Altair Semiconductor, a 4G chip company developing the world’s most advanced mobile semiconductors for handheld devices, and Aeroflex, the leading global provider of Long Term Evolution (LTE) test equipment, today announced a joint LTE collaboration.
Through the collaboration, Altair and Aeroflex will perform interoperability testing (IOT) to enable joint customer development and testing on a pre-tested and qualified User Equipment (UE) test setup. Following an intensive evaluation period Altair has ordered multiple 7100 LTE digital radio test sets from Aeroflex, with the first delivery in January 2010.
For several months, Altair and Aeroflex have collaborated on IOT of their respective products—Aeroflex’s 7100 digital radio test set, and Altair’s recently announced FourGee™ LTE USB ExpressCard UE. Altair’s LTE data card has also undergone extensive IOT with additional partners and vendors and is currently being used in various field activities.
Based on Aeroflex’s tried and tested RF and baseband technology, the 7100 Series digital radio test set is unique in its support of both RF parametric and protocol testing for LTE terminal devices. The 7100 Series simulates a network from the physical layer to the core network IP infrastructure. Focused on the R&D market—from components to handsets—the Aeroflex 7100 Series is a comprehensive test system for LTE mobile devices incorporated into a small footprint, single bench-top instrument.
Altair Semiconductor is the world’s leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G semiconductors. The company’s products provide device manufacturers integrating any 4G technology into their products with a highly power-optimized, robust and cost-effective solution. Altair’s comprehensive product portfolio includes baseband processors, multi-band RF transceivers for both FDD and TDD bands, and a range of reference hardware and product level protocol stack software. Based on a novel, proprietary Software Defined Radio (SDR) processor, codenamed “O2P™”, Altair’s products are the smallest and most highly power optimized in the industry, offering an unmatched combination of flexibility and performance.