Global 1, the Industry’s First Reconfigurable
RF Front End, Enables a Single Platform Design and Supports TDD-LTE
Networks
EDI CON 2014 – Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: PSMI),
founder of RF SOI (silicon on insulator) and pioneer of advanced RF
solutions, today announces the Greater China debut of UltraCMOS®
Global 1, the industry’s first reconfigurable RF front-end (RFFE)
system, at EDI CON 2014. By integrating all the components of the
RFFE on a single chip, UltraCMOS Global 1 delivers one platform
design – a single, global SKU – that operates in all regions
worldwide. The system includes the industry’s first LTE CMOS power
amplifier (PA) to meet the performance of gallium arsenide (GaAs)
technology. The UltraCMOS Global 1 PA offers a high-band PA path
that supports China’s recently licensed TDD-LTE technology
networks.
UltraCMOS Global 1 Is a Reconfigurable System
The rapidly growing LTE device market has put unprecedented
demands on the performance of the RFFE. To support more than 40
frequency bands and a more than 5,000-fold increase in the number
of possible operating states, a reconfigurable and tunable RFFE is
now an industry requirement. Peregrine’s UltraCMOS Global 1
provides easy-to-use digitally controlled adaptation across modes
and bands, high isolation to solve interoperability issues and
scalability to easily support higher band counts with low-loss
switching and tunability. This level of reconfigurability is
available exclusively on Peregrine’s UltraCMOS 10 technology
platform, an advanced CMOS process that uses RF SOI substrates and
delivers a 50-percent performance improvement over comparable
solutions. Global 1 is fabricated on this advanced-technology
platform
On a single chip, Global 1 integrates Peregrine’s established,
best-in-class RF switches and tuners seamlessly with a CMOS PA. The
UltraCMOS Global 1 RFFE system includes:
- 3-path MMMB PA, post-PA switch, antenna
switch and antenna tuner
- Support for envelope tracking
- Common RFFE MIPI interface
UltraCMOS Global 1 benefits the entire wireless ecosystem.
Platform providers and OEMs can accelerate their time to market by
creating a single platform design for global markets. Consumers can
enjoy longer battery life, better reception, faster data rates and
wider roaming range. Finally, wireless operators can reduce capital
investments in their network with improved RFFE performance,
resulting in better coverage and reductions in dropped calls.
The UltraCMOS Global 1 RFFE system will complete platform
integration in 2014 and will be in volume production in late
2015.
UltraCMOS Global 1 PA Delivers Several Performance
Advantages
Global 1 features the industry's first LTE CMOS PA with the same
raw performance as the leading GaAs PAs. Using a WCDMA (voice)
waveform at an ACLR (adjacent channel leakage ratio) of -38 dBc,
the performance of the UltraCMOS Global 1 PA approaches 50-percent
PAE (power-added efficiency). This is on par with the leading GaAs
PAs and exceeds the performance of other CMOS PAs by 10 percentage
points, which represents a 33-percent efficiency increase. Further,
the UltraCMOS Global 1 PA maintains GaAs-equivalent PAE for LTE
waveforms with varying resource-block allocations. This level of
performance is reached without enhancements from envelope tracking
or digital predistortion, which is often used when benchmarking
CMOS PAs with GaAs PAs.
“Peregrine Semiconductor’s UltraCMOS Global 1 PA is a market
disrupter that could hasten a transition of the PA front-end market
from GaAs-based to CMOS,” says Christopher Taylor, director of RF
and Wireless Components at Strategy Analytics. “In a demonstration
at Mobile World Congress 2014, Peregrine’s UltraCMOS Global 1 PA
apparently matched the performance of a leading-edge GaAs PA at all
power levels, and on top of this, Peregrine’s PA can offer more
flexibility through the integration capabilities of CMOS.”
UltraCMOS Global 1 Supports TDD-LTE Networks
China’s recently licensed TDD-LTE networks have increased demand
for bands in the 2.3 to 2.7 GHz frequency range. The UltraCMOS
Global 1 PA offers a high-band PA path that supports this frequency
range.
“Peregrine is committed to the Greater China market,” says Jim
Cable, CEO at Peregrine Semiconductor. “To better serve our
customers, we recently expanded our China office to include new lab
facilities and additional technical resources. Today, at EDI CON,
we introduce UltraCMOS Global 1 as a RFFE solution for TDD-LTE
network demands.”
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but are not limited to, our dependence on a limited number of
customers for a substantial portion of our revenues; intellectual
property risks; intense competition in our industry; our ability to
develop and introduce new and enhanced products on a timely basis
and achieve market acceptance of those products; consumer
acceptance of our customers’ products that incorporate our
solutions; our lack of long-term supply contracts and dependence on
limited sources of supply; and potential decreases in average
selling prices for our products.
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ABOUT PEREGRINE SEMICONDUCTOR
Peregrine Semiconductor (NASDAQ: PSMI), founder of RF SOI
(silicon on insulator), is a leading fabless provider of
high-performance, integrated RF solutions. Since 1988 Peregrine and
its founding team have been perfecting UltraCMOS® technology – a
patented, advanced form of SOI – to deliver the performance edge
needed to solve the RF market’s biggest challenges, such as
linearity. With products that deliver best-in-class performance and
monolithic integration, Peregrine is the trusted choice for market
leaders in automotive, broadband, industrial, Internet of Things,
military, mobile devices, smartphones, space, test-and-measurement
equipment and wireless infrastructure. Peregrine holds more than
170 filed and pending patents and has shipped more than 2 billion
UltraCMOS units. For more information, visit
http://www.psemi.com.
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