Mindspeed Technologies will demonstrate over-the-air (OTA) transmission, in the 2.6GHz spectrum, of high-definition (HD) video powered by its Transcede wireless baseband processor at Mobile World Congress.
In collaboration with companies Interphase Corporation, Continuous Computing and Ixia, Mindspeed will host live LTE picocell demonstrations for service providers, customers and analysts throughout the 2011 Mobile World Congress event in its booth (2H57) and meeting room in Hall 2 of the Fira de Barcelona-Montjüic in Barcelona. The demonstrations will showcase the industry-leading features that make the Transcede-powered approach unique among semiconductor solutions marketed to manufacturers of 4G base stations.
“Mobile network operators and base station manufacturers are migrating to heterogeneous LTE networks featuring a scalable infrastructure of femtocells, picocells, microcells and macrocells,” said Alan Taylor, director of marketing for the communications convergence processing business unit at Mindspeed. “This market shift will be played out over the next half decade or more with a challenging set of requirements for processing power, low-power operation, form factor flexibility, and compact configurations that can only be effectively met with a scalable SoC architecture.”
Mindspeed’s Transcede processor is the first fully-integrated single SoC eNodeB solution offering 3GPP Release 8-compliant LTE Layer 1, Layer 2 and Layer 3 processing with picocell performance. It offers base station manufacturers the ability to leverage the same software architecture and programming model across the company’s entire family of Transcede processors, and to scale designs from femtocells and picocells to microcells and macrocells. Transcede supports multiple radio access network (RAN) technologies in a single device and provides the industry’s highest level of integration. It was named “Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough” at the 2010 Mobile Excellence Awards (MEA).