The Navy's next-generation narrowband satellite communications system, MUOS, passed the final milestone before a full operational capability determination.

Spreadtrum Communications has introduced two new quad-core SoC platforms, the SC9830A, which supports 5-mode LTE, and the SC7731G, which supports WCDMA. Both solutions were designed with 28nm ...

Spreadtrum Communications has reached mass production of its first WCDMA baseband chipset, the SC7701B, according to the China-based IC design house.

Texas Instrument's Keystone SoC targets LTE/WCDMA base station applications but it needs high performance software to work. TI's latest software offering makes that happen more quickly. Figure 1 ...

UTRA-FDD is based on Wideband CDMA (WCDMA), is harmonized with other 3G WCDMA solutions, and is an FDD solution, therefore requiring paired frequency bands. WCDMA is the dominating air interface of 3G ...

Finally, from 2009, WCDMA HSPA uptake in Western and Eastern European countries will trigger a fast adoption of the technology worldwide. "In 2010, worldwide WCDMA HSPA cellular connections are ...

GSM will face a significant challenge to its position as the dominant mobile phone technology within six years as WCDMA gains in popularity, research published today has predicted. ABI Research ...

Europe now accounts for around one-third of the WCDMA users, according to the UMTS Forum. Many European operators launched their 3G networks in the second half of 2004, it said. More than 60 WCDMA ...

At the start of this year, more than 16 million people worldwide owned 3G phones based on the Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) standard, according to the UMTS Forum, an industry body.

Realising and implementing 3G can be achieved effectively through a series of incremental steps, building on the global track record of GSM - the world's most successful digital cellular technology.

Unfortunately, the advent of WCDMA and multi-carrier WCDMA has lead to information-bearing wavefor ms that often exhibit crest factors in excess of 10dB. Backing off a Class A or AB amplifier to ...

TechOnLine Publication Date: Dec. 12, 2001 A Larger Subset of Pseudo-OrthogonalSpreading Codes for WCDMA João da Silva Pereira , InstitutoPolitécnico de ...