Trend analysis of wireless chip development
There are its endogenous laws in new technical development, The wireless technical prosperity is because of people to the free pursuit. Freedom is innate needs of people like surviving. As people find the electromagnetic wave can help to get rid of the free transmit message of constraint of the cable, the desire of chasing freedom and primitive lets wireless Communication become more and more active, the cable can only be abdicated in the sky the sovereignty becomes the lonely underground worker. 3G, UWB, WLAN, GPS and digital television since the Er most early telegram, radio station develop, wireless technical development lets the transmissive application of information be becoming more extensive, bring an increasingly many brand-new experience to people. Wireless technology undoubtedly becomes the focal point of domain development of whole communication, and the focal point of Communication chip development is concentrated in the field of wireless Communication naturally.
Develop the source that the radio frequency is The wireless signal in MTT-S IMS sentence of coming back, it is a wireless foundation that develops too. Wireless radio frequency and market of microwave transmission are mushroom as it is employed extensively that wireless and technical, only market scale for 2006 first half of the years has already been close to 20 billion dollars. For the previous period, the international microwave conference (IEEE MTT-S IMS) on the 29th that the reporter has the honor to participate in and holds in San Francisco ,As annual radio frequency and microwave field highest seminar, the reporter has touched new achievement and new trend developed in wireless Communication at short range.
As the annual trade gala, this conference has become the stage where every large manufacturer competed for the new product, numerous novel unique powerful new product declare wireless flourishing development of field publicly show every large advanced scientific and technological capability of manufacturer. From these advanced products, the whole trend which we can develop by rough experiencing the Communication device, namely: The integrated level is higher, micromation, more steady, higher speed, energy consumption are lower and operation is more simple and more convenient. How to settle the integration of 3G and wireless network function well to become the new problem that the radio frequency manufacturer faces, the radio frequency of bimodulus of compatible 3G and wireless broadband receives and dispatches the new force that the products will become the market. Stronger and stronger with increase and mobile equipment function of the chip integrated level, under the intersection of chip and the intersection of volume and increasingly little trend, function module of radio frequency and other function module integrate to together gradually, become the new transmitting terminal functional unit. The source as wireless information, it is a indispensable assembly of all wireless products to make a start, under the requirements of high integration density, low energy consumption and products micromation, the mobile phone radio frequency (even a lot of radio frequencies) It is a overhanging technological innovation of this conference that function and controlling circuit are integrated on a packaged chip. Next development may digital control until clock circuit continue and radio frequency make a start, integrate to together, thus narrow the size, control the cost. At this conference, even enterprises propose integrating chance-over circuit of aerial and control module in the mobile phone deeply. With make technological to promote, radio frequency chip package volume already overall to carry out the transition from 130nm to 90nm, the function that and the single packaged chip realizes is increasing constantly. The size while the function increases of the mobile equipment is expected to shrink 20%~30% more on the existing foundation in the future. Future wireless product development will be paid attention to more and more intelligently. With user's requirement for product function being intelligent to design, become the intersection of Communication and the intersection of product development and essential constituent element already more and more. The intellectuality of the Apparatus of driving on the basis of sensor, analog digital converter and CMOS power amplifier etc. is designed and can be found everywhere at the conference, low cost, low power consumption, high capacity, short time delay characteristic let intelligent to design as the most beautiful a line of scenery at the conference. More overhanging, the multi-purposed single solution products based on single Apparatus can give play to the function of the products on the maximum intensity, have very high realistic meanings in saving the development cost, raising the commonability of the products.
Move the multimedia forum and canvass the mobile phone for August 10 of the following 2006 years, move the technological development forum of the mobile phone of multimedia technology alliance to hold in Beijing, chain relevant enterprises and institutions of industry such as domestic and foreign famous operator, chip manufacturer, terminal manufacturer,etc. have participated in the forum. At the meeting, from every profession and trade experts and scholars and professional put forward one's own view to the intersection of future and demand and trend that Mobile developed one after another. "The mobile phone has already become high equipment that rely on degree of people of information-intensive society, and the development of mobile phone can not break away from application, the future mobile phone should be supported from the simple pronunciation to the business scope with extensive wideband multimedia. " Research institute president Yang Ze Min summarize the telecommunications of Information Industry Department like this while mentioning the development trend of the mobile phone. The multinet roams ability, sensor system, ultra distance land network, mobile phone TV and support to technology such as bluetooth, amuses business and mobile phone in the hardware, software, opening, and Communication between being in the future man-machine Mobile develops the factor that must consider. What the movable termination is developed first trend is that the terminal wireless technology is multimode. The movable termination needs to integrate many kinds of wireless technology to support various movement data traffic, include integrated the intersection of mobile phone and the intersection of TV and such technology even, how guarantee various business of mobile phone smooth to switch over it is in the future mobile phone that develop subject problem that face in different rule. The second trend is that the terminal memory capacity is larger and larger. , various applied demands in order to meet various multimedia business' demands, including working, it is terminal memory capacity in including in if you can't store in inner on different fields, need by promotions greater. The third trend is to employ the diversification, this requires handling capacity of multimedia, calculation and storage capacity to all carry on greater improvement. Terminal become the recreation center, including built-in wireless music, mobile phone TV, networking the game, chat and blog function, but lack unitary media player and business adapter at present, this needs business to adapt ability to further improve. Meanwhile, also need to unify the terminal here and connecting relevant interface of technology in the development process, help to protect electronic device such as movable termination, PC, camera and carry on better information sharing.
