PMC-Sierra Enhances its DSPs for 3G Wireless Base Stations

PMC-Sierra announced enhancements to the PALADIN family of digitally-based processors used in wireless base transceiver stations (BTS). The enhanced PALADIN architecture incorporates new features to simplify the design of 3G wireless base stations for WCDMA and CDMA2000. Notably, the updated PALADIN architecture now supports 1xEV-DO, the newest generation of CDMA2000 technology. In Asia, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO is already being used for videoconferencing on wireless handsets.



PMC-Sierra said its third generation PALADIN architecture utilizes digital pre-distortion (DPD) technology to improve power efficiencies by more than 50% over traditional analog feed-forward solutions. http://www.pmc-sierra.com