PMC-Sierra Announces Industry's First Single-Chip CPRI Solution Enabling 3G Wireless Base Station Distributed Architectures
February 13 2006 - 5:05AM
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PMC-Sierra's Baseband to Radio Interface Controller (BRIC(TM))
Family Enables Standards-Based Remote Radio Head Network Topologies
PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Nasdaq:PMCS) today announced the PM7830
BRIC(TM)-6 and PM7832 BRIC-2, full-featured 6-port and 2-port
termination devices that fully support the Common Public Radio
Interface (CPRI) specification for wireless base station
interconnect. PMC-Sierra's interface solutions make it possible for
OEMs and ODMs to offer all defined Remote Radio Head (RRH) network
topologies with a standard digital interconnect for distributed
base station systems. The BRIC product family: -- Accelerates the
adoption of distributed wireless base station architectures, which
dramatically reduces capital and operational expenditures for
carriers; -- Supports multiple air interfaces, including WCDMA,
CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA, and WiMAX over CPRI with a single interface
solution; and -- Reduces customer development and bill-of-material
(BOM) costs as well as qualification cycle. Data and multimedia
capabilities on handsets drive the need for increased coverage and
capacity on the cellular networks. In an effort to grow market
share, carriers are seeking to cost-effectively address the
increasing network demands by adopting distributed base station
architectures through Remote Radio Heads. "Our investments in
wireless products and technology has enabled carriers and system
vendors to realize major performance improvements and significant
capital and operational savings," said Dino Bekis, vice president
of marketing and applications for PMC-Sierra's Communication
Products Division. "The BRIC product family is enabling a radical
shift in the evolution of 3G wireless networks toward ubiquitous
coverage through standards-based distributed architectures." The
BRIC product family reduces customer ASIC/FPGA development cost and
qualification by providing a complete, fully compliant end-to-end
interface solution. It eliminates the need for any external jitter
attenuation circuitry to recover a clock that fully meets CPRI
specification requirements. Serial link interface performance and
quality is guaranteed through the integration of PMC-Sierra's
best-in-class SERDES technology as well as PMC-Sierra's compliance
testing. Reducing Cost While Increasing Reliability Targeting
distributed wireless base station architectures, the BRIC's
high-level integration of multiple functions into a single device
significantly reduces board real estate, BOM size, programmable
logic gate count, customer development and qualification cycles,
all of which contribute to lower overall system cost. Integration
reduces the number of external components prone to failure, thus
providing a more reliable solution and reducing field failures.
Leader in Signal Integrity and High-Performance SERDES Technology
The BRIC delivers standards-exceeding jitter performance by
leveraging integration of PMC-Sierra's fifth generation SERDES
technology. It offers extensive flexibility in optimizing critical
system signal integrity parameters by allowing the fine-tuning of
transmitter pre-emphasis, receiver equalization and output voltage
swing. Pricing, Availability and Customer Support The PM7832 BRIC-2
and PM7830 BRIC-6 will be available in early Q2'06 and Q3'06,
respectively. For information on pricing for this device, contact a
PMC-Sierra sales representative at
www.pmc-sierra.com/contactSales/. A comprehensive support package,
including datasheets and application notes is available at
www.pmc-sierra.com/wireless. About PMC-Sierra PMC-Sierra(TM) is a
leading provider of broadband communications and storage
semiconductors for enterprise, access, metro, storage, wireless
infrastructure, laser printers and customer premises equipment. The
company offers worldwide technical and sales support, including a
network of offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. The
company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the
PMCS symbol and is included in the S&P 500 Index. For more
information, visit www.pmc-sierra.com. Figure 1: BRIC Application:
Network Topology Examples Figure 2: BRIC Application: High-Density
BTS Hotel Applications For figures visit:
http://www.pmc-sierra.com/pressRoom/pdf/BRIC_figures.pdf For
product photo visit:
http://www.pmc-sierra.com/pressRoom/images/BRIC_family.jpg
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