Broadcom develops HSUPA chip for 3G handsets

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Broadcom Corporation has started sampling a single-chip HSPA (high-speed packet access) processor to selected customers.

The BCM21551 chip incorporates key 3G cellular and mobile technologies in a low power, single 65-nm CMOS die.

Dual ARM11 processors provide open OS support. The chip provides full stereo music capabilities for headset and stereo speakers, and an integrated 5-band graphic equalizer and digital mixing capabilities.

The chip also features an HSUPA 3G baseband, multi-band RF transceiver, Bluetooth 2.1 with enhanced data rate (EDR) technology, FM radio receiver and FM radio transmitter.

It provides multimedia processing, up to 5 Megapixels camera support and 30 frame per second video with “TV Out”. HSUPA, HSDPA, WCDMA and EDGE cellular protocols are also supported.

The chip has a MIPI serial interfaces for the LCD and image sensor and the analog PHY required for the 480Mbits/second USB2.0 applications that enable the rapid transfer of multimedia files to and from the handset.

Phones with the chip are expected to be on sale in the first half of 2009.