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

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    Lime Microsystems and Blue Wonder Communications have announced they are jointly developing a complete LTE reference platform that will enable early adoption of the emerging standard. The fully characterised LTE reference platform, it's claimed, 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 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, while the 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 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.