Our partners

Picochip's success is based on more than excellent products and the skills of our in-house team. We pursue an active policy of collaboration with leading third-party developers, suppliers of complementary semiconductor products and other technology leaders.

These partnerships cut across geographic as well as technical boundaries, helping us to maintain a global reach and perspective in our business.

Cambridge Consultants

For over 40 years Cambridge Consultants has enabled its clients to turn business opportunities into commercial successes, whether launching first-to-market products, entering new markets or expanding existing markets through the introduction of new technologies.

It develops breakthrough products, creates and licenses intellectual property, and provides business consultancy in technology critical issues for clients worldwide. With a team of over 200 engineers, scientists and consultants, in offices in Cambridge (UK) and Boston (USA), it is able to offer solutions across a diverse range of industries including healthcare, industrial and consumer products, automotive, transport, energy and wireless communications. More...

CCL discussion of the cost, ease of development and performance advantages of multi-core architectures

Case Study: Iridium gets an upgrade (using picoArray). The IET....

Plextek

Plextek provides electronic product design, supply and consultancy from the creation of ideas through to the manufacture of products.

They provide innovative wireless solutions across a range of business areas including defence, homeland security, automotive, medical and communications. Located near Cambridge in the high-tech 'Silicon Fen' business area, skills cover strategic consultancy, MMIC radio, DSP, digital design, embedded software, design for manufacture, industrial design and production test equipment. More...

Radisys

Radisys (NASDAQ: RSYS) is a leading provider of embedded wireless infrastructure solutions for telecom, aerospace, defense and public safety applications. Radisys' market-leading ATCA, IP Media Server and COM Express platforms coupled with world-renowned Trillium software, services and market expertise enable customers to bring high-value products and services to market faster with lower investment and risk. Radisys solutions are used in a wide variety of 3G & 4G / LTE mobile network applications including: Radio Access Networks (RAN) solutions from femtocells to picocells and macrocells, wireless core network applications, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and policy management; conferencing and media services including voice, video and data, as well as customized mobile network applications that support the aerospace, defense and public safety markets.

Roke Manor Research

Picochip customers now have access to design services from Roke Manor Research, one of the UK's leading commercial research, design and development laboratories.

Roke's expertise and products cover a wide variety of wireless technologies. As a Picochip development partner, this partnership provides best-in-class solutions for system developers. More...

Roke use Picochip to develop extended range Femtocell with 40,000 times area...

Systems4Silicon

Systems4Silicon provides technology and specialist design services to the wireless communications industry.

Focussing on signal processing for the air-interface and wireless physical layer (PHY), the company's expertise spans system concept evaluation through to partitioning, algorithm design and product development for volume manufacture. Experience, ranging from advanced research and standards setting through to production quality coding for advanced FPGAs and signal processors, provides Systems4Silicon's customers with intelligent solutions for today's performance, cost and time-to-market challenges. More...

Wintegra

Founded in January 2000, Wintegra is a fabless semiconductor and software company that enables communications companies to build the next generation of access networks.

Its WinPath access packet processor family offers best-in-class aspects of network processors, communications processors, communications peripherals, and ASICs, creating a new approach to protocol handling. Wintegra products have been shipping into production networks since 2002. Its customer list includes virtually all of the largest communications companies in the world. In July 2005, Wintegra announced its first profitable quarter. More...

WTI-BUPT

Wireless Technology Innovation Institute, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (WTI-BUPT), located in Beijing, China, is dedicated to the research in advanced wireless technologies.

WTI-BUPT has cooperation with domestic and international commercial companies such as China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom, Huawei, ZTE, Datang Group, Ericssion, Simens, etc. More...