Picocom, the 5G Open RAN baseband semiconductor and software specialist, today announced that it has launched PC805, a new system-on-chip (SoC) optimised for 5G small cell Open RAN radio units (O-RUs). The highly integrated, small-footprint, low-power SoC is designed to ease the implementation of 5G NR/LTE small cell O-RUs to support a variety of deployment use cases. These include enterprise, industrial, neutral host and private networks.
RU with PC805 is greatly simplified and delivers a significantly reduced bill of materials compared to current designs. The SoC interfaces directly with O-DUs via Open Fronthaul (split 7.2) and supports seamless connections to RFICs with a standardised JESD204B high-speed serial interface. PC805 is shipped with a fully integrated O-RAN compliant Picocom 5G NR RU and M-plane software suite.
Peter Jarich, Head of GSMA Intelligence, noted,
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