Icera makes bid for Smartphone market with ‘world’s smallest’ HSPA+ platform

The company plans to expand its presence in high speed cellular data technology by combining the Espresso platform with a radio interface layer for the Android operating system and full validated voice technology. "Icera has evolved quickly from its start up phase to being established as one of only two major vendors in the data intensive mobile broadband chipset market," said Stan Boland, pictured, president and ceo, Icera. "We are now taking the important step of applying this knowhow to the much larger Smartphone market. We're sure to produce the same results – transformation in user experience, much smaller form factors, new competitive cost points - and now with great voice quality too." The Espresso450 uses Icera's latest radio technology, the Livanto ICE9225 multi mode transceiver and Livanto ICE8065 soft baseband processor. Implemented in low power 65nm cmos technology, the ICE9225 radio is said to deliver an 'unprecedented' level of integration in a 6 x 6 package. The device comes in a 7 x 7 package and is the latest in a new generation of 40nm soft baseband chips which runs all of the modem physical layer, protocol stack, voice codecs, echo cancellation, noise reduction and equalisation in software.