Huawei has deployed its latest generation of TD-SCDMA base stations, two years after selecting Freescale’s MSC8156 DSP as the processing engine for them. According to the companies, the MSC8156 delivers the processing performance, programmability, high-speed embedded accelerators and interfaces to help Huawei deliver scalable, low-cost, energy-efficient base stations.
Mindspeed is set to form a joint development lab with China Mobile to support the operator's recent deployment of TD-SCDMA femtocells.
“With close support and collaboration from chip vendors and infrastructure companies like Mindspeed, femtocell technologies in China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA network have achieved commercial deployment. This joint development brings a significantly improved customer experience and further demonstrates that small cells will play important roles in wireless broadband services,” said Gu Yihong, assistant general manager at China Mobile Jiangsu Suzhou Branch. “The convergence of TD-SCDMA, TDD-LTE, GSM and Wi-Fi is a fast evolving technology trend, and we appreciate TD-Femto ecosystem companies like Mindspeed that are driving this shift with mature solutions.”
“Mindspeed is delighted that China Mobile is deploying TD-SCDMA femtocell solutions in Suzhou using our technology,” said Raouf Y. Halim, chief executive officer at Mindspeed. “We believe an enhanced collaboration with the world’s leading operator in the TD-SCDMA/TD-LTE area will allow Mindspeed to deliver the best performance on next generation small cell solutions.”
Mindspeed is claiming an industry first with its reference design for enterprise and public access TD-SCDMA small cells. Combining Mindspeed's Comcerto C1000 CPE processor and PC205 baseband with the PC8818 software, the new 16-user reference design will provide small cell coverage to the world's largest mobile market. Mindspeed says it is currently the only SoC company to offer TD-SCDMA small cell solutions and now has a total of seven customers in China.
TriQuint Semiconductor has released three new RF SAW filters that are aimed at improving network infrastructure performance cost-effectively in 3G, LTE and legacy system applications.
Avago Technologies debuted a new series of high-power switch low-noise amplifier (LNA) modules at the 2011 IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society International Microwave Symposium at the Baltimore Convention Centre last week. The LNA modules are dedicated for use in front-end receiver designs of TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE base transceiver station (BTS) applications. The new small-footprint ALM-12x24 modules replace existing three-piece discrete solutions, providing significant board space savings that are especially critical for BTS designs with 8 transceiver channels in a single radio card. The fully-matched solutions also shorten design cycle time by eliminating the need for tuning with external matching circuitry. The modules deliver best-in-class noise performance, high-gain and high linearity from a compact package.
Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) has introduced four high-speed data converter products that support the signal sampling rates necessary to accommodate 3G/4G multi-carrier radio platform requirements. The new introductions include the AD6649 and AD6643 IF diversity receivers and AD9643 and AD9613 high-speed A/D converters. All the products complement other receive-chain components to simplify control loops and maximise base station receiver sensitivity and dynamic range, says ADI.
Two newly-published market studies – from Forward Concepts and Strategy Analytics – have provided a snapshot of different areas of the cellular market, and have both concluded that China promises strong growth prospects in 2010.
The number of newly deployed macro cellular basestations worldwide has grown by over 10% during 2009, according to a newly published report by analysts In-Stat. The basestation market is thriving despite the poor state of the worldwide economy, and is being driven by demand for mobile phones, especially smartphones, and wireless broadband services. macro cellular basestations will grow over 10% in 2009.
Working in Stockholm – where TeliaSonera launched its first LTE network this week –ST-Ericsson and Ericsson have reported the first successful data call handover between LTE and HSPA networks, using a multimode LTE/HSPA device powered by ST-Ericsson's M710 multimode platform. The companies describe this demonstration of a mobile broadband data call in an LTE network, and its successful handover to an HSPA network, as a further step towards the widespread deployment of LTE.
ST-Ericsson and its Chinese subsidiary T3G have announced TD-HSPA modem chip samples in 65nm, said to be the first in the industry to use this geometry size. The new, smaller chip
