PicoChip has announced what it's billing as the world's first femtocell reference design to support China's TD-SCDMA standard.
The new PC8808 TD-SCDMA femtocell reference design was developed in China at picoChip's Beijing design center. The picoChip single-chip platform can integrate both Node B and protocol stack, and can integrate back into the core network using a number of different architectures including SIP, UMA or Iu.
The single-chip PC202-based design is software defined and delivers baseband complete with upper layer software stacks included. The design is based on the same architecture as the PC8208/HSDPA and 8208/HSUPA platforms, and supports HSDPA as well as TD-SCDMA.
TD-SCDMA is expected to launch in China in Olympic cities by May 1 this year.
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