SANTA CLARA, California, and
ROSH HAAYIN, Israel, October 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
ASOCS Ltd, a silicon IP provider of software-defined radio (SDR)
solutions, and ARM®, the world's leading semiconductor IP supplier
(LSE: ARM; NASDAQ: ARMH), today announced a comprehensive reference
design for next-generation mobile infrastructure equipment.
The design is based on ARM Cortex®-A57 processors - ARM's highest
performing processor, designed for mobile and enterprise computing
applications - and ASOCS's Modem Processing Unit (MPU), a
real-time, reconfigurable platform that allows for the
implementation of a wide variety of communication standards.
As a result of this joint reference design, communication chip
makers are now able to develop custom chips for all types of base
stations, from small cells up to Cloud Radio Access Networks (Cloud
RANs), on ARM processors coupled with ASOCS' MPUs.
The solution will offer a commercially viable topology for Cloud
RAN, significantly decreasing cost and power compared to existing
approaches and solutions.
"Cloud RAN provides significant capital and operational savings
for operators by virtualizing baseband processing onto data
centers, yet general-purpose microprocessors are impractical
for handling the very high data rates required of 4G systems and
beyond," said Gilad Garon, CEO,
ASOCS. "Solutions based on the ARM/ASOCS reference design will
provide silicon designers a highly cost competitive solution while
strictly maintaining the full physical layer resources
virtualization, while offering the programmability and
upgradability of large scale Cloud RAN systems."
"Service providers want to deploy robust Cloud RAN
solutions without spending time tackling concerns about
underlying hardware and services," said Ian
Ferguson, vice president, Segment Marketing, ARM. "The
combination of the ARM Cortex-A57 processor with ASOCS's modem
processor units delivers a high-performance and cost-effective
Cloud RAN solution, which will
significantly improve the power-efficiency of Cloud
RAN networking equipment."
ASOCS' Chief Architect, Barak
Ullman, will present a paper entitled, "The ARM Cloud RAN
Architecture" at ARM TechCon 2013, which runs from October 29 - 31, 2013, in the Santa Clara Convention Center.
About ASOCS
ASOCS develops and licenses software-defined modems for mobile,
wireless and broadband communications based on its heterogeneous
Modem Processing Unit (MPU) and silicon IP, ModemX®, designed to
meet current and future modem requirements. ASOCS enables the
highest possible capacity baseband unit for the Cloud Radio Access
Network (C-RAN) as well as other wireless infrastructure cells,
from small to macro and beyond. ASOCS' Modem Programming Language
(MPL) is the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform
programming of the physical layers for a wide variety of
communication standards. ASOCS' MPL enables fast, easy development
of physical layer solutions, greatly improving total cost of
ownership (TCO) using standard C-language programming and function
libraries. For more information, visit
http://www.asocstech.com.
ModemX and CR2100 are registered
trademarks of ASOCS. Other names mentioned are owned by their
respective holders. This news release contains forward-looking
statements as defined in the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934
and is subject to the safe harbors created therein.
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SOURCE ASOCS Ltd and ARM
