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picoChip: picoChip powers Xinwei McWiLL basestations for 2008
Olympics; picoArray-based design eases integration, significantly
reduces BOM
(M2 PressWIRE Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
RDATE:14112007
Bath, England, and Beijing -- picoChip announced today that Xinwei
Telecom Technology has selected the PC203 as the baseband processor in
the latest revision of its McWiLL basestation design. McWiLL
(Multi-carrier Wireless Information Local Loop) is a Chinese-developed
mobile broadband wireless access standard, optimized for extremely wide
area coverage, which is being deployed for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
McWiLL combines SCDMA's traditional use in narrowband voice and adds
nomadic broadband functionality. It is based on CS-OFDMA (combining the
advantages of both OFDMA and CDMA), adaptive modulation and uses
dynamic channel allocation, smart antennas, beam-forming and
interference cancellation to improve reach and throughput.
In the new design, two picoChip PC203 devices replace nine conventional
TI C6xxx high-end DSPs and two large FPGAs, dramatically reducing cost
and power. As a Xinwei-developed wireless standard, all the development
has been done in-house in Beijing "Xinwei is a truly significant player
and this is a good example of the advantages of our architecture over
traditional DSP, and of our capability to power any standard," said
Doug Pulley, co-founder and CTO of picoChip.
"This agreement furthers picoChip's support for Chinese wireless
development, and it is a testimony to the maturity of our architecture
and tools that Xinwei has been able to develop such a sophisticated
product so quickly." "The picoArray is a powerful device that can
effectively tackle the extreme signal processing needs of
next-generation wireless," added Dr. Wen Bin, VP of Xinwei. "Designing
with such an efficient architecture represents a significant step
forward in our migration to deliver designs, easily, and at highly
competitive price points." McWiLL is ideal for the support of voice and
data communications in both urban and rural areas with very large cell
sizes. A McWiLL base station delivers 15Mbps per sector over 1-3
kilometers in an urban environment, using 5MHz of spectrum at 1800MHz;
while at 400MHz, the range extends from 20 to 60 kilometers. Client
devices using a 1MHz subcarrier deliver throughput (download and
upload) speeds of 3Mbps while traveling at 120 kilometers per hour.
McWiLL is on show at the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008, and will be
used in the coastal city of Qingdao for Olympic sailing events and on a
lake in the Shunyi suburb of Beijing for the Olympic rowing contest.
The main application will be relaying live race video information back
to shore.
McWiLL has already been trialed in Guangzhou, Nanning, Beijing and
Qingdao for video, voice and data communications.
picoArray devices incorporate arrays of DSP elements, delivering
extremely high performance. Already proven in-use for the
computationally-intensive tasks involved in advanced wireless signal
processing, they are available in forms suitable for both
infrastructure and user terminal applications. They offer a powerful
platform to develop products for emerging global wireless
communications markets such as WiMAX, LTE and 4G. picoChip has a design
centre in Beijing and is developing reference designs for TD-SCDMA.
Editor's Note: "picoArray" is a registered trademark of picoChip. All
other trademarks and servicemarks are the property of their respective
owners.
Company contact:
Rupert Baines, picoChip Designs Limited, Riverside Buildings, 108
Walcot Street, Bath, BA1 5BG, United Kingdom
Media contact:
Oliver Davies, Publitek Limited, 18 Brock Street, Bath, BA1 2LW, United
Kingdom
About picoChip
picoChip, located in Bath, England, is dedicated to providing
innovative, flexible wireless solutions to help equipment makers
minimize time-to-market, costs, and system power consumption.
The heart of the company's offering is a scaleable, multi-processor
baseband IC that combines the computational density of a dedicated ASIC
with the programmability of a traditional high end Digital Signal
Processor. This radically reduces both development time and materials
cost and enables the strategic goal of the "Software Defined Radio".
The company has the most comprehensive reference designs in the
industry, with complete, standard-compliant solutions for both UMTS
(including HSxPA) and WiMAX (802.16d upgradeable to 802.16e).
About Xinwei
Beijing Xinwei Telecom Technology Inc, founded in Nov. 1995 and
reorganized in 2000, owns advanced technology with whole essential
intellectual property rights and becomes the drive of modern wireless
communication industry. The company is a high-tech enterprise which
integrates product research and development, manufacture, sales,
installation and after-sale services. The headquarter and the research
center locate in Beijing. Chongqing Xinwei, the subsidiary company, is
one of the national core demonstration firms, which has modern
manufacturing capability and quality control system. Shenzhen Research
Institute plays an important role in industrialized product research.
Beijing Xinwei Telecom Technology Inc, has over2500 employees. In
August 2007 Xinwei bought Arrowping.
Jenny Noad Publitek Limited 18 Brock Street Bath BA1 2LW, UK
CONTACT: Rupert Baines, picoChip Designs Limited
Tel: +44 (0)1225 469 744
Fax: +44 (0)1225 469 767
e-mail: rupertb@picoChip.com
WWW: http://www.picoChip.com
Oliver Davies, Media contact, Publitek Limited
Tel: +44 (0)1225 470 000
Fax: +44 (0)1225 470 047
e-mail: oliver.davies@publitek.com
Jenny Noad, Publitek Limited
Tel: +44 (0)1225 470 000
Fax: +44 (0)1225 470 047
e-mail: jenny.noad@publitek.com
WWW: http://www.publitek.com
Xinwei
WWW: http://www.xinwei.com.cn
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