Percello to demo 16-way femtocell chip

The PRC6500 is, which offers the capacity and speed required for enterprise-grade applications. PRC6500, the second product in Percello's Aquilo chip family, supports 16 users and delivers evolved high speed packet access (HSPA+) data rates of 21.6-Mbit/s downstream and 5.7-Mbit/s upstream, with a cell range of 2,000 meters optimized for outdoor applications. It is pin-compatible with PRC6000 the eight-user HSPA+ residential device.

The PRC6500 is compliant with 3GPP HNB specs. It integrates an HSPA+ modem, a powerful MIPS processor, 3GPP L2 hardware accelerators, IP-SEC accelerators, embedded secured platform capabilities, a timing and synchronization mechanism, 2G/3G cognitive radio capabilities and peripherals such as embedded USIM I/F.

"We are entering to a new era where small base stations are going to play a key role in the evolution of new and existing cellular networks. The PRC6500 chipset enables carriers to deploy a second layer network for high speed HSPA+ data rates with very low capex," said Yoav Volloch, vice president of product management at Percello, in a statement. "If you'd like to have a 32- or 64-user offering, you can connect two or four PRC6500s in a cascade," Volloch added.

Aquilo architecture enables UMTS NodeB and RNC functionality to run on a single die. The family of chips contains MIPS24Kc and its peripherals as well as femtocell L1 engine (FLE), which includes an HSPA+ modem and embedded RF I/F.

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