TTPCom Ltd  has entered into a partnership with Silicon Laboratories to support the recently launched AeroFONET single chip cellular platform. Silicon Laboratories has licensed the TTPCom Cellular Baseband Engine (CBE) family of products including silicon intellectual property (IP), GSM/GPRS protocol software and applications. Silicon Labs' adoption of CBE means that handset manufacturers implementing the AeroFONE will benefit from compatibility with TTPCom's AJAR applications framework, and 'designed in' compatibility with TTPCom's protocol software. This will enable them to reuse existing software infrastructure and expertise to significantly reduce system cost, and to achieve rapid time to market for new handsets. The AeroFONE single chip phone integrates the digital and analogue baseband, quad band transceiver, power management unit and battery charging circuitry for a GSM/GPRS class 12 cellular phone in a monolithic CMOS IC.
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