Livanto® ICE8020
Livanto® ICE8020 is the world’s first, commercial, wireless soft modem. This advanced silicon device supports the highest performance HSDPA/HSUPA plus other advanced wireless standards. Specifically engineered to adapt and scale to support multiple, current and future wireless standards for next generation multimode wireless terminals and handsets, Livanto delivers an unparalleled level of flexibility.
Livanto is based on a totally new class of processor, created by Icera, called DXP® or Deep eXecution® Processor. With DXP providing full execution for all advanced cellular wireless physical layers, code-efficient protocol stack, voice codecs and drivers, Livanto delivers a complete wireless modem - all in software with no hardware acceleration. Since the physical layer is now supported entirely in software, compute resources can be dynamically switched and a variety of algorithms can be deployed to enhance performance in real network conditions.
This flexibility ensures Icera will track standards at a faster pace than any competitor and will accelerate the integration of multiple air interfaces onto the same chip at no extra silicon real estate or power expense.
Livanto has low power consumption, at or below that of any conventional baseband solution and delivers additional power-saving features, including dynamic voltage scaling and advanced clock gating. In addition, Livanto includes a sleep mode using ultra-low power timed wake-up resources to further extend battery life.
Livanto is built in an advanced, low-leakage 90nm CMOS process technology at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest independent foundry.
