Europe : Comsys Communication and Signal Processing, a leader in baseband solutions for emerging cellular markets, unveils UEware(TM), an integrated baseband solution that supports UMTS and EDGE. The solution is aimed at chipset vendors and devie manufacturers and offers accelerated time to market for new multimode 2.5G and 3G mobile devices.

The UEware multimode baseband solution supports UMTS voice and data, GSM voice, E/GPRS multi-slot Class 12, Type II multimode, Dual Transfer Mode (DTM) and future HSDPA. It combines low resource consumption and flexible operation with outstanding receiver performance and offers easy integration with any UMTS platform and protocol stack. Its scalable architecture and standard interfaces reduce R&D cost and time to market for chipset vendors and device manufacturers.

Because of the heavy infrastructure investment required, UMTS connectivity is still limited to certain areas. Device manufacturers offering UEware-based handsets will be able to deliver a higher quality of service to their end users, by also enabling them to use existing EDGE infrastructure, with high speed data services at up to 384 Kbps for video, audio and voice applications.

Elkana Ben-Sinai, Comsys CEO commented, "UEware-based chipsets will enable silicon designers to address the emerging trend towards multimode connectivity by supporting seamless communication across 2.5G and 3G networks. Chipset vendors can be confident that UEware will deliver a proven baseband solution for UMTS/EDGE/GPRS and GSM connectivity, reducing their cost and time to market while increasing performance over multimode connections."

About Comsys

Comsys Communication and Signal Processing Ltd. provides a complete licensable baseband solution for EDGE, GPRS, GSM and UMTS. Comsys and its technology partners offer integrated baseband system IP solutions including the complete physical layer and protocol stack (L1/2/3) and underlying system hardware. These solutions have already been ported onto multiple DSP platforms.