InterDigital to Highlight Technology Solutions for 3G Developers
Oct 12, 2000 09:20 AM ET
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Business Wire
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BARCELONA, Spain, Oct 12, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- InterDigital Communications Corporation (Nasdaq:IDCC), a leading developer of advanced wireless technology, said today that it can make 3G technology and product design easier and faster.
John Kaewell, InterDigital's Senior Vice President of Advanced Product Development, will give a speech at UMTS Congress 2000 on Friday, October 13th in Barcelona, Spain outlining the challenges that 3G technology developers face and will describe InterDigital's unique solutions.
Also at the conference, the Company is unveiling details of its 3G air interface technology and product developments as announced yesterday. InterDigital has been developing 3G air interface technology for the last two years, building upon its twenty-years of experience in CDMA and TDMA system design.
Commenting on the technical and design issues facing 3G engineers worldwide, Mr. Kaewell stated, "The 3G System On a Chip (SoC) developer is confronted with many significant technical challenges. For example, 3G devices need to handle a wide range of data rates without compromising voice quality. Also, the computation requirements are 10 times greater than in 2G. To add to the complexity of the task, the W-CDMA standard is evolving, which means that the SoC design must be flexible."
"In order to drive design and achieve results, developers need a mechanism that allows for changes to many of these parameters at any stage in the design process. Our experience as a developer of complex ASICs, combined with our pioneering work in TDMA and CDMA technology development, has put us in a strong position to develop attractive, highly efficient SoC solutions for the 3G market. Equally important, we have implemented a new way of designing and transferring technologies in order to handle the potential changes and variations of the 3G standard."
Working with a number of software tools from the U.S. and the U.K., InterDigital employs an advanced method of testing its SoC solutions. Both the software and hardware are tested and verified as though they were operating within a full system in a real environment.
"As changes are required, because of evolving standards or customer changes to the technical requirements of the wireless product, our developers can modify designs in a simulated environment to test effects on traffic, spectral efficiency and load. Only when it is completely proven, does the design take shape as an ASIC, manufactured by a chip producer," Mr. Kaewell concluded.
InterDigital has a long heritage as a developer of digital wireless technologies and currently holds over 800 patents and patent applications worldwide in both TDMA and CDMA technologies.
As an active participant in the standards process, InterDigital has contributed IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) to the 3G standards effort and is working on the development of both FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) and TDD (Time Division Duplex) W-CDMA technologies compliant to the 3G standard. The Company is currently working with Nokia on the development of TDD technology.
Technical Note
InterDigital believes that data growth will outstrip voice growth as the wireless market grows. Because of the availability of unpaired radio bands and their suitability for data transmission, the Company believes that TDD (Time Division Duplex) technology will be a critical feature of 3G.
TDD is highly suited to asymmetrical needs such as requesting information and downloading from the Internet, where in one direction there is a limited bandwidth requirement and in the other much greater bandwidth is needed. FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) is being designed to handle both voice and data utilizing symetric, paired spectrum.
This press release contains forward-looking statements reflecting InterDigital's current beliefs and expectations as to its positioning in the 3G market and the attractiveness of TDD technology in 3G. Actual outcomes could materially differ from those expressed in any such forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors.
These factors include, but are not limited to: the ability to attract and retain key engineering personnel, the ability to develop and, where necessary, acquire critical technology cores in a timely manner for use in 3G product offerings, competition from other technologies or from other companies developing the same technologies, the continued receipt of licensing revenue to fund development activities, the ability to secure necessary development and marketing partnerships, restrictions in availability of radio spectrum, as well as other factors listed in the Company's SEC filings, including without limitation the Company's 10-K Annual Report and its most recent 10-Q.
InterDigital undertakes no duty to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
CONTACT: InterDigital Communications Corporation Susan Sutton, 610/878-7800 e-mail: susan.sutton@interdigital.com or Janet Point, 610/878-7800 e-mail: janet.point@interdigital.com
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