Altair and ANADIGICS partnered to drive LTE technology development

4G-semiconductor developer Altair is now integrating ANADIGICS power amplifiers (PAs) into its FourGee LTE USB ExpressCard UE (User Equipment). Based on Altair's FourGee-3100/6200 baseband/RFIC LTE chipset, the ExpressCard is an ideal test and interoperability testing (IOT) UE platform for system vendors and carriers involved in the development, trialing and deployment of LTE systems.

The FourGee LTE USB ExpressCard UE is also a reference design to develop commercial products based on the FourGee family of LTE chips. ANADIGICS power amplifiers are recognized for their high linearity and high efficiency in small packages.

The key features of Altair's FourGee LTE USB ExpressCard UE are,

Category 3 speeds of 100Mbps download and 50Mbps upload
Power consumption within the USB specification power budget (<2.5W)
ExpressCard34 form factor with a USB2.0 HS host interface
Available in select FDD/TDD bands in the range of 700M-2700MHz
Full-featured, IOT tested LTE L1 and protocol stack

The FourGee-3100 is an LTE CAT-3 baseband processor, FourGee-6150 is a MIMO LTE RF transceiver that supports LTE-TDD, and FourGee-6200 is a multi-band LTE MIMO transceiver that covers all global FDD/TDD bands

"Altair's LTE work with ANADIGICS is a powerful extension of our existing and fruitful cooperation in the mobile WiMAX space," said Eran Eshed, Co-Founder and VP of Marketing and Business Development of Altair Semiconductor. "Our strategic relationship with ANADIGICS will continue to be valuable for both organizations as Altair develops new reference design products in support of additional RF bands."

"ANADIGICS is proud to play a role in the development of 4G solutions such as LTE. By working with leaders like Altair, not just to enable but to drive 4G and LTE adoption, we make it possible for operators to migrate their networks to new technologies that support the next generation of wireless applications," commented Greg White, senior vice president of RF Products at ANADIGICS, Inc. "Our collaboration with Altair emphasizes the importance of having innovative RF products that provide our partners and customers with industry leading solutions for advanced 3G and 4G applications. We are pleased to be providing LTE PAs that enable Altair's FourGee LTE USB ExpressCard UE to provide exceptional performance on data upload with low power consumption."

For more details visit www.anadigics.com, www.altair-semi.com