“We have a vision for radios to follow the same path as microprocessors, which have moved from expensive pieces of technology to increasingly capable and cheap devices installed in everyday products,” said Bryan Donoghue, digital systems group leader. “By moving radios into the digital domain, we’ve put them on a path to dramatic improvements in cost, size and performance.”
Pizzicato is said to enable ‘truly flexible’ software defined radios that can change frequency, bandwidth or radio standard, allowing more dynamic use of the radio spectrum.
One potential use for Pizzicato is in 5G networks and Cambridge Consultants believes it could change the economics of massive MIMO dramatically and help to accelerate the deployment of 5G. It could find application in lower-cost IoT devices, allowing the digital radio to be copied between chip designs.
