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mimoOn GmbH has announced that company has recently released an LTE (News - Alert) protocol stack (mi!SmallCellSTACK), which can be used in Broadcom’s dual-mode small cell family of SoCs. According to the company, mi!SmallCellStack is a product that works with any chipset and operating system.

With this, Small Cell product developers can now rely on the experienced team of mimoOn engineers. These engineets have created products that are used by numerous people. To make the small cell development much easier, the company also provides other products such as mi!SmallCellSPECTRUM, mi!SmallCellSON and mi!SmallCellVeriPHY.

mi!SmallCellSPECTRUM is an advanced scheduler and mi!SmallCellVeriPHY helps users in validating small cell features. The company has announced that it will be displaying product demonstrations at the Mobile World Congress (News - Alert) in Barcelona from 25-28 February, 2013. It will also be holding various meetings about the products during this time.

mi!SmallCellVeriPHY makes use of a modular architecture and it helps users to adapt easily to specific system modules. This allows the users to adjust the required features to their needs and the software is also compliant with 3GPP Release 8.

According to Brian Meads, VP Marketing of mimoOn, “The stability of Broadcom’s BRCM617xx Series of devices was excellent – mimoOn engineers were able to bring up our mi!SmallCellSTACK to first call within 4 weeks. This says a lot about the quality of the products both teams are delivering. Customers will be able to bring out Small Cell products in the shortest time possible.”

Recently, the company announced that it was using all of its mi!SmallCell products to support Texas Instruments' (News - Alert) wireless SoCs, the TCI6636.




Edited by Rich Steeves