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picoChip is an independent chipset design company founded in 2000 and based in Bath, UK. They are the leading baseband chip vendor for femtocells, having created reference designs which are incorporated into many femtocell vendor designs. Their products replace more costly DSP chips with an highly efficient array processing architecture.
The PC8209 software reference design is a complete architecture for femtocell, supporting HSDPA with a software upgrade to HSUPA. The design is compliant with 3GPP release 5, supporting 4 simultaneous users and up to 7.2Mbit/s download data speed. The design includes all baseband processing, MAC layer and framing protocol functionality - in other words all the workhorse, processor intensive computing required for the application. Announced that the design is complemented by 3rd party software vendors Continuous Computing who provide the associated control plane processing required for a complete femtocell product. The design uses picoChip's PC202 single baseband processing chip which incorporates an incredible 308 processors each clocked at 160Mhz. The company claims their chipset can be software upgraded/adapted to process other radio interfaces, including GSM, WiMax, LTE, TD-SCDMA and cdma2000 - demonstrations of several of these are available but not all are fully developed for commercial use as yet. picoChip's chipset is incorporated into Ubiquisys , ip.access, Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola and other vendors femtocell products today.
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