STMicroelectronics Offers One-Stop Shopping for Pico Base Stations

STMicroelectronics Offers One-Stop Shopping for Pico Base Stations

STMicroelectronics unveiled the industry's most comprehensive solution for pico-cell base-station modems. ST's unique offering combines the superior performance of the market's first SoC baseband processor for wireless infrastructure applications, the STW51000, with multi-standard software libraries, optimized for GSM, EDGE, W-CDMA, and WiMAX networks.

Hardware and software package bundles the industry’s first baseband modem SoC with multi-standard software libraries

Driving up base-station channel density, ST has tested and specified the device to be used with 20 concurrent voice users in a Release 4 WCDMA network.

Pico-cell base stations provide enhanced wireless coverage inside office buildings, college campuses, subways, airports etc. Their importance grows with the arrival of 3G services, where even a relatively small number of high-speed data users can consume all the available resources of the nearest macro-cell base station. Recent industry research also suggests that as much as 70 per cent of subscribers will be located indoors when accessing wireless broadband applications.