London, United Kingdom – 19 March 2009 – 4M Wireless has licensed its PS100 Long-Term Evolution (LTE) protocol stack software to a fabless semiconductor developing a 4G multimode baseband chip for LTE handsets and devices. The 4M Wireless LTE protocol stack is compatible with legacy 2G/3G protocol stacks as well as WiMAX stacks. The fabless semiconductor company chose it based on its ability to meet stringent customer requirements.

In fact, the fabless semiconductor company expects to have a completely integrated 4G solution later this year. It also will incorporate the LTE protocol stack with its physical later to produce one of the world’s lowest-power and smallest silicon solutions while offering a complete 4G multimode reference design to consumer device manufacturers, according to 4M Wireless.

4M Wireless has been developing its PS100 LTE protocol stack since the start of the 3GPP Release 8 standardization process. The stack is already in use with companies developing LTE technology and is being tested with eNodeB vendors and conformance test equipment suppliers as well. The LTE stack is compliant to the Release 8 36.XXX series specifications from 3GPP and has been ported to a number of embedded platforms. The software is fully independent of operating system and hardware platforms, and it’s designed to have a low memory footprint and optimum processor utilization. To simplify integration and interoperability testing, the PS100 comes with a full set of test and debugging tools.