While moving mobile phone forum of multimedia this time, the star of China parts the east executive vice president's solution of canvassing TV chip of the mobile phone of the musical sound a little. In terms of chip, mobile phone TV employ than ring tones and lens, MP3, MP4 integrate get mobile phone to be complicated. First of all, the mobile phone TV introduces the new Communication system in the mobile phone, not only a simple integrated multimedia application; Secondly, it takes lower power consumption to realize and watch the TV on the mobile phone for a long time; Moreover, need to support Off-The-Shelf many kinds of standards to coexist, the mobile phone chip solution needs the support functionality with multiple systems. The present common scheme is to make up the mobile phone TV module with two chips, through the exclusive chip received signal of the mobile phone TV, modulate the analog signal into a digital signal, then deal with the chip through transmitting the application to the multimedia of protocol layer, make use of business processing chip to carry on source decoding finally. This kind of method chip is bulky and with high costs, the most important thing is the power consumption is too big, must develop towards two even a chip scheme. Two key elements that the chip develops are the low power consumption and support the multiple systems, should accomplish low power consumption, not merely need to make a fuss about electric-saving of the chip, need paying close attention to the power management of different levels, system and the power supervisor modes of the chip, device. Chip built-in flexible, programming processor and DSP and processor technology that can be reconstructed are how the chip support a key to the multiple systems, need to guarantee to support different signal channel, source decoding in the middle of the chip, can be realizing Millisecondly and switching over. By the look of present technology, the signal channel has decoded and followed source decoding and can be integrated inside a chip, the technical development of the semiconductor can realize low power consumption, leave YF part outside the digital chip at the same time, have turned into the solutions of two chips.
The products are raw in order to comply with the trend forever that several big manufacturers air one's own views, so that had a say to the chip development of Communication most is the manufacturer which is in leading position of the trade all the time. What kind of scenery for this reason, we have interviewed several representative enterprises in the trade, future wireless development trend development will appear in the eyes of the manufacturer. As the intersection of industry and master wireless the intersection of chip and supplier, ADI radio frequency and wireless banking department develop a director Doug Grant to think The wireless chip has two main development trends. First, reduce the low-end " Exceed the low cost " The chip set cost of the mobile phone, the purpose is to develop the basic mobile phone with pronunciation and short message function and black-and-white display screen as low-cost as possible, but some mobile phone manufacturers find these chip sets can not provide a means for turning to the advanced function mobile phone and series of products. The second development trend is developing and improving the flexibility and chip set to strengthen function, can improve the attractive force of the mobile phone products in order to offer the advantages as many as possible, but the existing problem is that all functions need very high power consumption, thus will shorten the battery life-span of the mobile phone. So, the development trend of the chip set of the advanced function reduces the power consumption. Development trend and miscellaneous semi-conductive trade of The wireless device do not have too great difference: Reduce the power consumption, increase (and adjust) The function, lowering costs, and in order to reduce the material cost and reduce the up integration of the number of elements. There are different places a bit that is that a general trade development trend is to improve the speed - -Because frequency band use for most wireless system already, so it and general processor develop, require difference, in order to raise speed (a lot of the intersection of processor and already careful to know, get the intersection of multi-processor and promising than at a high speed the intersection of signal processor and system system manufacturer) for every product . Reach the mobile phone chip respect, the low-cost GSM/GPRS cell-phone form chip and capsulating the solution to already present only specifically. All " The single chip " The solution still needs external flashing memory and power amplifier, some of solutions adopt the external transceiver IC in order to reach the optimum performance, some also need external power management IC. 3G has already accorded with all 3G canonial chip sets on the market as the future focus of mobile phone development. Most UMTS chip sets are all directed against the advanced market, and TD-SCDMA chip set can be used in the mobile phone of all grade. The difficult problem of 3G is to find the appropriate function Apparatus in order to fully utilize 3G network to improve the advantage of the data rate, lower costs in order to make 3G technology used in the mobile phone of every grade at the same time. And the difficult problem of WiMAX is to choose this suitable technical best market segments, and develop the suitable chip sets of the characteristic and rational compromise of power consumption.
