a small RF receiver to be realised with a minimum of external components in both zero IF and low IF systems.

mimoOn’s LTE PHY software on TI’s new femtocell SoC

LTE software for SDR company mimoOn is collaborating with TI on its 3GPP compliant LTE PHY software. TI will offer complete PHY software for LTE Release 8 and 9 for its’ KeyStone multicore architecture, with a specific focus on its newest TMS320TCI6612 and TMS320TCI6614 SoCs. These devices are especially designed for small cell base stations in the enterprise, pico and metro markets.

Cambridge Consultants develops industry's smallest 2G and 3G femtocell base station

Cambridge Consultants has developed a platform for the industry’s smallest commercially available 2G and 3G femtocell. Called Sidewinder, the small-cell platform is software configurable for GSM/GPRS/EDGE, WCDMA/HSPA+ and other SDR applications, providing new levels of adaptability for cellular base stations. It offers a low cost of entry for companies wishing to exploit these standards and sets a new benchmark in flexible, cost effective designs.

Alcatel-Lucent proposes distributed structure to replace traditional basestation

Alcatel-Lucent has announced lightRadio, a new concept in mobile and broadband infrastructure that it says will both streamlines and radically simplify mobile networks, which is on show at this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Pioneered by Alcatel-Lucent's R&D arm Bell Labs, and supported by partners Freescale and HP, the new lightRadio system replaces basestations with much smaller components that are distributed both into the antenna and throughout a cloud-like network, thereby reducing both power consumption and technical complexity.

mimoOn increases market share in LTE PHY software

mimoOn, the Duisburg, Germany, based supplier of LTE software for Software Defined Radio (SDR), has notched up a new licensing deal with a leading chip vendor for its mi!MobilePHY Physical Layer (PHY)

Cognovo LTE software modem reduces handset baseband size

Cognovo has announced its Software Defined Modem (SDM) platform which the Cambridge, UK, based company says is designed to reduce the cost, size and design complexity of LTE handsets and other wireless enabled consumer electronic products. The SDM platform, using technology originating from research carried out at ARM, is already under evaluation at leading handset OEMs and is expected to appear in handsets during 2012.