Aricent Introduces Multi-Platform UMTS Baseband & WiMAX Base Station Software Solution.Semiconductor Companies to Benefit from First C Programming Language Implementation A programming language implementation is a system for executing programs written in a programming language. There are two general approaches to programming language implementation:
PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Aricent, the full-service, full-spectrum communications software (communications, software) communications software - Application programs, operating system components, and probably firmware, forming part of a communication system. These different software components might be classified according to the functions within the Open Systems company, today announced the introduction of its new UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) The GSM implementation of the 3G wireless phone system. Part of IMT-2000, UMTS provides service in the 2 GHz band and offers global roaming and personalized features. baseband and WiMAX base station software solution. The Aricent software is the first C programming language implementation of core baseband modules which, combined with Aricent software services, enables porting onto multiple semiconductor platforms including digital signaling processors (DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive ) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. ). The Aricent UMTS baseband and WiMAX base station solution enables semiconductor manufacturers to rapidly enter the femtocell, picocell and WiMAX base station markets. Aricent software and services will reduce semiconductor companies' development risk and shorten their time-to-market. The WiMAX software, when combined with third-party hardware, enables companies to build reference designs or WiMAX base station products. The software is designed for easy porting to different media access control (MAC) platforms, hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. and operating systems, including Linux. "Aricent's multi-platform UMTS baseband and WiMAX base station software will slash time-to-market for both semiconductor and hardware companies," said Ajay Gupta, vice president of the wireless and convergence business unit, Aricent. "The Aricent software is the industry's first high level programming language implementation for UMTS and WiMAX, and backed by our expert services, can kick-start a wide array of communication products." Key elements of the Aricent UMTS baseband and WiMAX base station solution include: * A software services practice with expertise in UMTS, femtocell, picocell and WiMAX base station implementations; * A highly modular UMTS baseband engine with easy-to-use APIs, which enable porting onto a range of processors (DSP, FPGA, SoC); * Multiple physical layer functionality in the UMTS baseband engine which allows core function re-use in uplink and downlink implementations; * A WiMAX basestation framework that conforms to the 802.16e (2004/2005) specification; * Complete basestation software above the MAC layer and flexible interfaces to the MAC layer below RF in the WiMAX basestation framework; and * Built-in debugging, trace and diagnostic features to speed product development. Aricent will demonstrate the UMTS baseband and WiMAX basestation software in Booth #14 at SAME, 2007, Sophia Antipolis, France, October 3-4, 2007. About Aricent With corporate offices in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. , Aricent is a full-service, full-spectrum communications software company. Aricent offers software services and products that enable the world's leading communications equipment manufacturers, device manufacturers and service providers to improve time-to-revenue and maximize efficiency. Owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (commonly referred to as KKR) is a New York City-based private equity firm that focuses primarily on late-stage leveraged buyouts. It was founded in 1976 by Jerome Kohlberg, Jr., and cousins Henry Kravis and George R. & Co., Sequoia Capital and Flextronics International Ltd., Aricent has more than 350 clients worldwide, including Airtel, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Inmarsat, Juniper, Motorola, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Texas Instruments, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone. For more information, visit www.aricent.com Aricent is a trademark of Aricent, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. |
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