TI mainly nowadays offers The wireless technical key device, and construct various solutions in order to meet the future demand. Get most advanced, the intersection of function and abundant 3G Apparatus from traditional taking pronunciation as the core cellular telephone, TI has introduced extensive semiconductor and software solution, meets hand-held terminal manufacturers, moves the requirement of operator and application software developer. TI wireless production distribution and Zhang Lei, manager of market, take " The integrated level is higher, the power consumption and cost are lower " Have summarized the newest trend that Communication chip field researches and develops in the future. The original intention of DRP technological development of TI is in order to meet these requirements: Cost of lower solution and simplifying the bill of materials, higher system performance, longer battery life-span, smaller device size can realize the mobile equipment with more exquisite appearance, the ones that can integrate many kinds of radio components and can be put into making at once if market condition permitting in high flexibility hand in the key newly (turn-key) Type solution can wireless to be simplify design of designer and test job notably. As to hand-held terminal manufacturers, DRP technology can narrow the board-level space notably, and further lengthen the life time of the battery. Compared with the situation that traditional RF designs, DRP technology can save 50% power consumption, the intersection of bare chip and area and the intersection of system and board-level space,etc.. The integrated device contributing to lowering costs has characteristics such as capsulating, integrated memorizer subsystem and integrated power management device,etc. integratively. So the integrated solution, with cooperating with the single remote application processor scheme of the external modem to compare and have greater advantages, for example OMAPV2230 base band of TI can offer support for GSM/GPRS/EDGE and WCDMA at the same time, and in terms of a lot of telephones on of market at present, the above-mentioned base band standard remains each other independently. As the leading provider of chip of the mobile phone, Zhang Lei thinks the market of mobile phone will keep the fast development in two major fields, every one for cost getting ampler cellular telephone markets low-costs ultra of 30 dollar,among them can reduce an important developing direction by power consumption by a wide margin with at the time of cost, it can save area and silicon chip area of the circuit board notably. Another point of growth is a market of walkie music / multimedia cellular telephone, various consumption and employ in enterprises such as mobile televisions, 3D be had a look around game, E-mail, audio frequency and video attachment, Web and downloading and video conference,etc. last cellular telephone market new development power. Qualcomm begins to set foot in the chip development field of Communication on a large scale too at present as 3G canonial main patent holder. Research and develop the 3G mobile chip development of the focal point as to the Communication chip in the future, more representative to the clear experience to Qualcomm of the heart of the standard. The trend that the high pass thinks Communication chip field researches and develops mainly concentrates on the bipunctate. First, the chip of future generation will have stronger multimedia function, more sharp picture, more high definition. The function of the chip will support more sharp VGA display screen (VGA will be 4 times of QVGA definition now) ,Will also support the camera of 6 million picture element. Second, the chip is highly integrated. Qualcomm has been making great efforts to create the new movement function, and merge multiple functions on a kind of apparatus, thus push The wireless technology of the future generation to the new height constantly in the whole world. The mobile phone chip that we offered the customer is intact chip, all azimuthal solutions, all functions such as including the modem, multimedia function, radio frequency function, receiving the function, transmission function, energy consumption management are all integrated on a chip. Support the increasingly high multimedia function with the Communication chip, this evolution has put forward some new questions and challenges for the chip of the mobile phone too. For example, how to realize low electric consumption is a very important question. Qualcomm has three measures while meeting the challenge of this one: First, change software hardware, can reduce the consumption of the energy more the intersection of multimedia and the intersection of function and direct implantation chip; Second, importance of power management; Third, reduce the technology of electrical consumption, reach 65 nanometers more from 130 nanometer to 90 nanometer such as the manufacture process. On April 5, 2006, Qualcomm introduced 65 nanometers of MSM6800 chip set sample wafers directed against CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A network ahead of time, treatment technology can highly support integrating, low power consumption, more small and more exquisite with abundant function apparatus.
In processor of the mobile phone, " Scorpion " of Qualcomm Move the microprocessor integrated Mobile Station Modem (MSM) The solution, compared with characteristic the power consumption is very outstanding, make the mobile phone set handling capacity compare favourably with PC. This kind of microprocessor still possesses accurate and complicated microarchitecture and advanced power management and designing technique of the circuit, the multimedia characteristic used for increasing newly but this is that one of advanced mobile devices of future generation is required importantly.
Research and development (R&D) of the conclusion Communication device Will develop constantly with the changes of technical progress and market demand, but it is to develop the Communication device briefly that future research and development has already been far above far, developer needs to unite with mobile phone manufacturers in order to confirm and offer the essential characteristic of the appropriate function the device, and it get help to make the components and parts cooperate with the work correctly that manufacturer need the mobile phone. This means software and hardware reference design will become more and more important. Meanwhile, the developer also needs to design the respect to have very strong skills in architecture and design, simulation IC design and RF of the digital processor. The statistics show, Shenzhen has already become the capital of the global mobile phone, our country has become the products production base of world Communication too, but our foundation researches and develops competence and still far lags behind the world. How make use of Off-The-Shelf production scale advantage, help, improve our own basic device, it researches and develops competence to be to need us go on question that think thoroughly, it is only a makeshift to take the place of workers after all, pulse that only holds science and technology could be better for the growing up strong and sturdy and opening the good recipe of information industry.