Altair Semiconductor has unveiled the details of FourGee-3100, a LTE CAT-3 baseband processor that will operate with devices from mobile handsets, data cards and USB dongles to various handheld consumer electronics devices.
The FourGee-3100, which is reportedly bundled with a complete LTE L1 and protocol stack, is architected using Altair’s proprietary O2Psoftware-defined 4G processor.
Oded Melamed, co-founder and CEO of Altair Semiconductor, said: “The FourGee-3100 is a key element of our larger LTE product portfolio, which, as previously announced, will include both baseband and RF transceiver chips. By developing our product for use in both mobile handheld devices and data cards and dongles, we ensure Altair can meet all of the LTE needs of our current and potential customers.”
Altair’s FourGee-3100 features include – support of LTE category 3 throughputs, two 20MHz MIMO receive chains and one transmit chain, O2P signal processing engine, multi-band LTE RFIC lineup, 8x8mm BGA package, and L1 and protocol stack which includes PHY, MAC, RLC, PDCP, RRC and NAS layers.
The FourGee-3100, which will be available in Q409, will join Altair’s existing products – the FourGee2150 for mobile WiMAX and the FourGee4150 for XGP.
The company also said it will soon roll out its LTE product portfolio, including: FourGee-6150 – a MIMO RF transceiver that supports LTE-TDD and FourGee-6200 – a multi-band LTE-FDD MIMO transceiver that supports LTE bands.
