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Revised: Texas Instruments Applies Communications Infrastructure
Leadership to WiMAX Market with New Offerings TI WiMAX Solutions Enable
Infrastructure OEMs to Quickly Deliver Products to Market
DALLAS, Feb 27, 2006 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Extending its leadership in wireless infrastructure applications, Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) (TI) today announced a new portfolio of digital and analog products for WiMAX applications. By addressing the complete signal chain, TI enables OEMs to leverage their existing 3G designs to quickly develop WiMAX products. The availability of field-ready infrastructure products will spur deployment of WiMAX-enabled services into the market. These products will also support other applications built around OFDM technology. [For more information, please go to http://www.ti.com/wimaxwi ]
Earlier this year, the WiMAX Forum announced the first WiMAX Forum Certified(TM) products, based on the IEEE 802.16-2004 and ETSI HiperMAN standards. Forward Concepts estimates that by 2009, sales of fixed and mobile WiMAX equipment will reach $2 billion.


End-to-End Infrastructure Solution Speeds Product Development TI's new WiMAX portfolio includes: * Support for fixed and mobile wireless infrastructure applications, as well as multiple frequency bands. As a result, OEMs can develop a single infrastructure platform that can be quickly and cost- effectively configured for each operator's or country's requirements. * The TMS320TCI6482 DSP at 1 GHz plus a WiMAX physical layer software library optimized for the DSP platform. * A portfolio of radio frequency (RF) products as well as data converters, up/down converters and amplifiers. * Reference designs, AMC and ATCA cards from several third parties. [See http://www.ti.com/wimaxwi for additional press releases.] * Support for MIMO Smart Antenna technology via ArrayComm. ArrayComm and TI have recently collaborated on a reference design for WiMAX infrastructure applications.
"TI has played a key role in growing the wireless infrastructure market," said Kent Novak, worldwide manager of TI's high speed communications business unit. "Our WiMAX portfolio further demonstrates our leadership and these new products allow OEMs to leverage their own intellectual property while reducing the cost, risk and lead time for entering the WiMAX market."
"Manufacturers anticipated that the move to 3G would lead to a single standard for wireless infrastructure technology," said Jagdish Rebello of iSuppli Corporation. "However, multiple standards continue to flourish today, leaving wireless operators and OEMs with a wide variety of air interface technologies to support. OEMs look for ways to extend their technology investments and establish leadership positions in emerging markets, like WiMAX. TI is well positioned to provide customers with a portfolio of products, enabling them to re-use their common platforms in emerging and future markets."
TI's WiMAX portfolio is also attractive for infrastructure vendors, who now can leverage components used across a wide variety of technologies. This applicability for multiple markets translates into high volumes, which drive down their cost and helps create a low-cost alternative for emerging vendors to enter the burgeoning WiMAX sector.
TI demonstrated its ongoing commitment and support to the WiMAX industry by joining the WiMAX Forum earlier this year. As a WiMAX Forum member, TI will collaborate with other companies to understand the needs and concerns of the growing WiMAX industry while helping to drive standards.
TI announced its first WiMAX products last year and plans several additions to its portfolio of WiMAX products throughout this year.
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Texas Instruments Newest Communications Infrastructure Technology Prepares Service Providers for WiMAX and Beyond DSP-based Solution Enables Manufacturers to Roll out Advanced WiMAX Infrastructure Technologies More Quickly
DALLAS (Feb. 27, 2006) - Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) (TI) today announced its newest 1 GHz DSP-based 802.16e base station solution, enabling its customers to develop customized, high-performance WiMAX systems. This new product supports the mobile WiMAX standard and addresses the growing market need for this emerging technology. TI's newest WiMAX infrastructure solution incorporates the TMS320TCI6482 high-performance DSP, optimized baseband software and development tools. For more information, please visit http://www.ti.com/wimaxwi .
