PMC-Sierra Introduces a Reference Design Kit to Accelerate the Design of Advanced 3G Wireless Base Stations.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers BURNABY, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 2001 PMC-Sierra (Nasdaq:PMCS PMCS PMC Sierra (stock symbol) PMCS Project Management Control System PMCS partial mission-capable, supply (US DoD) PMCS Preventive Maintenance Checks & Services PMCS Professional Military Comptroller School ) today announced the PM2360-KIT Gandalf reference design kit, a full reference platform for advanced 3G wireless base station designs based on PMC-Sierra's PM7815 PALADIN-15(TM) product. The Gandalf reference design kit enables system developers to design highly efficient and low-cost digital multi-carrier base station designs. This turn-key kit provides the essential components for the base station designer to prototype an advanced linearized multi-carrier transmitter sub-system for W-CDMA See WCDMA. and cdma2000 applications. The designer only needs to add a signal source and a simple, low-cost, Class-AB high power amplifier Power amplifier The final stage in multistage amplifiers, such as audio amplifiers and radio transmitters, designed to deliver appreciable power to the load. (HPA (1) (High Performance Addressing) Refers to a variety of earlier addressing techniques that improved the quality of a passive matrix (LCD) screen. (2) (High Power A ) module. The Gandalf development evaluation board integrates PMC-Sierra's PALADIN-15 chip, which eliminates transmitter distortions and improves spectral efficiency Spectral efficiency or spectrum efficiency refers to the amount of information that can be transmitted over a given bandwidth in a specific digital communication system. in wireless base transceiver stations (BTS BTS - Bug Tracking System ) at dramatically lower power and cost with higher efficiency than existing implementations. The PALADIN-15 chip design enables 15 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. multi-carrier W-CDMA and cdma2000 applications without using costly, power-hungry, feed-forward radio frequency (RF) amplifiers. The PALADIN-15 chip provides all of the core digital adaptive predistortion and analog quadrature quadrature, in astronomy, arrangement of two celestial bodies at right angles to each other as viewed from a reference point. If the reference point is the earth and the sun is one of the bodies, a planet is in quadrature when its elongation is 90°. modulator Modulator Any device or circuit by means of which a desired signal is impressed upon a higher-frequency periodic wave known as a carrier. The process is called modulation. The modulator may vary the amplitude, frequency, or phase of the carrier. (AQM AQM Active Queue Management AQM Air Quality Management AQM Acquisition Management AQM Assistant Quartermaster (Civil War) AQM Additive Quark Model AQM Analog Quadrature Modulator AQM Acenaphthenequinone Monoxime ) compensation functions required for linearized multi-carrier transmitter architectures. The reference kit also includes a complete wideband radio reference board that is performance matched to the PALADIN-15 chip and connects directly to the Gandalf development evaluation board. The Gandalf development evaluation board system enables BTS control processor software developers to integrate and test the PALADIN control software in a RF system before the digital hardware is ready. This initial software development environment can be either on a PC or another processor. In a PC environment all the necessary software drivers are provided to communicate with the Gandalf board by a standard data interface. "The Gandalf reference design kit, which is currently in design with several of the large base station manufacturers worldwide, offers a complete end-to-end 3G system design solution," said Laurie Wallace, director of marketing of PMC-Sierra's Access Products Division. "PMC-Sierra's innovative designs, like our PALADIN(TM) chips, offer breakthrough digital pre-distortion power amplifier technology that is low-cost, highly-efficient and meet the time-to-market challenges critical for success." "Through its unique deployment of pre-distortion technology, PMC-Sierra's PALADIN product family could be the operational heart of a new class of high-performance RF power amplifiers for third generation cellular base stations," said Will Strauss, principal analyst of Forward Concepts. "Since RF amplifiers are one of the most expensive components in a base station, PALADIN offers the promise of using fewer amplifiers, which can lead to a significant reduction in wireless infrastructure cost." PMC-Sierra's PALADIN Family PMC-Sierra's wireless base station devices include the PM7800 PALADIN-10(TM) and PM7815 PALADIN-15 chip solutions. The PALADIN-10 is suitable for up to 2-carrier W-CDMA and up to 6-carrier IS-95/cdma2000 multi-carrier systems. The PALADIN-15 is suitable for up to 3-carrier W-CDMA/UMTS and up to 9-carrier IS-95/cdma2000 systems. Pricing and Availability The PM2360-KIT Gandalf reference design kit is available now and priced at $20,000 per kit. For more information about this reference design kit please contact a PMC-Sierra sales representative at http://www.pmc-sierra.com/contactSales/. A comprehensive support package including reference design documents, application notes and user manuals is available on PMC-Sierra's web site at http://www.pmc-sierra.com/products/details/pm7815/index.asp. About PMC-Sierra PMC-Sierra is accelerating the broadband revolution. PMC-Sierra is a leading provider of high speed broadband communications semiconductors and MIPS-based processors for Access, Metro Transport and Optical Transport network equipment that make up the backbone of the Internet. The company offers worldwide technical and sales support, including a network of offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. The company's quality system is registered with the Quality Management Institute to the ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 standard. As co-founder of the SATURN(R) Development Group, PMC-Sierra works with over 30 other member companies to define and develop interoperable, standard-compliant solutions for high speed networking applications. PMC-Sierra is included in the S&P 500 Index which consists of 500 stocks chosen for market size, liquidity, and industry group representation and in the Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX NDX Index NDX Index (File Name Extension) NDX Northern Document Exchange NDX Index File ) which contains the largest non-financial companies on the Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. . PMC-Sierra is publicly traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the PMCS symbol. For more information about PMC-Sierra, visit http://www.pmc-sierra.com. Attachments Figure 1: PMC-Sierra's PM2360-KIT Gandalf Reference Design Kit To view Figure 1, go to http://www.pmc-sierra.com/pressroom/pdf/paladinref_fig1.pdf Technical Glossary To view the Technical Glossary, go to http://www.pmc-sierra.com/pressroom/glossary.html (c)Copyright PMC-Sierra, Inc. 2001. All rights reserved. SATURN(R) is a registered trademark of PMC-Sierra, Inc. PALADIN(TM), PALADIN-10(TM), PALADIN-15(TM) and PMC-Sierra(TM) are trademarks of PMC-Sierra, Inc. |
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