Trio collaborate on reference phones
LONDON Communications Consultants Worldwide (CCww) and its joint venture operation in Taiwan, CCasia, is working with Silicon Laboratories to create innovative handset reference designs.
CCww (Bournemouth, U.K.) is a developer of wireless protocol stack solutions while CCasia, a joint venture between CCww and Winity Technology set up in November, provides wireless system design and integration. Togther with Silicon Laboratories they have completed the integration of a GSM/GPRS reference design for licensing to handset manufacturers.
The reference design is configurable for use in a range of handsets from entry-level GSM phones to high-end feature and smart phones. At the core of the design is Silicon Laboratories' AeroFONE single-chip phone, combining the conventionally separate digital and analog base-band and RF transceiver into a single-chip design. CCww's resource-efficient GSM/GPRS stack has been ported and validated by the partners to create a complete and configurable reference design.
One configuration of this design provides a low-end GSM phone that provides rapid time-to-market coupled with competitive low cost in manufacture. At the other end of the scale, CCasia can provide a complete feature-phone design to include: graphical MMI, memory file-system, 2 M-pixel camera, MP3 player, VoIP, Bluetooth, GPS, IM and more to create a high-specification feature phone.
CCasia has experience in field trials using more than 50 networks world-wide as well as optimization of handset production.