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Texas Instruments Incorporated has announced that the 3GPP voice and data physical layer reference stack for UMTS femtocell products are now available.

 

This stack was intended for Release 6 and 7 compliance, according to a release. Based on TI’s System-on-a-Chip solutions, the innovative platform was created in a group effort with Azcom Technology, a provider of cellular communications software solutions and Nash Technologies, a wireless communication system development and support company.

 

The equipment manufacturers will rapidly be able to create picocell and femtocell products for the residential and enterprise markets with the TI’s System-on-a-Chip solutions and PHY libraries scalability, and the femtocell physical layer software and services from system integration to field support of Azcom Technology and Nash Technologies.

 

The Strategic and Technical Marketing Manager for the Wireless Base Station Infrastructure Business of Texas Instruments (News - Alert), Dr. Arnon Friedman, stated that TI continue investing in DSP and analog solutions, also PHY libraries, to support the infrastructure vendors deploying their solutions globally as the femto market broadens and the customers’ demands progress.

 

Azcom and Nash using TI’s libraries as the base for their high performing PHY layer software will allow OEMs to benefit from more competent processing with a standard based established set of code and platform extensibility, in the end getting to market faster.

 

The demand for a ready to use, fully featured and high capacity UMTS femto NodeB software stack is focused by the UMTS voice and data femto PHY. The software is industry standard compatible and fully customizable.

 

This solution was intended to work on Texas Instruments’ high performance processors with a starting execution on the wireless base station infrastructure devices’ TMS320TCI648x series.

 

High performance receive and transmit features are offered by the Femto PHY Processing Layer. Offered by Texas Instruments, hardware acceleration offers advantage to the proprietary rake receiver. This provides the best channel processing capacity, company officials said.