Mobile World Congress provides a great opportunity for Lime to showcase its transceiver technology alongside complementary technologies such as Freescale’s baseband and power amplifier solutions, comments Dr. Ebrahim Bushehri, CEO of Lime Microsystems. Our digitally reconfigurable design supports a variety of network configurations, bandwidths and data rates, which will cut costs and inventory for wireless system OEMs and operators.
The reference design is targeted at small cell base station applications – femtocells and picocells – and features 6 user-selectable channel bandwidths from 1.5MHz to 14 MHz. The transceiver can be digitally configured to operate in bands from 350MHz to 4GHz, making it suitable for LTE, WiMAX and 3G applications. Using a high-level command set, the design can be configured for half-duplex and full-duplex operation in both frequency division multiplex (FDM) and time division multiplex (TDM) modes.
Lime Microsystems has design teams in both the UK and Lithuania and has developed a patent-protected transceiver design that will substantially reduce the size and cost of next-generation broadband wireless transceivers. The company’s first semiconductors will be launched in Q1, 2008.