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August 18, 2006
'Altera and Elektrobit joined forces to provide a clear time-to-market advantage for OEMs designing remote radio heads for WiMAX, 3GPP and 3GPP2 systems,' said Arun Iyengar, senior director of Altera's communications business unit. 'Established wireless infrastructure and radio module developers as well as new market entrants can now apply the latest OBSAI specification to their products.'
The Stratix II GX devices included in each kit fuse the industry's fastest and highest-density FPGA architecture with up to 20 full-duplex, high- performance, low-power, multi-gigabit transceivers. The Nios II family of embedded processors currently consists of three processor cores that implement a common instruction set architecture, each optimized for a specific price/performance point, and are all supported by the same software tool chain. The RP3-01 specification describes data and control requirements between the base station (BTS) baseband and remote radio heads. It also includes all the operational, administrative, maintenance and performance (OAM&P) related design elements.
Elektrobit is a partner in Altera's ecosystem serving systems OEMs in the wireless industry. Committed to providing maximum value, Altera and its partners offer reference designs and IP for digital radio, for example, crest factor reduction, digital predistortion, digital down conversion and digital up conversion. Altera also offers baseband solutions for WCDMA, HSDPA, HSUPA and WiMAX. Two OBSAI RP3-01 development kits will be available in Q3 2006. For more information go to: www.altera.com/m-elk-obsai.pdf.
More Information:
Kauko Väinämö
Elektrobit Group Plc.
Tel. +358 40-3443567
Ford Kanzler
Altera Corporation
Tel. +44 408-544-6397
About OBSAI
OBSAI is an open base station initiative aimed at specifying and certifying interfaces between various functions within the base station. The RP3 plane details the relevant control interfaces between a remote RF unit and the BTS. Visit www.obsai.org for more details.
About Elektrobit
Elektrobit's goal is to become a world leading embedded software and hardware company in selected wireless and automotive environments. The businesses are arranged under three business segments. The Wireless Communications Solutions segment encompasses the Mobile Terminal Solutions and the Radio Network Solutions business units providing R&D services, 3G smart phone reference design products and IP radio base station modules to telecommunications vendors. The Automotive Software segment encompasses the Automotive Software business unit providing in-car software products and R&D services for the automotive industry. The Test and Automation segment consists of the Network Test, the System Test and the Production Solutions business units providing testing, material handling and process automation tools and equipment for the electronics industry and teleoperators. Elektrobit employs some 1900 professionals in 15 countries. The Group's net sales for the year 2005 totalled eur 212.5 million. Elektrobit Group Plc. is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.
August 18, 2006
Print this releaseAltera and Elektrobit Offer First OBSAI RP3-01 Development Kits for Wireless Base Station Designs
Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) and Elektrobit Group Plc. (OMX: EBG1V) have announced the availability of the industry's first development kits for designing applications in compliance with the Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) Reference Point 3-01 (RP3-01) specification for remote RF heads. The kits include a Stratix® II GX FPGA development board and Nios® II embedded processor core from Altera, Elektrobit's advanced RP3-01 IP cores, as well as all the necessary design software for simulating system configuration and control behavior. Leveraging the kits for OBSAI-compliant wireless base station development will result in cost saving and significantly reduced design time.'Altera and Elektrobit joined forces to provide a clear time-to-market advantage for OEMs designing remote radio heads for WiMAX, 3GPP and 3GPP2 systems,' said Arun Iyengar, senior director of Altera's communications business unit. 'Established wireless infrastructure and radio module developers as well as new market entrants can now apply the latest OBSAI specification to their products.'
The Stratix II GX devices included in each kit fuse the industry's fastest and highest-density FPGA architecture with up to 20 full-duplex, high- performance, low-power, multi-gigabit transceivers. The Nios II family of embedded processors currently consists of three processor cores that implement a common instruction set architecture, each optimized for a specific price/performance point, and are all supported by the same software tool chain. The RP3-01 specification describes data and control requirements between the base station (BTS) baseband and remote radio heads. It also includes all the operational, administrative, maintenance and performance (OAM&P) related design elements.
Elektrobit is a partner in Altera's ecosystem serving systems OEMs in the wireless industry. Committed to providing maximum value, Altera and its partners offer reference designs and IP for digital radio, for example, crest factor reduction, digital predistortion, digital down conversion and digital up conversion. Altera also offers baseband solutions for WCDMA, HSDPA, HSUPA and WiMAX. Two OBSAI RP3-01 development kits will be available in Q3 2006. For more information go to: www.altera.com/m-elk-obsai.pdf.
More Information:
Kauko Väinämö
Elektrobit Group Plc.
Tel. +358 40-3443567
Ford Kanzler
Altera Corporation
Tel. +44 408-544-6397
About OBSAI
OBSAI is an open base station initiative aimed at specifying and certifying interfaces between various functions within the base station. The RP3 plane details the relevant control interfaces between a remote RF unit and the BTS. Visit www.obsai.org for more details.
About Elektrobit
Elektrobit's goal is to become a world leading embedded software and hardware company in selected wireless and automotive environments. The businesses are arranged under three business segments. The Wireless Communications Solutions segment encompasses the Mobile Terminal Solutions and the Radio Network Solutions business units providing R&D services, 3G smart phone reference design products and IP radio base station modules to telecommunications vendors. The Automotive Software segment encompasses the Automotive Software business unit providing in-car software products and R&D services for the automotive industry. The Test and Automation segment consists of the Network Test, the System Test and the Production Solutions business units providing testing, material handling and process automation tools and equipment for the electronics industry and teleoperators. Elektrobit employs some 1900 professionals in 15 countries. The Group's net sales for the year 2005 totalled eur 212.5 million. Elektrobit Group Plc. is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.