Espresso® Reference Platforms
The Icera Espresso® reference platform provides manufacturers with everything they need to bring the highest performance mobile broadband devices to market quickly and cost-efficiently. The Espresso® reference platform, centred around the world’s first soft baseband modem from Icera, delivers the industry’s highest performance HSDPA/HSUPA solution, in an extremely small form factor, with a future-proof product and technology roadmap.
Based on Icera’s Livanto® soft baseband, CMOS RF and PMIC devices, the Espresso® reference platform offers:
- Industry leading HSDPA and HSUPA performance for the best mobile broadband experience
- 3GPP Type 3 Advanced Receivers with dual antenna Receive Diversity and equalizers for the highest speed data across the cell, optimized for urban areas with high levels of signal interference
- 2G/3G support (GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, HSDPA, HSUPA) and compressed mode handover between 2G and 3G networks
- Reference product with complete validation, network interoperability testing and GCF/PTCRB and operator certification to speed product development of new products
- Low power optimization
- Small form factors and space-saving packaging techniques for ever-smaller mobile devices
- Package of development and testing tools, Software Design Kit (SDK), host software support, drivers, reference PCB layout and component list to minimize time to market
