Joint de­vel­op­ment be­tween Lime Mi­crosys­tems and Blue Won­der to en­able ear­ly adop­tion of LTE

Lime Mi­crosys­tems and Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions an­nounce they are joint­ly de­vel­op­ing a com­plete LTE ref­er­ence plat­form that will en­able ear­ly adop­tion of this emerg­ing stan­dard. The ful­ly char­ac­terised LTE ref­er­ence plat­form will ac­cel­er­ate time to mar­ket for OEMs de­vel­op­ing LTE sys­tems. The ref­er­ence plat­form is based on Lime Mi­crosys­tems' in­te­grat­ed sin­gle chip RF transceiver, the LM­S6002, and Blue Won­der's ad­vanced base­band so­lu­tion.

"We are de­light­ed to be work­ing with Blue Won­der to ac­cel­er­ate the roll­out of LTE," com­ments Ebrahim Bushehri, CEO, Lime Mi­crosys­tems. "Co-op­er­a­tion be­tween sil­i­con and sys­tem sup­pli­ers is an essen­tial first step to­wards de­sign­ing end prod­ucts that will use the LTE stan­dard. The com­bi­na­tion of Lime's sin­gle-chip RF transceiver and Blue Won­der's ad­vanced base­band so­lu­tion is the first of its kind and will al­low ear­ly adopters to ac­cel­er­ate the time to mar­ket of LTE prod­ucts.

"Lime's ex­cel­lent RF transceiver will al­low us not on­ly to demon­strate our LTE so­lu­tion but will al­so provide us with the re­quired flex­i­bil­i­ty to ad­dress all aspects of the LTE stan­dard," com­ments Dr. Peter Mey­er, Manag­ing Di­rec­tor at Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions. "To­geth­er with Lime we can provide a com­plete pre-cer­ti­fied LTE so­lu­tion, which will dra­mat­i­cal­ly re­duce time to mar­ket for our
cus­tomers."

Lime Mi­crosys­tems' LM­S6002 is a mul­ti-band mul­ti-stan­dard RF transceiver IC de­signed for fem­to­cells and small cell bas­es­ta­tions. The high­ly fre­quen­cy ag­ile transceiver op­er­ates at user-se­lectable fre­quen­cies be­tween 375MHz and 4GHz and is suit­able for 3G, WiMAX, and LTE stan­dards. The transceiver can be dig­i­tal­ly con­fig­ured to op­er­ate in the full range of fre­quen­cy bands, with 16 user-se­lectable band­widths up to 28MHz. This re­moves the need for in­di­vid­u­al transceiver chips for each of the dif­fer­ent bands, and al­lows a small cell base sta­tion to be re­con­fig­ured rapid­ly and sim­ply. The re­sult­ing re­duc­tion in bill of ma­te­ri­als min­imis­es costs and in­ven­to­ry for OEMs. Lime's sin­gle-chip de­vice al­so of­fers foot­print and cost ad­van­tages over dis­crete so­lu­tions.

Blue Won­der's ad­vanced 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 RFF mul­ti-mode so­lu­tion, up to cat­e­go­ry 4 and is de­signed for low pow­er con­sump­tion. Blue Won­der will provide an FP­GA based de­vel­op­ment sys­tem, which in­cludes an in­ter­face to Lime's LM­S6002 transceiver to al­low all re­quired in­ter­op­er­abil­i­ty tests.