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It is part of the mythology of Silicon Valley that its success owes a lot to the pioneering spirit that settled California. Britain’s tech trailblazers have a western frontier of their own in “Silicon Gorge,” a cluster of microchip firms around Bristol.

Go from Bath of England to Beijing University of Post & Telecommunication (BUPT) There are very long distances, however, as to the new developing company picoChip of Britain, this has been turned into a swiftest route to revitalize its research and development strength. Numerous famous foreign corporations from Intel to ARM, have already reached the close relation with many universities of China, and these universities usually all wish eagerly to obtain leading technology and apparatus of the front. A lot of miniature companies do not have such a act, however, one of less than 100 people's polykaryon DSP providers picoChip joined in herein last week. This company and BUPT have set up wireless communication and network laboratory, and began a miniature design centre of operation in Beijing shortly afterwards. This laboratory is absorbed in 4G technology, this technology includes the project in 802.16m, UMTS-LTE, and the advanced wireless scheme known as 4G FuTURE which China has by oneself. PicoChip finished some small-scale projects with BUPT before this, the unexpected and satisfied result impels this company to further strengthen their relation along this road. Some risk exist and IP it protects to be until China go on, research and develop, must pay close attention to and Doug Pulley, cheif technology officer of picoChip, claim all the time, he only sees positive side at present. PicoChip implants its technology in BUPT finally, so, it can regard as the learning tool of researchers and project university students. The advantage to picoChip will it get the feedback about dealing with different canonial frameworks. "We want to show: Our programmable technology is useful for any which you adopt to have line standard, and, we can only be absorbed in W-CDMA and WiMAX by ourselves, " Pulley talks about like this. Through the drib input of picoChip, BUPT has developed TD-SCDMA platform used for testing the cellular telephone. TD-SCDMA is a telecommunication standard used for 3G in the native country of China. In the near future, BUPT will begin to cooperate with customer of partial picoChip, by offer and used in the technology that the mobile phone will be testedding. "We want to make use of them to finish our offer the development item of enough manpower rapidlying. So, we begin to take here more development, in order to strengthen us in a software development that is engaged in of Palestine, " Pulley shows. PicoChip cooperates with other research institutions of China too, but the cooperative focal point there is MAC development which is for 802.16e. But Pulley thinks it is expanded that their company will be too great on the Off-The-Shelf academic relation. "There is regular and interdynamic the one on the senior level, so, research and develop deeply with several people, better than cultivating extensively, " He says. Up till now, most projects in China have already been at the development phase, but picoChip plans to carry on more fundamental research here in the near future. The design centre here will increase sharply to about 40-50 people by the end of next year, and this figure will account for about half of the project work groups of this company. "It is a difficult thing in a local development item of remote distance, the development level of the country is very important, so it is very important to look for these countries suitable to develop, "He says.

"All global future generation aerial interface standards are based on OFDMA technology with MIMO, and all IP. " PicoChip cheif technology officer Doug Pulley says: "Our cooperative programme will be directed against WiMAX, UMTS-LTE, 802.16m and UMB. We believe that realize the radio of software by multi-core digital signal processor platform of picoChip, will offer the realization scheme of the swift, high cost performance for these standards. "

It is strange that picoChip announces the wholly-owned constituent company Bick that sets up in China (Beijing) Technological limited company was open formally a few days ago, this company also claimed to reach and research and develop the cooperative agreement with Beijing University of Post & Telecommunication at the same time, launch research cooperation in the field of wireless air interface of the future generation together. Bick strange (Beijing) On the opening ceremony, the wireless SIGPROC signal processing and network laboratory of picoChip and Beijing University of Post & Telecommunication have been signed and further expanded in inner cooperative associations of domain such as the air interface of wireless communication of future generation,etc. Discuss, both sides will develop multiple critical technology of promoting wireless communication to develop forward in the following several years cooperatively hand in hand: Including IEEE802.16m, UMTS-LTE (long-term gradual progress) , mobile communication projects in future such as 4G,etc.. The signature of the new agreement will further widen picoChip and high-efficiency cooperation relation which Beijing University of Post & Telecommunication already carries on, wireless SIGPROC signal processing and network laboratory once utilized strong computational capability of picoChip chip and convenient developing instrument apt to use, utilize definite manpower to develop the commercial TD-SCDMA solution in a short period of time, and cooperate with picoChip Company to develop the commercial WiMAX base band solution. Both sides will launch cooperation in more technical fields in the future. In 2003, picoChip established the partnership relation with China's industry by way of establishing and uniting the development centre with the local cooperative partner, and opened the first Chinese office in Shenzhen in 2004, this office not merely promoted selling and technological holding capacity, and its accessory development laboratory has supported various localized engineering development activities, include directing against the system development activities of local standard and research project. And MIMO technological development OFDMA algorithm that active main parts of picoChip and cooperative partner of Beijing University of Post & Telecommunication will communicate for IP, in order to improve by a bandwidth capacity of wireless connections.

