Re todays pre announcement. To me it is a non event. So to comply with the GAAP accounting rules some 885,000 in revenue at a margin of 74% ie software sales will be booked in next qtr. The money is in the bank. Better to do things right. This company is coming to the pad if it is not this q it is next q. Of note is todays ADI announcemnt. This is us and them and you know what 3G means?
--------------see my prior post from adi wepage a white paper from spectrum engineer. these will ready for real time at 10k per board at 50% margins order size 10k for buildout.
Spectrum is a microcap. It is going to have stops and starts before enough product hits the markets to accelerate the growth evenly or even algorithmnically. I took the opportunity today to add to my shares. Thank you very much. I never thought I would get this price at this point in the companies progress. All IMO but I did step up today with both hands. I care about where we will be when the big ins come to the bottom line. They will but if you have a time horizon of less than 6-12 months baring some jv or equity stake by a suitor, you are going to keep your eyes in front not at your feet. I know many are dissappointed at first I was then I remembered what I know and I was off to the market to see what I could find.
Regards
Norden
This is like getting a black eye. You get up dust yourself off and decide what you believe to be right. Some today decided that the exit sign was right. I opted for the enter door.
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New SoftCell Chip Set from Analog Devices Enables Smaller,More Powerful Base Stations for Wireless Systems
Development Represents Radical Shift in Radio Architecture
Achieves Increased Operator Flexibility, Wider Coverage and Enhanced Quality
of Service for Public Wireless Networks and Wireless Offices
NORWOOD, Mass., Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI) today announced the SoftCell(TM) Multicarrier Transceiver Chip set, which allows smaller, more powerful base stations to be optimized for cellular/PCS, Wireless Local Loop (WLL), Micro/Pico Cell, and Smart Antenna systems. SoftCell is a functionally complete end-to-end, IF-to-digital transceiver chip set that enables true "software radios" to be deployed for wireless infrastructure applications.
ADI's SoftCell chipset addresses key issues for wireless operators including the cost of coverage, flexibility and size, as well as quality of service. Base stations containing the SoftCell chip set will be easy to modify in terms of adding services, additional channels, and changing wireless standards incrementally. In effect, operators will have the ability to use and move between any air interface standard (e.g., GSM, PHS, D-AMPS), deploy a higher number of channels and offer frequency plans with greater efficiency. The new architecture also eliminates redundant channel radios for both transmitters and receivers.
The SoftCell chip set is optimized for four RF carrier channels and is easily expandable. The solution enables equipment manufacturers to create highly scalable multicarrier, multi-mode base stations at a fraction of the cost of traditional multi-channel base stations. Implementing a single 4-channel receiver with SoftCell results in a 36 percent savings, with the cost per channel savings increasing dramatically for higher channel designs. For example, operators can realize a 2:1, or 60 percent savings, when implementing the SoftCell solution in a 10-carrier base station.
"At Analog Devices, we are committed to developing leading-edge silicon solutions to help the wireless industry create smaller, yet more powerful base stations in order to quickly expand the global wireless infrastructure," said Thomas Gratzek, Product Line Director for Analog Devices' Digital Radio Group. "The SoftCell chip set brings us significantly closer to reaching this goal, and positions us as a leading provider of next-generation infrastructure technology for third-generation wireless systems."
The decrease in size and cost savings associated with SoftCell means base stations can be deployed in higher numbers and in tighter locations. The result is better coverage, better quality, and fewer busy signals for users. The deployment capability also makes the SoftCell chip set well-suited for wireless office applications. In addition, the "software radio" technology implemented in the chip set enables new applications such as Smart Antenna or phased-array antenna services that enable power efficiencies and cost savings, and small "picocell" installations for additional coverage capacity and in-building wireless systems.
The SoftCell chip set consists of ADI's AD6644 14-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC), AD6624 quad digital receive signal processor, AD9754 TxDAC(R) 14-bit digital-to-analog converter and AD6622 quad digital transmit signal processor. The solution leverages the benefits of digital signal processors to enable channel equalization, error correction and decoding with greater flexibility and efficiencies. This new chip set complements ADI's TigerSHARC(TM) digital signal processor (DSP) engine as an optimal option, also in development.
