Joint venture bids to enable early adoption of LTE

Lime Microsystems and Blue Wonder Communications say that the reference platform will accelerate time to market for OEMs developing LTE systems. It is based on Lime Microsystems' integrated single chip rf transceiver, the LMS6002 and Blue Wonder's baseband solution. The LMS6002 is a multiband multistandard rf transceiver ic designed for femtocells and small cell basestations. The transceiver operates at frequencies between 375MHz and 4GHz and is suitable for 3G, WiMAX, and LTE standards. According to Lime, the transceiver can be digitally configured to operate in the full range of frequency bands, with 16 bandwidths up to 28MHz – removing the need for individual transceiver chips for each of the different bands. Blue Wonder's baseband solution is an LTE subsystem that can be integrated in SoC platforms. It is designed for low power consumption and Blue Wonder will provide an fpga based development system, which includes an interface to Lime's LMS6002 transceiver to allow all required interoperability tests. Lime's ceo, Ebrahim Bushehri (pictured), said that such cooperation was an essential first step towards designing end products that will use the LTE standard. He announced: "The combination of Lime's single chip rf transceiver and Blue Wonder's advanced baseband solution is the first of its kind and will allow early adopters to accelerate the time to market of LTE products." Blue Wonder's managing director, Dr Peter Mayer, added: "Lime's excellent rf transceiver will allow us not only to demonstrate our LTE solution but will also provide us with the required flexibility to address all aspects of the LTE standard. "Together with Lime we can provide a complete precertified LTE solution, which will dramatically reduce time to market for our customers."