Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: ARCchart
Published: November 2007
Product Code: R462-30Description With all the sophistication that characterizes today’s mobile phones, it’s easy to forget that the handset, at heart, is a radio! Traditionally, radios have been implemented entirely in hardware, with new waveforms added by integrating new hardware. However, jump forward three years and it is foreseeable that handsets sold into developed markets will need to support all of the following wireless standards: GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, HSDPA, LTE, GPS, mobile TV, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and UWB. Add WiMAX to the mix, as well as multi-mode handsets able to work across GSM and CDMA networks, and the number of waveforms to be supported is considerable.
Integrating additional radio hardware is impractical beyond a point because it increases the handset size, complexity and price. The attraction of Software Defined Radio (SDR) is its ability to support multiple waveforms by re-using the same hardware while changing its parameters in software. This has enormous benefits for handset size, cost, development cycle, upgrade and interoperability. SDR-enabled phones will also ease the challenges presented by limited spectrum availability and act the prefect device compliment to the network-agnostic approach of IMS.
Handset SDR is not a case of ‘if’ but ‘when’. This report presents a detailed analysis of all facets of SDR activity and forecasts the timelines and market for SDR in mobile phones.
Topics of coverage include:
- A history of SDR: the primary adopters and various initiatives
- The technologies that are likely to accelerate the adoption of SDR
- Emerging waveforms and their challenging requirements
- The commercial and business incentives pushing the handset industry towards SDR
- The technical challenges to be addressed before SDR can become mainstream
- Approaches being undertaken to address the technology and business challenges of SDR
- Analysis of the SDR patent landscape
- Discussion of the impact which SDR-enabled handsets will have on the value-chain players: from chip makers to OEMs to operators to regulators
- Forecast for the growth in SDR mobile phone shipments broken down by regions and device category
Table of Contents - A. SDR: CONCEPT, HISTORY AND FRAMEWORK
- A.1 Introduction
- A.2 What is SDR?
- Definition
- Software Defined Radio definition
- A.3 History of SDR
- Software Communications Architecture (SCA)
- Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS)
- SPEAKeasy
- Other major SDR initiatives
- A.4 Summary
- B. THE HANDSET: ARCHITECTURE AND VALUE CHAIN
- B.1 Functional blocks
- Antenna
- Introduction
- Mobile phone and antennas
- Internal antennas
- Microstrip antennas
- RF Front-end
- Introduction
- Mobile phone and the RF front-end
- Intermediate frequency filter
- RF power amplifier
- RF ADC and DAC
- Introduction
- Handset analogue and digital baseband functions
- DigRF
- Components of the baseband and application processors
- Baseband memory
- Case-Studies: Popular integrated baseband and application processors
- Codec
- Mobile phone and codecs
- Companding
- B.2 Mobile phone manufacturing cycle
- B.3 Summary
- C. EMERGING WAVEFORMS AND THEIR CHALLENGING REQUIREMENTS
- C.1 Mobile TV
- Digital Video Broadcast - Handheld (DVB-H)
- Integrating DVB-H components in the mobile phone
- MediaFLO
- Integrating MediaFLO components in the mobile phone
- Other Major Mobile TV Standards
- C.2 Long Term Evolution (LTE)
- The mobile phone and LTE
- C.3 Ultra-Wide Band (UWB)
- The mobile phones and UWB
- Case Study - Staccato Communications
- C.4 Global Positioning System (GPS)
- The mobile phone and GPS
- Company review - TI
- Company review - Global Locate
- C.5 WiMAX
- C.6 Conclusion
- D. SDR: BUSINESS CASE AND PREREQUISITES