"The quick ratification of the 802.16e mobile WiMAX standard late last year, indicates a strong interest by the technology's supporters to bring products to market at the same time as other advanced wireless standards, like 3G EV-DO and HSDPA," said Gemma Tedesco, In-Stat senior analyst. "Additionally, the WiMAX chipset market is anticipated to reach $950 million by 2009, offering companies like TI a unique opportunity to capitalize on this quickly-growing industry, while developing technologies similar to those that have given them strong market leadership."
Reusing Technology to Meet Future Demands
TI's flexible system solution supports both fixed and mobile applications across multiple frequency bands. This flexibility enables equipment manufacturers to create cost-effective system configurations that can be used for multiple WiMAX applications including cellular backhaul, rural deployments, portable mobility and last mile connectivity.
At the heart of TI's solution for WiMAX is the TMS320TCI6482 DSP, designed for wireless infrastructure applications. TI's 1 GHz DSP improves cost and power per channel by efficiently processing WiMAX physical layer, IFFT/FFT and MIMO/beamforming algorithms. The programmable DSP-based solution can be easily software upgraded in the field to support advanced features, thereby protecting manufacturers' and service providers' initial technology investment.
Complementing the TCI6482 DSP is a commercial quality software library implementing key physical layer functions of the WiMAX standard. The highly optimized and tested software reduces product development time, while allowing manufacturers to customize the software and add their own intellectual property. TI's phased software development approach enables customers to get to market quickly with a working system, while allowing them to use additional software components to add capabilities and services over time. This level of flexibility is very important to the manufacturers who need to differentiate their product offering from their competitors.
Creating a WiMAX solution using TI's DSP and software libraries is made easier through the use of TI's leading software development environment and hardware platforms. TI's new Platinum Edition of its Code Composer Studio(TM) Integrated Development Environment is available today, providing new debug and code profiling features for the TCI6482 DSP. Further, hardware platforms are available from TI and its third party partners in a variety of form factors, including ATCA Mezzanine Cards (AMC) housing one or multiple TCI6482 DSPs. The combination of high performance, programmable DSPs, application libraries and the right development tools allow equipment manufacturers to get started easily and get to market quickly with highly flexible, differentiated WiMAX basestation solutions.
"Our customers are asking for a flexible and cost-effective means of supporting WiMAX networks," said Sandeep Kumar, TI's wireless infrastructure strategic marketing manager. "TI's solutions make it easier for them to upgrade their systems to support advanced features as WiMAX evolves. Additionally, because our solutions are based on programmable DSPs, our customers can reuse their hardware and software to support other emerging OFDM standards."
Broad Portfolio of Products for Advanced WiMAX Base Stations
TI's new DSP-based solution for WiMAX joins an already robust set of products available from TI to address this emerging standard. Last year, TI announced its broad line of radio frequency chipsets for 2.5GHz, 3.5GHz and 5.8GHz frequencies. TI has also announced today a new member of its radio frequency (RF) family, the TRF3703, an ultra-low-noise 4 GHz quadrature modulator. With a seamless interface to TI's high-speed DAC5687 digital-to- analog converter (DAC), the new quadrature modulator provides a direct means of converting baseband or intermediate frequency (IF) signals to RF transmission levels.
Availability
TI's new WiMAX base station solution includes the TCI6482 DSP and highly optimized symbol rate and chip rate software libraries. The solution is currently available, with full production expected later this year.
For more information on this product and TI's complete line of communications infrastructure solutions, please visit http://www.ti.com/wi .
