Peter Claydon, co-founder and ex-COO of picoChip, has joined Deltenna, the Chippenham, UK-based manufacturer of Frequency Re-Banders which are being used across the world by network operators trialling LTE 4G cellular technology.
Deltenna founder and CEO Dr Andrew Fox, a former picoChip engineer, said: "We're shipping them as fast as we can make them” at MWC.
Claydon told the Silicon South-West newsletter: “Deltenna is a well funded, profitable company and it’s an opportunity for me to really make a difference.” Claydon had been doing consultancy work on strategic issues for Deltenna before joining the company.
“Deltenna has its own unique set of expertise and these are complemented by the arrival of Pete to put Deltenna
on the map,” said Andrew Fox.
Claydon is a major figure in the wireless industry having founded picoChip with Doug Pulley in the Belvedere pub in Bath ten years ago.
picoChip has attracted $90m worth of venture capital, and has achieved a leading position in Wimax and femtocell ICs.
Claydon invented the company’s multi-core processing technology and personally interviewed the company’s first fifty employees.
The Deltenna Frequency Re-bander enables the testing of base station equipment operating in bands other than UMTS Band I by re-banding the 1920-1980MHz uplink (UL) and 2110-2170MHz downlink (DL) to another operating band.
A fully duplexed UL/DL path allows interfacing directly to the primary antenna port of a widely available Band I test mobile or TEMS™. A second DL path allows testing of DL MIMO.
Deltenna identified the market need two years ago and developed its flexible Re-Bander products to address it.
The Re-Banders have a low noise figure and are very linear, which together with their high stability crystal references means that they can be used reliably in many test applications, as well as for field trials.
They are available with uplink outputs in bands 2 to 14 and at 8.3" x 8.0" x 1.75" (1U) are portable.
Claydon was formerly at Brooktree, and was general manager at both Conexant UK and Oak Technology UK before founding picoChip. He left picoChip last November.