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To: E. Graphs who wrote (9156)	1/26/1998 8:34:00 AM
From: Paul Lee	Respond to of 25814

Here's the phone chip release: LSI Logic Delivers Industry's First Programmable Single-Chip GSM Baseband GSM Development System Provides Designers a Complete Development and Debugging Platform MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI), the world's leading developer of system-on-a-chip technology, today announced the immediate availability of the industry's first programmable single-chip GSM baseband solution. While current market solutions consist of multiple chips to cover the relevant baseband functions, LSI Logic's GSM processor is the first solution to integrate complete mixed-signal functions and all digital baseband logic (including the OakDSPCore(R) DSP and TinyRISC(TM) CPU cores) onto a single digital CMOS chip, lowering power consumption (baseband standby) to 1.5 mA. This unique programmable solution enables low-risk and rapid time-to-market by allowing designers to customize the design in a RAM-based single-chip architecture. This flexibility allows the integration and validation of specialized intellectual property and product features into GSM-based applications before volume production commences in a pin-and-package-compatible, ROM-based chip. "The key requirements of GSM wireless handset customers are addressed in this flexible, single- chip and feature-rich solution," said Giuseppe Staffaroni, vice president and general manager of the Communications Products division at LSI Logic. "When we announced our GSM architecture and the formation of our wireless communications business unit, we said we would 'extend the frontiers of ASIC technology in wireless communications.' The realization of our single-chip GSM baseband processor is the first major milestone in achieving this goal." The GSM baseband processor is the most flexible single-chip GSM solution on the market. The architecture, which combines LSI Logic's proven CoreWare design program with its G10(TM) 0.25-micron (Leff) process technology, allows for easy migration into future generations of silicon processes. For customers who require a complete GSM solution, the baseband processor is supported with a comprehensive set of deliverables -- including the DSP algorithms, RF design and related software drivers developed by LSI Logic, and the GSM protocol stack software from Optimay GmbH, Germany. The GSM baseband processor is also available in a GSM Development System, or GDS. The GDS is a powerful engineering and development environment that offers designers a complete GSM development and debugging platform. The development system allows access to all of the relevant system interfaces and offers an Ethernet interface for convenient software engineering. LSI Logic is currently engaged with customers utilizing the GSM baseband processor architecture. The standard single-chip GSM baseband processor is now available and priced at $15 in volume quantities. LSI Logic's Communications Products Division provides leading silicon solutions for customers in the networking, public networks, and wireless communications market places. In 1996, the Communications Products Division made up 28% of the company's revenue.