Texas Instruments Introduces Ultra-Low-Noise 4 GHz Quadrature Modulator for


2.5/3G, WiMAX Infrastructure Transmitters New TRF3703 IQ Modulator Supports Direct Baseband-to-RF Conversion, Saving Design Cost and Complexity
DALLAS (February 27, 2006) - Advancing its leadership as a provider of enabling technology for the wireless industry, Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) (TI) today announced a high-performance, low-noise in-phase quadrature (IQ) modulator supporting radio frequency (RF) transmissions up to 4 GHz in wireless infrastructure equipment. The new TRF3703 modulator supports third-generation (3G) CDMA and GSM wireless telephone networks, as well as WiMAX (802.16e) metropolitan-area data networks (MANs). With a seamless interface to TI's high-speed DAC5687 digital-to-analog converter (DAC), the new quadrature modulator provides manufacturers of wireless infrastructure equipment an affordable means to directly convert baseband or intermediate frequency (IF) signals to RF transmission levels, thereby reducing the bill of materials, space and power consumption, while offering faster development times and manufacturing cost savings. [For more information, please go to http://www.ti.com\wimaxwi ]
"The TRF3703 quadrature modulator demonstrates TI's ability to provide best-in-class technology for WiMAX infrastructure equipment, just as we have for wireless 2G and 3G infrastructures," said David Briggs, manager for TI's wireless infrastructure business unit. "TI's intent is to drive this emerging market by providing the most complete infrastructure signal chain, enabling manufacturers to develop more complete, flexible end equipments that reduce the overall total cost of ownership for service providers."
The TRF3703 builds on TI's success with earlier quadrature modulators and other signal-chain devices, adding ultra-low-noise and high-frequency RF transmission modulation to TI's comprehensive line of analog and digital products for wireless infrastructure. The device is capable of accepting modulated input signals ranging from zero (DC) to 350 megahertz (MHz), then providing RF output modulation from 400 MHz up to 4 GHz. This broad range of input-to-output levels allows the modulator to support direct conversion in equipment devoted to a wide range of transmission standards.
Implemented using TI's advanced silicon-germanium (SiGe) manufacturing process, the next-generation TRF3703 offers performance characteristics over a wide frequency range that are ahead of anything available in comparable products. A low noise floor of -164 decibel-milliwatt per Hertz (dBm/Hz) and an outstanding linearity of 25 dBm for the third order intercept point (OIP3) help in eliminating (reducing) the need for additional filtering. The adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) is 77 dBc for -11 dBm single-carrier WCDMA transmission, helping to ensure the clear separation of channels.
Cost-Effective Solutions for the Entire Signal Chain
The TRF3703 is a key element in TI's strategy to provide cost-effective solutions for the complete wireless signal chain. TI has been a leading-edge supplier of technology for wireless infrastructure applications for over 10 years, and is the only company today that supplies a complete analog and digital solution for the entire WiMAX infrastructure signal chain. Analog solutions from TI include data converters, RF chipsets and op amps, as well as reference designs to help speed development. TI's TMS320TCI6482 programmable digital signal processor (DSP), operating at speeds up to 1 GHz, is capable of handling multiple 3G air interface standards and a range of base station form factors on a single chip. The TCI6482 DSP's unique combination of high performance and power efficiency provides infrastructure OEMs with a platform to upgrade current systems easily and expand product portfolios efficiently.
Design Flexibility
The TRF3703 quadrature modulator interfaces to a variety of DACs for flexibility in RF transmitter design. With a seamless interface to TI's high- performance DAC5687 converter, the modulator provides a complete, easily implemented solution for direct up-conversion. The low-noise DAC5687 saves on external implementation by integrating phase, gain and offset adjustment features for interfacing to quadrature modulators. The TRF3703-DAC5687 combined solution replaces two RF up-conversion stages, saving mixers, buffer amps, local oscillators and RF filters. Transmitters designed using this architectural combination save space, power, components and cost compared with heterodyne solutions.
Operating from a single 5-volt supply, the TRF3703 modulator is implemented as a double-balanced mixer. The RF output block consists of a differential to single-ended converter and an RF amplifier that is capable of driving a single-ended 50-ohm load without any external components. Output compression of 10 dBm, unadjusted carrier leakage of -40 dBm (at 2GHz) and unadjusted sideband suppression of -40 dBc (at 2GHz) all serve to keep signal quality high and simplify design.
Availability, Pricing and Packaging
The TRF3703 quadrature modulator is sampling now, with volume production scheduled for Q2 2006. The device is packaged in a space-saving 4x4 mm, 24- pin QFN (quad flatpack no-lead) package. Pricing is planned at $7 per unit in quantities of 1K units.


