Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions us­es 4M Wire­less LTE Pro­to­col Stack to com­plete LTE Ref­er­ence Plat­form

Blue Won­der has in­te­grat­ed its LTE base­band so­lu­tion with the 4M Wire­less LTE pro­to­col as part of a com­plete LTE ter­mi­nal ref­er­ence plat­form

Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, to­day an­nounced that it has com­plet­ed in­te­gra­tion of its LTE ter­mi­nal base­band so­lu­tion with the 4M Wire­less LTE UE pro­to­col stack. This ac­tiv­i­ty marks an im­por­tant mile­stone for Blue Won­der in its abil­i­ty to of­fer a com­plete ref­er­ence plat­form for the LTE ter­mi­nal mar­ket with its part­ners.

Blue Won­ders ref­er­ence plat­form Blue­Gate utilis­es its ad­vanced base­band so­lu­tion and the in­te­grat­ed RF transceiver IC (LM­S6002) de­liv­ered by Lime Mi­crosys­tems. This fol­lows on from the pri­or joint de­vel­op­ment work be­tween the two com­pa­nies on the im­ple­men­ta­tion of an LTE ref­er­ence plat­form. Lime Mi­crosys­tems' fre­quen­cy ag­ile transceiver de­liv­ers op­er­a­tion at user-se­lectable fre­quen­cies be­tween 375MHz to 4GHz that can be dig­i­tal­ly con­fig­ured to op­er­ate in the full range of fre­quen­cy bands, with 16 user-se­lectable band­widths up to 28MHz. "The ful­ly char­ac­ter­ized LTE ref­er­ence plat­form will ac­cel­er­ate time to mar­ket for OEMs de­vel­op­ing LTE sys­tems", said Ebrahim Bushehri, CEO of Lime.

Blue Won­der's base­band so­lu­tion is a com­plete LTE sub­sys­tem that can easi­ly be in­te­grat­ed in Sys­tem on Chip plat­forms. It pro­vides a 3GPP Re­lease 8 TDD and FDD mul­ti-mode solu-tion, up to cat­e­go­ry 4 and is op­ti­mized for low­est pow­er con­sump­tion and small­est chip area. The Blue Won­der LTE Phys­i­cal Lay­er in­clud­ing Lay­er 1 soft­ware in­cludes in­ter­faces to the 4M Wire­less LTE pro­to­col stack.

The 4M Wire­less PS100 LTE pro­to­col soft­ware is the most ad­vanced so­lu­tion in the in­dus­try, con­sist­ing of the com­plete 3GPP Re­lease 8 com­pli­ant stack which in­cludes LTE Lay­er 2, Lay­er 3 and NAS pro­to­col lay­ers. The pro­to­col stack is op­ti­mized for low pow­er con­sump­tion and ef­fi­cient pro­ces­sor uti­liza­tion. To en­able in­te­gra­tion and in­ter­op­er­abil­i­ty test­ing, 4M Wire­less pro­vides a full set of test and de­bug­ging tools with its LTE stack. The 4M Wire­less stack has been test­ed with lead­ing eN­odeB ven­dors and is in­cor­po­rat­ed in sev­er­al LTE prod­ucts in the mar­ket.

In ad­di­tion to the close as­sis­tance pro­vid­ed by the sup­port engi­neers of 4M Wire­less, the porta­bil­i­ty and the well de­fined in­ter­faces of its soft­ware stack helped to ease the in­te­gra­tion ef­fort. At the same time the ex­per­tise of the Blue Won­der engi­neers in LTE and modem tech­nolo­gies as well as the in­no­va­tive ar­chi­tec­ture of its pro­duct fur­ther fa­cil­i­tat­ed the in­te­gra­tion of the two tech­nolo­gies.

"4M Wire­less pro­vides the most thor­ough­ly test­ed LTE pro­to­col stack soft­ware avail­able, ben­e­fit­ing from sig­nif­i­cant con­for­mance, in­ter­op­er­abil­i­ty and In­ter­RAT han­dover test­ing in the in­dus­try", com­ment­ed Dr. Matthi­as Weiss, VP Pro­grams at Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions. "Their high­ly pro­fes­sion­al tech­ni­cal team was very re­spon­sive and helped us to short­en our in­te­gra­tion and pro­duct de­vel­op­ment."

"We are very pleased to be work­ing with Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and en­abling it to com­plete a LTE ref­er­ence plat­form. Blue Won­der is on its way to be­come the fore­most provider of the most op­ti­mized LTE modem semi­con­duc­tor IP to tar­get the high vol­ume mo­bile mar­ket. The in­te­gra­tion of the 4M Wire­less' lead­ing LTE pro­to­col stack and Blue Won­der's in­no­va­tive LTE base­band pro­gressed smooth­ly which high­lights the deep ex­pe­ri­ence of both com­pa­nies," said At­if Ma­lik, CEO of 4M Wire­less. "Com­bin­ing our so­lu­tions strong­ly po­si­tions us both to provide vi­tal tech­nol­o­gy to those com­pa­nies look­ing to de­vel­op user equip­ment prod­ucts for LTE TDD and FDD."