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TechnoConcepts Inc. has announced the commercial availability of its Lycon-WMB101 WiMAX evaluation platform, incorporating the Lycon transmitter and receiver chipset. The Lycon chip family contains TechnoConcepts’ True Software Radio technology, which provides frequency agility and can be programmed for multiple wireless protocols.

The Lycon-WMB101 WiMAX evaluation platform allows operations at any frequency between 2 GHz and 4 GHz. This system lets customers evaluate the technology and easily develop their own applications using the Lycon family chipset. For example, one programmable chipset could support Sprint’s AWS spectrum, Korean WiBRO at 2.3 GHz, European 2.5 GHz bands and Asian 3.5 GHz.

To use the company’s advanced Lycon chipset, which contains direct-conversion radio frequency to digital (RF/D) and digital to radio frequency (D/RF) technology, an advanced digital signal processor (DSP) baseband was needed. To make this possible, the company has chosen to use picoChip’s baseband processor and industry-standard WiMAX reference design.

By using the Lycon family’s advanced technologies, the company expects to be able to address the worldwide WiMAX marketplace with a single platform.