Date: 27/02/2010

Femtocell reference design from TI support 32 users

Texas Instruments in collaboration with Azcom Technology and Nash Technologies has made available physical layer femtocell reference design supporting up to 32 users. The new platform is based on TI's SoC class TMS320TCI648x series of wireless base station infrastructure devices/chips.

TI says the scalability of TI's SoCs and PHY libraries, and Azcom's and Nash's femtocell physical layer software, along with services from system integration to field support, will allow equipment manufacturers to quickly develop picocell and femtocell products for the enterprise and residential markets. OEMs are provided with ready to make femtocell base station design.

"As the femto market expands and customers' requirements evolve, TI continues to invest in DSP and analog solutions, as well as PHY libraries, to support the infrastructure vendors deploying our solutions worldwide," said Dr. Arnon Friedmann, strategic and technical marketing manager, wireless base station infrastructure business, Texas Instruments. "With Azcom and Nash using our libraries as the foundation for their high performing PHY layer software, OEMs can benefit from more efficient processing with a standards-based proven set of code and platform extensibility, ultimately getting to market more quickly."

The UMTS voice and data femto PHY features UMTS femto NodeB software stack, which is fully customizable and compatible with industry standards. The proprietary rake receiver is supported by hardware acceleration offered by TI to provide high channel processing capacity.


Key features and benefits:
Up to 32 AMR calls
Up to 16 HSxPA served users
One cell, one carrier
3GPP Release 6 and 7
RX diversity
Support for any combination of simultaneous bearers
Fully compliant to Femto Forum API

Texas Instrument's website is www.ti.com