Third generation (3G) technology is on the horizon paving the way to new applications and services such as high speed Internet access, games, video conferencing and high quality music as well as traditional voice. The market is ready to adopt the 3G W-CDMA technology, but the lack of commercial terminals is holding back industry growth and putting heavy pressure on market players.

The W-CDMA technology and the 3GPP standard put a barrier for introducing commercial terminals to the marketplace. Somewhat contradictory requirements to support high data rates of 384 kbps with multi-mode functionality of UMTS/GSM/GPRS on one hand, without compromising on power consumption and cost on the other, make implementing W-CDMA baseband processors a challenging task.

Modem-Art’s W-CDMA programmable baseband processor provides the missing link. It is an integrated chip-set coupled with embedded software that handles the communications protocols required by single mode 3G W-CDMA (UMTS) terminals as well as multimode UMTS + GSM/GPRS terminals. Modem-Art’s baseband processor is built on proprietary core technology - the Programmable Modem Engine (PME) - a very powerful physical layer processor optimized for W-CDMA.