September of 2008, Bath of Britain: With the introduction of the high-performance picoArrayTM device of new, picoChip has further expanded its leading position in the field of large-scale polykaryon framework. PC202-10, PC203-10 and PC205-10 polykaryon digital signal processor (DSP) Can offer the handling capacity up to 262GIPS and 35GMACS. These leading in trade PC20x series main products can help the designer to realize the advanced function, make it adopt less devices when employed in advanced wireless basic Apparatus products isometry demand at the same time. Device series PC20xx-10 are based on the one the same as existing PC20x products, polykaryon picoArray framework already verified, but there are bigger processor arrays, keep the compatibility of whole code at the same time. Compared with traditional DSP, picoArray of picoChip already make and can offer the cost performance advantage of 40 times by the really independent benchmark test of the card, and high the absolute characteristics of 8 times. Improvement of PC20x-10 device characteristic, do not realize by increasing the clock speed or making use of semi-conductive Manufacturing technology to compress the width of process for preparing of the chip in these traditional ways. The scheme substituted is to utilize picoArray inner nuclear essence more, namely increase the quantity of the processing unit in the device, have risen to 273 from 248. This strategy has increased 8% of the memory capacity, thus has offered the design space of greater value-added function of realization to designer, go to create and its intact solution of strengthening. Because the clock rate is constant, the new device is that the complete code level is compatible; Can be operated on the new device series directly for the software that small some chips were written originally. The extra treatment excess of device series PC2xx-10 is primitive Apparatus manufacturers (OEM) Have offered the maximal flexibility while developing 3G, WiMAX and 4G products. For example, it is much more complicated the honeycomb base station of the sector can be realized with less chips; The home base station can increase new function or customer's function; The top products can be allocated and strengthened function,etc.. PC205-10 is a core of picoChip form chip WiMAX solution, it is that the industry can only offer real IO-MIMO (move a key of WiMAX to require) Scheme. PicoChip cheif technology officer and common creator Doug Pulley say: " PC20x-10 device series represented a key step in gradual progress routes of products that picoChip offers. Series PC20x are persons who lead of the market, offer abundant handling capacity for most application that we can see at present, meanwhile, we observe too some customers pass the genuine one's own ability of giving play to series PC20x-10, expanding the boundry innovated in its design constantly. A attractive force of our polykaryon framework lies in it can determine the array scale conveniently according to the need for employing, adopt the little array of the low price, or a little greater array comes to obtain more high characteristic. " Series PC20x were put out in 2006, its high-performance price broke the barrier of $1/GMAC comparing with the time when applying to The wireless technology of the future generation. Among other applications, the industrywide standard that home base station solution and WiMAX PHY substantially as already leading as trades realize. 3 basic variant editions of this series are suitable for the intact software radio system, have already offered WiMAX (16d and 16e) now , WCDMA (including HSDPA, but staging to HSUPA) Reference design. It is every film of 31 dollars that this series buy the trigger price in batches, all PC20x-10 devices adopt the language programming of canonial ANSI C, still furnished with one and encrypt the engine, and is used in the optimization coprocessor of FFT/IFFT, Viterbi and turbo demoder. PicoChip is a leading polykaryon DSP supplier, offer ultra-performance in having dominant cost of the competition that is checked very much. PicoChip offers the powerful platform, to develop the corresponding products for the market such as WiMAX, WCDMA, LTE, TD-SCDMA and 4G of global wireless Communication that is emerging constantly. Ranges of product of picoChip are from home base station access point to the slight honeycomb and much more complicated great honeycomb of signal carrier of the sector.

