Date: 18/06/2012

TD-SCDMA software IP from CEVA for CEVA-XC DSP family

CEVA, Inc has announced the availability of fully optimized TD-SCDMA software libraries for the CEVA-XC family of DSP cores.

CEVA-XC provides a universal modem platform that supports TD-SCDMA alongside HSPA, HSPA+, LTE, TD-LTE, LTE-A and TD-LTE-A in software to serve the semiconductor vendors and cellular OEMs needs. The addition of TD-SCDMA, China's homegrown 3G wireless standard is essential to provide mandatory compliance for modem designs.

Will Strauss, president of wireless research firm Forward Concepts, commented: "CEVA-powered TD-SCDMA handsets ship in volume in China today from vendors including Samsung, HTC, ZTE and Huawei. As the Chinese wireless industry moves towards TD-LTE in the coming years, backward compatibility with the TD-SCDMA standard is a must for every wireless vendor. CEVA's software-defined radio platform for multimode LTE chipsets enables standards such as TD-SCDMA to be supported in software. Furthermore, the addition of the TD-SCDMA software libraries significantly reduces the development burden and time-to-market for CEVA customers targeting the fast-growing Chinese wireless market."

CEVA's TD-SCDMA libraries cover the complete physical layer's transceiver.

"The addition of fully optimized TD-SCDMA software libraries is another clear testimony to the powerfulness and flexibility of our CEVA-XC family of DSPs for multimode communications processor designs," said Eran Briman, vice president of marketing at CEVA. "Support for the TD-SCDMA wireless standard significantly lowers the entry barrier and the design challenges baseband vendors are facing in targeting the subscriber base of China Mobile, the world's largest wireless operator, with more than 650 million subscribers."

CEVA's TD-SCDMA software libraries support the latest TD-SCDMA technology compliant with the 3GPP Rel-9 worst case conditions and are user-configurable based on customer needs, including interleaver, rate matching, modulation type (8PSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM), HARQ, etc., They are pre-certified with Synopsys SPW tool to accelerate system designs utilizing Synopsys' DSP Model libraries.

For more information: http://www.ceva-dsp.com/CEVA-XC-Family.html