TurboConcept LTE/WiMAX Solutions Integrated into Altair Semiconductor's LTE FourGee Product Line - TMCnet.com

TE/WiMAX Solutions Integrated into Altair Semiconductor's LTE FourGee Product Line
TMCnet.com
Anshu Shrivastava

July 1, 2009

Altair Semiconductor, a fabless chip company developing advanced 4G mobile semiconductors for handheld devices, has announced that it has successfully integrated the TurboConcept LTE/WiMAX solutions in its LTE FourGee product line.

Company officials said in a release that they have successfully integrated two successive turbo code IP core generations from TurboConcept. This week, the company integrated the LTE/WiMAX dual-mode Core, while in 2007 it integrated the WiMAX-only Core.

The company’s FourGee-3100 LTE baseband processor has integrated TurboConcepts’ dual-mode turbo decoder core. Thus the company is able to bring its LTE products to market more quickly by leveraging existing, successful technology, and proven partners such as TurboConcept, said Eran Eshed, co-founder and vice president of marketing and business development at Altair.

Eshed said that the Altair FourGee-2150 for mobile WiMAX—which includes a TurboConcept core—is recognized as a “market leader in high performance and power efficiency,” adding that the LTE chipsets integrating a similar core from TurboConcept offer the same advantages.

In addition to implementing WiMAX (IEEE802.16d/e), the TurboConcept 4G dual-mode turbo decoder Core TC1700 also implements 3GPP-LTE (3GPP Release 8) convolutional turbo code specifications. Company officials said that it’s an “ideal solution” for Base station or CPE receivers implementing both physical layers.

Moreover, two throughput profiles are available. The profiles cover respectively 100 or 200 Mbits/s decoded bit-rate. And, officials said that the Core includes the sub-block de-interleaving and CRC decoding functions, and allows switching between LTE and WiMAX mode, for each forward error correction (FEC) block.

“We are convinced that our solutions combined within Altair’s unique low-power architecture, will turn rapidly into success in the LTE market.” said Jacky Tousch, co-founder and chief technology officer at TurboConcept, in the release.

TurboConcept is a provider of Intellectual Property Cores for advanced FEC techniques –Turbo and LDPC codes. Company has a comprehensive portfolio of Cores covering Convolutional Turbo Codes, Turbo Product Codes and LDPC codes, and more.

Earlier in February, Wavesat selected company’s WiMAX/LTE dual-mode turbo decoder to empower its agile 4G multi-mode solutions.