Applications

• Overview
• Handsets
• Femtocells
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Handsets

Today's consumers in both the developed AND developing world demand better coverage. Handsets are expected to provide seamless operation which often implies support for multiple protocols and multiple frequency bands.

With over 1.2 billion handsets expected to be sold in 2008, the market opportunity is tremendous and device vendors are working hard to protect and expand their market share.

Whether the target device is a Smartphone (with market share forecast to grow at 30% year over year) or mid-tier feature phone, OEMs must identify architectures and components which enable them to meet their cost and performance goals.

The existing trends toward more integration are resulting in more complex SoCs that are being challenged to meet OEMs price and performance requirements.

BitWave's Programmable RF Platform, the Softransceiver RFIC can meet that need with a reconfigurable RFIC and software applications suite that can provide the key to new programmable radio architectures.