Bick belong to strange company (picoChip Design Limited) Announced a few days ago: The majestic communication skill Limited Company of letter of Beijing is in its latest McWiLL base station design, choose PC203 of Bick strange company as the base band processor. McWiLL (the wireless information local loop of multi-carrier) Access by movement broadband which China researches and develops independently (BWA) The standard, has specially optimized to the network overlapping of the special wide area, McWiLL will be disposed for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. McWiLL has combined SCDMA ' Synchronous code division multiple access) Traditional application and newly-increased moving about in search of pasture broadband in the narrowband pronunciation. It with CS-OFDMA ' Combined OFDMA and CDMA advantage at the same time) Based on the adaptive modulation, adopt dynamic channel allocation, Smart antennas, beam shaping with interference offset technology, come on, realize, expand coverage and raise throughput. In the new design, PC203 device of the strange company of two Bick has substituted 9 TI C6XXX advanced digital signal processors (DSP) usually used And the large-scale programmable gate array (FPGA) of two scenes ,Have reduced the cost of bill of materials (BOM) greatly And power consumption. Majestic as the letter what has been developed does not have line standard, all research and development is finished in Beijing by the majestic inside of the letter. "The letter is majestic to play an extremely important role, this is that Bick's strange architecture advantage surmounts a successful example of traditional DSP, have indicated the characteristic of the company products can support any standard, " Strange company's common founder and concurrently chief technological officer Doug Pulley Bick say. "This agreement has expanded Bick's strange support to China's wireless technological development. The letter is majestic can develop so delicate products within short time, it is enough to prove our architecture and maturing status of the tool. " "Bick's strange picoArray products are powerful, can solve the extremely urgent SIGPROC signal processing demand of the wireless system of the future generation effectively, "The majestic communication executive vice president Dr. Wen Bin of letter adds. "Adopting this high-efficient framework has indicated too in the design we are in offering directions such as more succinct design, price with high competitiveness,etc., take an important step. " McWiLL supports honeycomb size pronunciation and ideal choice of data communication oversize in city and countryside. 1 the intersection of McWiLL and base station each the intersection of sector and throughput for 15Mbps, use the intersection of 5MHz and bandwidth can cover 1-3 with at the intersection of 1800Mhz and frequency band in urban environment; On 400MHz frequency band, the coverage can be expanded to 20 kilometer to 60 kilometer. Measure to reveal to the customer end apparatus which uses a 1MHz subcarrier, when the migration velocity reaches 120 kilometers per hour, throughput of offering ' Download and upload) The speed is up to 3Mbps. McWiLL great exhibition elegance at Olympic Games of Beijing in 2008, will adopt McWiLL in Olympic yacht events and Olympic racing boat events held in Shunyi of Beijing which city Qingdao hold of seashore when the time comes. Main application broadcasts directly the message switching of the video of the competition on the bank. McWiLL has already passed the video, sound and data transmission on-the-spot test that have carried on in Guangzhou, Nanning, Beijing and Qingdao. Integrated digital signal processing (DSP) of picoArray device Cell array, its ultra-performance has already been proved in the applied high strength calculation task of advanced wireless SIGPROC signal processing, can be suitable for the basic framework, suit subscriber station's applied products at present. PicoArray has offered the powerful many kinds of products developing platforms for market of global wireless communication emerging constantly, the application includes WiMAX, LTE and 4G,etc.. Bick strange limited company has a design centre in Beijing, exactly TD-SCDMA develops the reference design too.

