Coresonic AB, a provider of baseband processor technology, announced the LeoCore-1 Programmable Baseband Processor SIP Core. With a new type of processor architecture, Coresonic has developed a programmable baseband. It is said that the LeoCore technology enables the developers of communication semiconductors to build more flexible solutions with less silicon area than fixed-function solutions. Coresonic licenses the technology as a Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) Core thereby enabling communication semiconductor vendors and module developers to implement this technology in their designs.
Dr. Dake Liu, CTO and co-founder of Coresonic, said, "After years of research we have presented an architecture that achieves the best of two worlds, the flexibility of a programmable processor with the low cost and low power consumption of a fixed-function ASIC. This technology is truly a revolution for the industry."
Coresonic also released the Coresonic Developer Studio, a fully-fledged software development package that enables the designers to quickly acquaint themselves and develop with the LeoCore architecture.
The flexibility of the LeoCore technology makes it a solution of a wide variety of wireless communication applications, including cellular handsets and modems for laptops and PDAs. LeoCore-1 supports WLAN standards 802.11 a/b/g, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth 1 and EDR, WiMAX and DVB-T.
Prof Dr Hermann Eul, president of communication solutions group, Infineon Technologies, said, "Data-rate and mobility tradeoffs and different standards like 2G, 3G, Bluetooth, WLAN, GPS and digital-video broadcasting, are leading to multimode requirements, and topics such as the coexistence of different technologies must be solved. One crucial element for such a platform is a low power programmable modem processor."
The LeoCore technology is suited for multimode, mobile, wireless communication. One typical application is a multimode laptop/PDA/cell phone modem capable of GSM/GPRS audio/data communication, Bluetooth, WLAN and WiMAX. The LeoCore-1 programmable baseband processor, together with an RF front-end, an ADC/DAC converter and the MAC are all components needed for a complete multimode wireless communication solution.
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