A strategic alliance between InterDigital and ASOCS Ltd. will develop a fully-integrated 2G and 3G modem solution for wireless products and chipsets development.
The two partners will integrate InterDigital’s SlimChip WCDMA modem IP core into ASOCS’ ModemX platform and R4 GSM/GPRS/EDGE solution. The resulting service can be embedded into wireless product platforms to expedite the release and rollouts of wireless communications products. It will also open up an upgrade path to HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, LTE, and other 4G technologies.
In addition, InterDigital and ASOCS will design another joint solution that will decrease development risk and speed up deliveries of the finished product to the market. This joint solution will support HSPA Category 10 (14.4 Mbps DL) and Category 6 (5.76 Mbps UL,) as well as GPRS/EGPRS multi-slot class 12.
The two partner companies will also offer a complete 3GPP Release 6 compliant 3G physical layer (with direct upgrade path to Release 7), Release 4 compliant 2G physical layer, and dual mode protocol stack implementation.
The InterDigital-ASOCS services target companies who want to open up new market opportunities while spending less time and money on developing new technologies, and customers who are integrating GSM/WCDMA into multi-mode design with LTE or TD-SCDMA networks.
According to Bill Miller, executive vice president of IP Sales and Services at Interdigital, companies always run risks when introducing new wireless products. Any slowdown or accident may ruin a company’s chances to penetrate new markets.
To minimize such risks, ASOCS and InterDigital based their joint solutions on proven technologies that are already in the market. Their services will improve the speed and efficiency of product rollout while also giving customers the opportunity to upgrade to 4G technologies in the future.
According to Gilad Garon, chief executive officer of ASOCS, the strategic alliance with InterDigital will help spread the Company’s ModemX technology throughout the mobile market. ASOCS’s technology has been displacing the DSP approach, especially since current low power designs are able to take full advantage of ModemX’s flexible software-programmable architecture.
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