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picoChip and mimoOn partner on delivery of industry's first LTE basestation reference design; End-to-end LTE system on common platform with WiMAX to be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2008.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-5 February 2008-picoChip: picoChip and mimoOn partner on delivery of industry's first LTE basestation reference design; End-to-end LTE system on common platform with WiMAX to be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2008(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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Bath, England; Duisburg, Germany -- picoChip today announced that it is collaborating with mimoOn to deliver the industry's first complete LTE (Long Term Evolution) basestation reference design. The new PC86xx family of LTE reference designs cover the full range of eNode Bs from femtocells to multi-sector macrocells and is supported on the same common hardware platforms as picoChip's WiMAX products. The system and its MIMO capabilities will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, 11-14 February on the picoChip stand 1D56.

LTE is the 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) 4G architecture and has been designed to improve the UMTS mobile phone standard to cope with future requirements. These include improving efficiency, lowering costs, improving services, making use of new spectrum opportunities, and better integration with other open standards. LTE has significant commonality with WiMAX, both being based on OFDMA in the downlink, all-IP architecture together with MIMO and adaptive...

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