Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Launch­es LTE-IP Pro­duct BWC200

World's First Em­bed­dable LTE Modem IP is Ready to Li­cense

Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, the in­de­pen­dent de­sign house and li­cen­sor of LTE-IP and sys­tem so­lu­tions, to­day an­nounced the avail­abil­i­ty of its em­bed­dable LTE modem IP (In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty) pro­duct BWC200. It con­sti­tutes a com­plete LTE sub­sys­tem that can easi­ly be in­te­grat­ed in Sys­tem-on-Chip (SoC) plat­forms and con­sists of a com­plete phys­i­cal lay­er in­clud­ing lay­er 1 hard- and soft­ware.

„We would like our cus­tomers to be able to fo­cus on what they know best - build­ing com­plex fea­ture rich SoCs based on first class IP with­out di­vert­ing their valu­able re­sources to the de­vel­op­ment of cel­lu­lar modems", states Dr. Wol­fram Drescher, Manag­ing Di­rec­tor at Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions. "With BWC200, semi­con­duc­tor com­pa­nies are now able to ac­quire all of our LTE modem and SoC ex­per­tise in a sin­gle IP pack­age."

BWC200 is a TDD and FDD mul­ti­mode so­lu­tion, up to cat­e­go­ry 4, yield­ing data rates of 150 Mbps. TDD (time di­vi­sion du­plex­ing) and FDD (fre­quen­cy di­vi­sion du­plex­ing) are mod­es for the data trans­mis­sion via LTE that dif­fer in the num­ber of fre­quen­cy bands used. While in TDD mode the same fre­quen­cy band will be used - se­quen­tial­ly - to trans­mit and re­ceive sig­nals, in FDD mode the re­ceiver and trans­mit­ter op­er­ate - si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly - at dif­fer­ent fre­quen­cy bands. Since both mod­es are used in dif­fer­ent re­gions of the world and even with­in the same re­gion, BWC200 en­ables the usage of LTE ap­pli­ca­tions ev­ery­where. Fur­ther­more, BWC200 is ful­ly 3GPP Re­lease 8 com­pli­ant and op­ti­mized for low­est pow­er con­sump­tion and small­est chip area.

"Com­plex­i­ty of com­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tems does not scale but even in­crease over time. 20 years ago modems were com­plete end cus­tomer prod­ucts. To­day they are just one build­ing block amongst many", com­ments Dr. Peter Mey­er, Manag­ing Di­rec­tor and Head of De­vel­op­ment. "Pro­gres­sive so­lu­tions need to be size and pow­er op­ti­mized, easy to in­te­grate and flex­i­ble to be tai­lored to cus­tomer needs. And that's what BWC200 is."

BWC200 will be de­liv­ered pre-val­i­dat­ed on the Blue Won­der de­vel­op­ment plat­form Blue­Gate and re­al-time test­ed again­st state-of-the-art pro­to­col testers. It is part of a joint ref­er­ence plat­form Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions is de­vel­op­ing in co­op­er­a­tion with its part­ners. BWC200 is avail­able for li­censees now.