20 February 2008

Continuous & picoChip Team On FemtoCell Ref

Continuous Computing and picoChip are teaming up on integrated a High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) femtocell software reference design.

The joint femtocell solution will pre-integrate Continuous Computing's Trillium Femtocell protocol software with picoChip's PC8208 software and PC202 picoArray single-chip processor.  The PC202 is a single-chip device, combining a high-performance ARM core running the Trillium stack and a powerful multi-core digital signal processing (DSP) fabric running picoChip's PC8208 baseband code.

ABI Research predicts that the femtocell market will serve 152 million users on 36 million access points worldwide, and a report from Unstrung Insider calculates that the femtocell market may reach $850 million by 2011.

Continuous Computing's Trillium Femtocell 3G/4G Wireless protocol software, which features support for HSPA data rates and compliance with 3GPP specifications through Release 7, has been optimized for performance on the ARM processor in picoChip's PC202 processor and integrated with picoChip's physical layer embedded software to reduce the overall memory footprint. Trillium Femtocell protocol support also includes Trillium SIP and UMTS Generic Access Network (GAN) core network interface options, among others.