The TigerSHARC DSP is a ground breaking processor optimized for communications applications capable of performing 2 billion 16-bit multiply/accumulates per second at 250 MHz. Additionally, the TigerSHARC is unique in its ability to support 8-, 16-, and 32-bit word sizes on a single chip. Modulation/demodulation, channel encode/decoding, and other radio functions can be multiplexed to support multiple carriers in a single DSP.
SoftCell complements ADI's recently introduced AD6600 diversity receiver chip set; the AD6600 addresses applications where a multicarrier architecture is still not feasible but allows direct IF sampling of signals at frequencies up to 250 MHz. Configured with the appropriate digital receiver signal processor, the AD6600 can address a variety of air interface standards, including GSM Macrocell.
The AD6644 will be available for general sampling in April with production quantities available by the end of 1999. The AD6622 is sampling now with production slated for June '99. The AD6624 is an extension of ADI's popular AD6620 single-channel RSP, which may be used for prototype developments while awaiting samples available in the Fall of 99. The AD9754 TxDAC has just been released, with parts available from stock. For more information about SoftCell chip set components, visit analog.com Infolink: ad6644.
About Analog Devices
With fiscal 1998 sales of $1.23 billion, Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) is a leading manufacturer of precision high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal processing applications. Headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, the company employs approximately 7,200 people worldwide and has manufacturing facilities in Massachusetts, California, North Carolina, Ireland, the Philippines and Taiwan.
SoftCell is a trademark of Analog Devices, Inc.
TxDAC and SHARC are registered trademarks of Analog Devices, Inc.
Analog Devices' SoftCell(TM) Technology Backgrounder
Classic base station architectures require a complete transceiver for every RF carrier processed (from 4 to 80 channels for digital and analog systems respectively). These radios must be multiplied for diversity. It is easy to see why base station electronics consume so much space, power, and cost. The beauty of a multi-carrier software radio is the elimination of redundant radios in favor of a single, high-performance radio per antenna, where each RF carrier is processed in the digital domain. Deployment of true software radios has been limited by the performance of analog-to-digital converters (ADC) which must digitize the enormous dynamic range demanded in a spectrum composed of multiple carriers, blockers, and adjacent channel interference.
Multi-carrier transmitters have similar challenges to meet the performance demands of the newest air interface specifications. Digital-to-analog converters (DAC) and multi-carrier-amplifiers (MCPA) must preserve the spectrum of several digitally generated carriers without corruption or spurious signal generation in adjacent channels. The AD9754 is a 14-bit DAC optimized to accurately convert multiple carriers to a single IF frequency. The AD9754 is the latest in ADI's TxDAC(R) family of high-performance converters.
About The SoftCell Multi-Carrier Chip Set
The heart of ADI's SoftCell chip set is the AD6644, a 14-bit, 80-MSPS ADC that provides up to 100 dB of dynamic range and 77 dB signal-to-noise ratio. This provides the receiver performance needed to implement a multi-carrier digitizing radio for many applications. Shifting the channel tuning, filtering, and demodulation to the digital domain allows the flexibility to support different air interface standards, number of channels, and frequency plans with a single radio design.
Following the ADC, a digital receive signal processor (RSP) performs the channel tuning, filtering, and decimation required to provide baseband I and Q signals to a digital Signal Processor (DSP). The AD6624 is an 80 MSPS Quad Digital RSP being developed to support GSM, IS136, and other narrow-band standards. The AD6624's four channels are independently programmable to change air interface characteristics on demand. It is a simple matter to add AD6624s in parallel for additional channel capacity. The AD6624 can also be configured to support EDGE extensions of GSM and IS136.
The AD6622 is a four channel Digital Transmit Signal Processor that takes baseband I and Q inputs from a DSP and provides all the signal processing functions required to drive the AD9754 DAC. Each independent channel can be programmed to provide the desired channel filtering for most air interface standards. The AD6622 supports IS95 and WBCDMA standards and can be daisy chained to combine an arbitrary number of channels onto a single 18-bit digital output.
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