TOKYO-Renesas Technology Corp. said it has started shipping evaluation samples of a single-chip LSI it developed jointly with NTT DoCoMo Inc.
The LSI was developed for dual-mode mobile handsets that support W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS systems. The companies expect the LSI to promote worldwide use of FOMA and similar 3G handsets, said the companies. The LSI combines a dual baseband processor handling W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS systems with an SH-Mobile application processor from Renesas.
“I believe that use of this single-chip LSI will lower the cost of FOMA handsets while improving such basic performance features as length of standby time and will encourage the adoption of FOMA services on a global scale,” said Koji Chiba, managing director of DoCoMo’s customer equipment development department.