On WiMAX World European exhibition which picoChip Company held in Vienna a few days ago, have won the best award (Best of WiMAX World Awards) that WiMAX World awards in 2007 " best chip design award " of China , " best trade innovative award " And " the best trade chooses the award " Three Grand Prix, the resulting reward accounts for half of the total rewards. It sets up purpose of reward these to be to dispose leading person in the field, carry on definite. "When our company releases the newest WiMAX products, gain three Grand Prix in the best award that the European exhibition awards of WiMAX World in 2007, do not have still honoured thing for picoChip Company. We, as the home base station (femtocell) And the leading person of sector standard WiMAX reference design, can be approved by the masses by this way, make people feel more joyful. We feel particularly proud about obtaining elected by representative participating in the conference ' the best trade choose the award \ 's, this is Grand Prix that this conference sets up newly. " PicoChip chief executive officer and concurrently president Guillaume d' Eyssautier say. WiMAX World European conference and exhibition (WiMAX World Europe Conference & Expo) Held in Vienna on the 29th - the 31st of May, and the nominations of these rewards are collected from the exhibiter of the conference and in the sponsor publicly. After receiving nearly 40 nominations, the independent evaluation group elects the outstanding one in WiMAX field while having award range in 5. " the best trade chooses the award " It is this Best of WiMAX World Awards new newly-increased reward. This reward is evaluated with exhibition delegation and 13 company representatives selected together by WiMAX World European conference, in order to cite the company making the most remarkable contribution in the field of WiMAX in the current year. As the host of WiMAX World convention and exhibition, the activity, publishing company Trendsmedia president Eliot Weinman and xchange series magazine publisher Mike Saxby of the subordinate of Yankee group have participated in 6 Assessment of the reward. PicoChip has gained 3 rewards among them with its WiMAX home base station technology: Used particularly in PC205 processor that the home base station is designed to obtain " The best chip design award " ; The home base station concept based on WiMAX is got " The best trade innovative award " ; And get by home base station reference design of its WiMAX " The best trade chooses the award " . "WiMAX World Award has offered a platform for encouraging the inner innovation of WiMAX field. The winner that ' the best trade chooses the award \ ' will not merely pass the screening of the expert appraisal, also get sufficient ballots of counterparts. PicoChip Company can be proud of obtaining such honor, " Saxby says: "Success of WiMAX needs depending on the constant innovation like company such as picoChip, it will obtain the repayment of the market to do it in this way, and will gain the approval of its affiliated trade. " "Three Grand Prix that picoChip gained have affirmed fully this company in WiMAX trade leader's status, "Weinman says: "This is that we set up the trade to choose the first year of the award, we are very glad to award picoChip Company this reward too. Obviously, picoChip has obtained the respect of the whole trade, we are expecting picoChip will obtain better achievement in the future. " On this WiMAX World European convention and exhibition, picoChip has released its trade canonial award-winning products publicly for the first time - -WiMAX base station reference design of the latest edition. The new edition PC8532 WiMAX platform is the only base station reference design which supports WiMAX Wave 2 and IO-MIMO, and can to complicated for many the intersection of sector and great cellular type interstation of group of carrier to carry on the cutting out amount from home the intersection of base station and access point. PC8532 has already been used in WiMAX and authorize testing, and terminal with the third party to demonstrate maximum interoperability.

Only time for 4 months until Chinese set up office and development centre, picoChip has already been announced with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Research institute of the computing technique (ICT) Establish partnership relation, accelerate the wimax development and arrangement in China together. Ins of Computing Technology,Academia Sinica will use WiMAX reference designs and PC102 processors of picoChip, both sides will help the Chinese operator to develop and dispose WiMAX system in coordination. The establishment of this partnership relation is announced at the Hi-Tech trade wireless broadband meeting on forum of China and Britain in Beijing. The loyal doctor of chief of research office Lee of information network of Ins of Computing Technology,Academia Sinica points out: " The cooperation with Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences has displayed picoChip firm commitment and its global leading position in WiMAX to China once again. We firmly believe, WiMAX research and product development of the Chinese customer helpful to we and we greatly of this cooperative agreement. " PicoChip common creator and chief executive officer Peter Claydon gentleman emphasize: " Rely on our growth plan in the Chinese market, we are very glad Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences has approved of our advantage in the whole world WiMAX technology, and already promised to establish long-term cooperation relation with us. Professional research technology and erudite trade knowledge and empirical perfect combination of picoChip technology and WiMAX of Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences will contribute to satisfying China greatly Demand of the operator. " China is one of the most important wireless markets in the world, through cooperating closely with strong local cooperative partner and government organ, picoChip is strengthening its commitments to Chinese market and concern constantly. Last September, this company claimed to set up the development centre of Shenzhen on the technological forum of news report of Sino-British information. This centre has already had one to support here such as system development and research project to design the active and self-contained development laboratory. PicoChip has offered and can solve cost, development time and flexibility,etc. solution of subject problem that the wireless system of the future generation faces. The dealing with device PC102 of this company has offered the global and first-class cost performance advantage, has already subdued numerous dominant companies which has developed the wireless basic apparatus in its design. It accords with intact UMTS (including HSDPA) that this company or an only family offers And WiMAX (16d, but the staging is to 16e) Company of canonial reference design.