picoChip's PC6530 single chip WiMAX femtocell reference design wins Best of WiMAX World EMEA 2008 Industry Innovation award
Live from WiMAX World EMEA 2008 – xchange magazine announced today that picoChip has been selected to receive the Best of WiMAX World EMEA 2008 Award for the PC6530 single chip WiMAX femtocell reference design in the Industry Innovation category. The annual awards recognize leaders in the development and deployment of WiMAX technologies. Nominations were open to exhibitors, sponsors and speakers of WiMAX World EMEA Conference and Expo, May 19-21, in Munich, Germany, and selected by a judging panel of experts from the WiMAX community.
picoChip received the Industry Innovation award on May 20 at a ceremony following the close of the WiMAX World expo floor. Eliot Weinman, conference co-chair and president of Trendsmedia, the events and publishing division of Yankee Group that produces WiMAX World, along with Mike Saxby, group publisher of xchange, presented the awards in six categories.
“xchange is pleased to acknowledge picoChip’s contributions to the development and promotion of WiMAX technology and services,” said Mike Saxby, group publisher of xchange. “The growth in the industry has been tremendous, as shown by picoChip’s achievement.”
Eliot Weinman, conference co-chair added, “On behalf of WiMAX World, I congratulate picoChip for winning this year’s WiMAX World EMEA Award in the Industry Innovation category. WiMAX World Awards winners truly represent the best and brightest WiMAX technology, services and network implementations in the world.”
"picoChip is delighted to have won this year’s Best of WiMAX World EMEA Award for Industry Innovation 2008. As the leader in femtocells and the industry-standard for WiMAX reference designs it is rewarding to be publicly acknowledged in this way for our single chip WiMAX femtocell platform,” said Guillaume d’Eyssautier, president and CEO at picoChip. “To be recognized as the winner in this category for the second year in a row is an extreme honor for picoChip. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the whole WiMAX team for this fantastic achievement.”
The picoChip PC6530 system reference design provides a complete software-defined implementation of the WiMAX IEEE 802.16e OFDMA basestation PHY and MAC for femtocell coverage. The design is completely software-based which allows rapid customization with customer IP, optimization of algorithms for enhanced performance or feedback into the design from deployment experience.
This enables customers to quickly and easily develop a final product based upon a series of standard deliverables.
The winners were selected by an independent judging panel, including Craig Mathias, principal, Farpoint Group; Will Strauss, principal analyst, Forward Concepts; Adlane Fellah, CEO and founder, Maravedis Inc.; Caroline Gabriel, lead research analyst, Rethink Research; Philip Marshall, vice president of enabling technologies, Yankee Group; and representatives from xchange and Trendsmedia.
picoChip is the only semiconductor company focussed on wireless infrastructure, and provides software-defined radio solutions to address the key challenges of cost, development time and flexibility for the next generation of wireless systems. The company’s multi-core processors deliver a world-beating price/performance combination. picoChip is the industry standard architecture for WiMAX basestations, and is the leading supplier for the new wave of femtocells (3G access points). picoChip technology is also being used to develop other 4G wireless protocols such as UMTS-LTE, 802.20 and TD-SCDMA.
For a complete list of winners, visit www.xchangemag.com/wimaxaward2008.
picoChip and their award will be featured in the July issue of xchange, as well as on the WiMAX World and xchange Web sites.