ArrayComm and TI Collaborate on Smart Antenna Technology For Wireless Infrastructure Applications
Combined Solution Increases Range, Data Rates, Capacity and Coverage Quality for WiMAX and 3G
SAN JOSE, Calif. and DALLAS (February 27, 2006) - Addressing wireless service providers' needs to reduce operating expenses while increasing network performance, ArrayComm and Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) (TI) today announced a collaboration to combine ArrayComm's smart antenna technology with TI's high-performance digital signal processing for wireless infrastructure applications. Compared with existing systems, this combined solution provides operators with four-fold improvements in wireless system coverage, data rates more than doubled, and a capacity increase as much as ten times, all with better coverage quality for 802.16/WiMAX and WCDMA/HSDPA networks. Service providers using the combined solution will reduce capital and operating costs while increasing network performance. For more information, please visit http://www.ti.com/wimaxwi .
The combination of ArrayComm's Network MIMO(TM) smart antenna software and TI's family of high-performance TMS320TCI6482 DSPs on a single reference design provides base station equipment manufacturers with critical differentiation including shorter time to market, higher equipment performance and greater flexibility as wireless standards evolve.
"Our collaboration is a win-win for both the service provider and the base station equipment manufacturer," said Steve Sifferman, executive vice president of operations with ArrayComm. "TI has the industry's most powerful, versatile and complete DSP platform for wireless infrastructure solutions. Coupling TI's DSP with our smart antenna software will yield substantial improvements in the service providers' network implementations for both 3G and WiMAX."
The first element of this collaboration is a reference design for WiMAX infrastructure applications that incorporates ArrayComm's Network MIMO software, offering unique support of multiple input / multiple output (MIMO), adaptive antenna system (AAS) and combined MIMO/AAS modes. ArrayComm's Network MIMO software implements all the antenna processing aspects of the WiMAX profiles approved by the WiMAX Forum Mobile Task Group (MTG) for IEEE 802.16e. MIMO and AAS, used in combination, increase subscriber data rates, improve cell-edge link budgets, manage interference, and maximize overall network capacity. The result is a significant performance advantage for WiMAX. The Network MIMO architecture leverages more than 14 years of ArrayComm experience in commercial smart antenna applications, yielding a software solution that accelerates development of advanced base station products and reduces technical risk.
For the first time, ArrayComm' Network MIMO software has been ported to TI's 1 GHz TMS320TCI6482 DSP. This optimized DSP performs at nearly twice the clock speed of other available solutions, yet consumes only three watts of power, making it the industry's most power efficient DSP for wireless infrastructure systems. The TCI6482 DSP's unique combination of high performance and low power provides infrastructure OEMs with a platform to upgrade current systems easily and expand product portfolios efficiently. The software programmable nature of the TCI6482 DSP allows users to upgrade their solutions to meet the needs of evolving standards. Also, it simplifies feature changes and upgrades to meet certification requirements.
"ArrayComm's expertise in smart antenna technology matched with TI's industry-leading TCI6482 DSP creates a unique combination that can positively impact equipment manufacturers' ease of use and time to market," said Jerold Givens, DSP platform manager, communications infrastructure, Texas Instruments. "In addition, this solution will help carriers to lower their deployment costs and further protect their network investments."
About ArrayComm
ArrayComm LLC, a Ygomi Group company, is the leader in antenna processing for wireless systems. ArrayComm software delivers large gains in range, capacity, data rates, and coverage quality for all wireless communications protocols, in base station, client device, or MIMO architectures. ArrayComm smart antenna software is implemented in WiMAX, PHS, GSM, WLL, WCDMA, and HC- SDMA networks, and it is operating in more than 275,000 commercial deployments today. For wireless equipment manufacturers, tapping ArrayComm's unmatched experience in smart antenna applications enables significant performance and time-to-market advantages while reducing development cost and technical risk. For more information, please visit http://www.arraycomm.com
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