Lime Microsystems and Blue Wonder Communications will jointly develop a complete Long-Term Evolution (LTE) reference platform that they hope will enable early adoption of the emerging standard. According to the companies, the fully characterized platform will accelerate time-to-market for OEMs developing LTE systems. It is based on the Lime Microsystems LMS6002 single-chip RF transceiver and Blue Wonder’s advanced baseband solution.

“Cooperation between silicon and system suppliers is an essential first step towards designing end products that will use the LTE standard,” said Ebrahim Bushehri, CEO of Lime Microsystems. “The combination of Lime’s single-chip RF transceiver and Blue Wonder’s advanced baseband solution is the first of its kind and will allow early adopters to accelerate the time-to-market of LTE products.”

The LMS6002 is a multi-band, multi-standard RF transceiver IC for femtocells and small cell basestations. It operates at user-selectable frequencies between 375 MHz and 4 GHz and suits 3G, WiMAX, and LTE standards. Also, it can be digitally configured to operate in the full range of frequency bands, with 16 user-selectable bandwidths up to 28 MHz. This removes the need for individual transceiver chips for each of the different bands, enabling the rapid and simple reconfiguration of small cell basestations.

The Blue Wonder baseband solution is a complete LTE subsystem that can be integrated into system-on-a-chip (SoC) platforms. It provides a 3GPP Release 8 time-division duplex (TDD) and radio frequency facility (RFF) multimode solution, up to category 4. Also, it’s designed for low power consumption. Blue Wonder will provide an FPGA-based development system that includes an interface to Lime’s LMS6002 transceiver to allow all required interoperability tests.