Percello Debuts16-User Femtocell SOC

Israeli semiconductor company, Percello Ltd has reportedly introduced PRC6500, a 16-user Femtocell (News - Alert) SOC, designed for the enterprise and outdoor UMTS femtocells market.

 

PRC6500, the second chip of Percello's (News - Alert) Aquilo chips family, serves as the central processor in a standalone femtocell and serves as a sub-system element for GW system. It accommodates 16 users delivering evolved high speed packet access (HSPA+) data rates of 21.6Mbps and 5.7Mbps and extended cell range optimized for outdoor applications.

 

Yoav Volloch, vice president of Product Management at Percello said that, "As the first company to bring the most integrated SOC into this market, we are pleased again to be the technology leaders by introducing PRC6500, the first worldwide 16-user device. With the PRC6500, vendors can run a single product line that supports both the residential and enterprise markets."

 

He said that, the PRC6500 is the only product that enables low-cost and low-power simultaneous open and closed femtocell on a single radio. E said that a solution based on PRC6500 can allocate six dedicated channels for the closed part and 10 for the open part; 14.4Mbps will be allocated to the closed part and 7.2Mbps to the open.

 

PRC6500 uses the Ethernet connection to handle the backhaul traffic in case of standalone femtocell as well as in the GW case and integrates HSPA+ modem, a powerful MIPS processor, 3GPP L2 hardware accelerators, IP-SEC (News - Alert) accelerators, embedded secured platform capabilities, a timing and synchronization mechanism, 2G/3G cognitive radio capabilities and peripherals such as embedded USIM I/F.

 

"If you'd like to have a 32- or 64-user offering, you can connect two or four PRC6500s in cascade," Volloch added. "This is one of the fundamental features of Aquilo architecture."

 

Founded in 2007, Percello’s architecture combines programmable multi processing DSPs and dedicated HW accelerators (for monotonic functions). This approach is optimized for power consumption, cost reduction and risk minimization.

 

Percello SoC solutions include a CPU, dedicated UMTS L1 as well as embedded backhauling peripheral such as IP-SEC, NTP_PTP and secured platform elements.