picoChip, a start-up based in Bath, England is developing a WiMAX PHY library to run on its "picoArray" processor. The company said greater software flexibility is needed to implement rapidly evolving WiMax standards, including IEEE 802.16d (next generation fixed), 802.16e (mobility) or HPI, the Korean broadband wireless standard. It picoArray offers support for TDD or FDD, increased channel bandwidths, larger FFT sizes, sub-channelization or new FEC-modes (convolutional turbo-code). It also enables efficient use of multiple antennas at high sample rates, critically important for advanced algorithms such as adaptive antennas, space-time-coding (STC) and MIMO. The system is suited to both basestations and high-end subscriber stations. http://www.picoChip.com
- picoChip was founded in September 2000 and is backed by both Pond Venture Partners and Atlas Venture.
