TI claims its TCS3500 chipset delivers three times the data rate throughput of current GSM/GPRS devices, enabling it to support EDGE-enabled applications such as multimedia, gaming, camera functionality, and video.


TI's half-biz-card sized TCS3500 chipset, with optional modules

The chipset includes an OMAP850 processor integrated with a quad-band EDGE modem. It also includes a TWL3027, which integrates an analog baseband with power management and an audio codec, and the BRF6150 single-chip Bluetooth solution. Optional modules include the TGS5000 assisted GPS and the TNETW1230 WLAN chips.

The chipset also supports multiple third-party Java platforms, as well as OMAP processor applications from TI's OMAP Developer's Network.

The design is expected to sample in Q1, 2004, with volume available in Q4, 2004. It includes bill of materials, board design and layout, GSM/GPRS/EDGE protocol stack, and development tools.

Rick Kornfeld, vice president and general manager of TI's wireless chipset business, said, "By leveraging the proven success of predecessor OMAP730-based GSM/GPRS reference designs, we are able to offer our customers a complete smartphone reference design highly integrated with all the components required to build full-featured handsets based on the EDGE standard."

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