PHY Software Targets LTE Small-Cell Market

Sept. 16, 2011
DUISBURG, GERMANY: A collaboration on 3GPP-compliant LTE physical-layer (PHY) software has been forged between Texas Instruments and mimoOn, a specialist in LTE software licensing for software-defined-radio (SDR) platforms. TI will now ...

DUISBURG, GERMANY: A collaboration on 3GPP-compliant LTE physical-layer (PHY) software has been forged between Texas Instruments and mimoOn, a specialist in LTE software licensing for software-defined-radio (SDR) platforms. TI will now offer PHY software for LTE Release 8 and 9 for its KeyStone multicore architecturewith a specific focus on its TMS320TCI6612 and TMS320TCI6614 system-on-chip (SoC) devices. Those SoCs are specifically designed for small-cell base stations in the enterprise, pico, and metro markets.

According to Thomas Kaiser, CEO of mimoOn, "We expect the LTE small-cell market to grow substantially in the coming years. With a first design-in confirmed, together we are already enabling OEMs to take delivery of a pre-integrated, fully optimized, and production-ready small-cell solution."

Kathy Brown, TI's General Manager, Wireless Base Station Infrastructure, notes, "Our new KeyStone-based small-cell SoCs work very well with mimoOn's LTE PHY software. mimoOn is an excellent partner for us to collaborate with to extend our market-leading LTE performance into the small-cell arena."

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Paul Whytock is European Editor for Microwaves & RF and European Editor-in-Chief for Electronic Design. He reports on the latest news and technology developments in Europe for his US readers while providing his European engineering audience with global news coverage from the electronics sector. Trained originally as a design engineer with Ford Motor Co., Whytock holds an HNC in mechanical, electrical, and production engineering.

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