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CEVA and mimoOn are launching a range of LTE reference architectures.
Based on CEVA’s Ceva-XC communications processor IP, the reference designs are software upgradeable to support additional wireless communication standards such as WCDMA, HSPA+ and WiMAX.
Intended for LTE FDD and LTE TDD up to category-4, the designs can be scaled down to TDD mode only or lower LTE categories for lower power systems.
“Through our partnership with mimoOn, we are able to offer our customers complete and highly optimized LTE PHY reference architectures for a range of high volume 4G products, including handsets, data modems, femtocells and picocells,” said Eran Briman, v-p of marketing at CEVA.
In 40nm LP process, the silicon area of a CEVA-XC based LTE UE can be as low as 4mm2 with a power consumption of less than 200mW for Cat-4 PHY system (20MHz bandwidth, MIMO 2x2, 150Mbit/s).
According to Brian Robertson, v-p sales and marketing of mimoOn: “Our partnership is the result of two years close collaboration and serves to meet the industry demand for licensable LTE solutions that offer significant cost and time-to-market benefits.”
It will be used for design of both femtocells and picocells.
The reference design is already being used by a wireless vendor and it can be seen at CEVA’s booth at Mobile World Congress from 14 to 17 February.