- D.1 Technology and business drivers of SDR
- Multi-protocol compatibility
- Cost and space savings
- Efficient spectrum usage
- Support for emerging standards
- Mapping SDR in the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) framework
- Efficient supply chain and shorter time-to-market
- D.2 Technology and business limitations of SDR
- RF front-end trade-offs
- Antenna trade-offs
- Billing complications
- Security considerations
- Power consumption
- Incremental usage of hardware and software resources
- Commercial inertia
- Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
- Price
- Technology factors
- D.3 Conclusion
- E. CHANGES INTRODUCED BY SDR IN CONVENTIONAL RADIO ARCHITECTURE
- E.1 Changes in ADC/DAC
- E.2 Changes in PA section
- E.3 Changes in IF section
- Single chip transceiver from Nexus
- Single chip solution from Infineon
- Deep submicron semiconductor technology
- MEMS
- E.4 Changes in baseband
- Re-programmable baseband from Sandbridge
- Middleware
- E.5 Changes to the antenna
- Ethertronics Isolated Magnetic Dipole (IMD)
- Software defined antenna from TensorComm
- MLA from SkyCross
- Fractal based antenna from Fractus
- LTCC
- E.6 DSP, FPGA, ASIC - comparative analysis
- DSP
- FPGA
- ASIC
- Summary
- F. IMPACT ON THE KEY STAKEHOLDERS
- F.1 Design IP Vendors
- Overview
- Company reviews
- ARM
- Certicom
- Infineon
- PrismTech
- F.2 RF MEMS/DSP/ASIC/FPGA and other chip vendors
- Overview
- Company reviews
- Altera
- BitWave Semiconductor
- Freescale
- Innovative Wireless Technologies (IWT)
- Sandbridge Technologies
- Texas Instruments (TI)
- Xilinx
- F.3 OEMs
- Overview
- Company reviews
- Alcatel-Lucent (ALU)
- Motorola
- Nokia
- OEMs from the APAC region
- picoChip
- Vanu
- F.4 EMS providers
- Overview
- Outlook
- Company review
- Lyrtech
- F.5 Air interface stakeholders
- Introduction and overview
- Company review
- Qualcomm
- F.6 Operators
- Overview
- F.7 Antenna specialists
- Overview
- Company reviews
- Antenova
- Sarantel
- F.8 Industry associations
- Overview
- Stakeholder overview
- E2R
- SDR Forum
- F.9 Regulators
- Overview
- Regulator reviews
- FCC
- Ofcom
- IDA-Singapore
- G. MARKET SIZE AND FORECASTS
- G.1 Methodology
- G.2 Handset SDR market size forecast
- Driver analysis
- Mobile TV
- GPS
- WiMAX
- SDR-enabled handsets and smartphones
- G.3 Regional Analysis
- Asia Pacific (APAC)
- Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
- North America (NA)
- Caribbean and Latin America (CA-LA)
- Regional summary
- H. KEY MARKETS AND PATENT ANALYSIS
- H.1 Readiness assessment of key national markets
- Australia
- Brazil
- China
- India
- Japan
- South Korea
- UK
- US
- H.2 Patent analysis
- Patent activity history
- Patent categories
- ADC/DAC
- Antenna
- Baseband block
- Dynamic configuration changes using the air interface
- Power amplifier and modem
- Processes and materials that facilitate SDR
- RF front-end
- SDR based business and technology innovations
- Testing and approval of SDR equipment
- Leading patent assignees
- Leading innovating countries
- I. APPENDICES
- I.1 IF filter
- I.2 RF power amplifier
- I.3 RF ADC and DAC
- I.4 Mobile phone memory types
- I.5 Mobile phone baseband ICs
- PNX5220
- ARM
- I.6 Companding methodology
- I.7 RF front-end design limitations
- I.8 Wheeler’s and Maxwell’s antenna equations
- I.9 Static and dynamic power dissipation
- I.10 ADC/DAC process enhancements
- I.11 Digital linearization techniques and vendor specific process enhancements in PA
- Digital linearization techniques
- Vendor initiatives
- I.12 Sirific Nexus HEDGE transceiver
- I.13 Sandblaster architecture
- I.14 IMD antenna from Ethertronics
- I.15 ractals
- I.16 E2R use cases
- Policy Management
- Self-Configuring Protocols
- Traffic Load Prediction and Balancing
- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
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