IDT Announces Optimized CPRI -solution with Serial RapidIO to Address Rapidly Evolving Wireless Market

IDT Announces Optimized CPRI -solution with Serial RapidIO to Address Rapidly Evolving Wireless Market

IDT announced a new family of common public radio interface (CPRI[1])-based functional interconnect chip (FIC) solutions.

Off-the-shelf, Low Cost Devices Augment ASIC/FPGA Implementations Providing CPRI Standard between Radio Cards and Baseband Processing Modules

These products, which bridge adjacent standards within the wireless infrastructure, will reduce development time and cost and enable developers of base station architectures to more readily meet the needs of the rapidly evolving wireless market sector.

These FIC solutions are the first such devices optimized to allow the common CPRI standard to span the interface between the wireless radio card and a Serial RapidIO-enabled base band processing system. With the IDT family of FICs, system architects are able to offload the translation and connection tasks from the current alternatives – typically an ASIC or FPGA- thus reducing design development time and risk along with providing significant cost savings.

“In order to meet the ongoing consumer demand for advanced wireless services, such as mobile video, while maintaining competitive pricing and reducing development time, wireless infrastructure OEMs need devices which address a variety of standards,” said Ramesh Kumar, world wide marketing director for Texas Instruments' Wireless Baseband Infrastructure Group.CPRI is the standard developed and adopted by leading wireless infrastructure companies to provide a common interface that allows system designers flexibility to optimize base station modules independently to meet the fast-paced performance enhancements demanded by the wireless market.