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To: The Verve who wrote (6855)	8/4/2000 7:55:51 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 34857

Verve, I thought you Q-ASIC guys had an understanding of what development, testing, debugging, verifying and integrating means as well as well as what a lot of vans cruising a test site means?? However, maybe not a feeling for power consumption for the same functions when integrated on the same 0.1um chip compared to driving external buses (not vans) with some thousand times larger loads at high frequencies. But Texas newest generation DSP+ARMs are surely great, optimised for a high MIPS and low voltage,low power, something they have a lot of experience and even more market and investments in, including mixed digital- analog designs. But the vans packed with debugging equipment are also interesting, to ensure that integration doesn't have to be redone too many times, really expensive when deliveries and time schedules slip with huge existing, waiting markets, not like building one puny network, one at a time. Ilmarinen

To: The Verve who wrote (6855)	8/4/2000 2:05:28 PM
From: Allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

There are NO WCDMA handsets ready for commercialization. The handsets being used in test networks aren't ready for realtime use, as they have a peculiar thing that looks like a Ford Econoline van they're mounted inside. (Consumers are interested in portability, so a van mounted to a phone isn't going to sell in sufficient quantities) Carrying a mobile and lots of other equipment around in a van is standard operating procedure for verifying both the functioning of the mobile and the functioning of the network. Specifically, one of the preeminent wireless gurus, Dr Jacobs of Qualcomm says ... Listening to Dr. Jacobs talk about W-CDMA is a lot like listening to Steve Jobs talk about Microsoft back in the early days of the Macintosh.