Further extending its WiMAX reference designs, Bath, England based picoChip has unwrapped what it claims as the industry’s first LTE femtocell and picocell reference designs. The PC8608 Home eNodeB and PC8618 eNodeB respectively are small-cell 3GPP LTE reference designs built on the same common hardware platform as its WiMAX basestation reference designs. It includes PHY and MAC and offers 5 MHz and 10 MHz solutions. Both TDD and FDD modes are supported. The PHY runs on PC203 devices and includes OFDMA downlink and SC-FDMA uplink, with support for up to 2 x 2 MIMO and for AAS. The platform has been developed with partners mimoOn and Wintegra, said picoChip.

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As a software-defined solution, it is future-proof and can be upgraded as the LTE standard is refined and updated, noted the supplier.

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