Mindspeed and ASTRI Demonstrate First Commercial-Grade TD-LTE Small Cell Reference Design at Mobile World Congress 2012
February 27 2012 - 2:00AM
Business Wire
Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD) and Hong Kong
Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) announced
today that the companies will demonstrate the industry’s first
commercial-grade, production-ready time division long-term
evolution (TD-LTE) small cell reference design at Mobile World
Congress 2012 in booth 1E.57 at the Fira Montjuïc in Barcelona,
Spain, from Feb. 27 to March 1, 2012.
Picochip Ltd., which Mindspeed recently acquired, and ASTRI
began their close collaboration on the LTE femtocell reference
design in the middle of 2008, supporting both LTE frequency
division duplexing (FDD) and TD-LTE. The two companies demonstrated
the world’s first TD-LTE femtocell prototype at Mobile World
Congress 2009, and have been working on a combined design
supporting both LTE FDD and TD-LTE over the last several years.
Mindspeed is the only small cell System-on-Chip (SoC) supplier
to have demonstrated solutions for both TD-LTE and LTE FDD. The
company also supports dual-mode concurrent operation with 3G
high-speed packet access (HSPA+) and including time division
synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA). Although
TD-LTE had low visibility and demand just two or three years ago,
industry analyst firm Informa has projected that 40 percent of LTE
users will be served by the technology by 2015. While the TD-LTE
and LTE FDD are substantially similar, the key difference is that
LTE FDD uses paired spectrum, with one band for the uplink and a
second for the downlink. TD-LTE, instead, uses unpaired spectrum,
carrying uplink and downlink traffic on the same frequency by
switching between the two.
“Unlike reference designs that use ‘example code’ or
‘demo-ware,’ this is a fully tested, verified and deployable
carrier-class TD-LTE baseband system,” said Dr. Naser Adas, vice
president and general manager, wireless and customer premises
equipment (CPE), at Mindspeed. “As the leading supplier of SoCs to
the small cell industry, we’ve won more 3G and 4G customer designs
than any other supplier. Mindspeed has extensive experience
deploying high volume systems that rely on the quality and
robustness of our PHY code – including delivering our 3G software
across more than one million units in the field to-date. We
appreciate the professionalism and skills of the ASTRI team in
working with us to get this carrier-class product developed, tested
and released.”
“We have been working closely with the company on this product
since 2008,” added Dr. Cheung Nim-Kwan, chief executive officer of
ASTRI. “This has been a very productive collaboration and we are
delighted that Mindspeed has been able to make the LTE small cell
system generally available to its customers. TD-LTE is important
not just to the Chinese market, but globally, and we look forward
to working together on future products.”
Mobile World Congress 2012
Demonstrations will be hosted in Mindspeed’s booth (1E.57) at
Mobile World Congress 2012, where the TD-LTE small cell
communicates with a commercial TD-LTE dongle for simultaneous
uplink/downlink high data rate applications. The USB modem was
jointly designed by ASTRI and Innofidei, a leading integrated
circuit (IC) design company in China, and had been recently used in
a large scale TD-LTE trial conducted across six cities in
China.
About Mindspeed Technologies
Mindspeed Technologies (NASDAQ: MSPD) is a leading provider of
network infrastructure semiconductor solutions to the
communications industry. The company's low-power system-on-chip
(SoC) products are helping to drive video, voice and data
applications in worldwide fiber-optic networks and enable advanced
processing for 3G and long-term evolution (LTE) mobile networks.
The company's high-performance analog products are used in a
variety of optical, enterprise, industrial and video transport
systems. Mindspeed's products are sold to original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs) around the globe.
To learn more, please visit www.mindspeed.com. Company news
and updates are also posted at www.twitter.com/mindspeed.
About ASTRI
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute
(ASTRI) was founded by the HKSAR Government in 2000 with the
mission to enhance the technological competitiveness of Hong Kong
through applied research.
In 2006, ASTRI was designated the Hong Kong Research and
Development Centre for Information and Communications Technologies
by the Innovation and Technology Commission. Its R&D efforts
traverse five major areas: Communications Technologies, Enterprise
& Consumer Electronics, IC Design, Material & Packaging and
Bio-medical Electronics. An Exploratory Research Laboratory was
also established to perform research on emerging and
interdisciplinary technologies.
Since inception, ASTRI has produced many world-class
technologies. It has also nurtured teams of excellent researchers,
produced a volume of intellectual properties and created real
economic impact by transferring technologies to its clients in Hong
Kong, the Mainland and the region.
For more information, please visit www.astri.org.
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