About Picocom
Picocom is a fabless semiconductor company that designs baseband chips and carrier-grade software for 4G and 5G small cells, the compact base stations used indoors and in dense areas. A baseband chip handles the digital signal processing that turns radio signals into data. Picocom builds to Open RAN standards, which let operators mix equipment from different vendors, and it has also moved into satellite networks. The company is based in Bristol, United Kingdom, and lists membership of the Small Cell Forum and the O-RAN Alliance.
Picocom was founded in 2018 and is based in Bristol, UK, United Kingdom. It is listed under ASICs, DSPs.
Compute Technologies
- ASICs
- DSPs
What Picocom works on
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
DSPs
A DSP, or digital signal processor, is a processor built to handle streams of real-world data such as audio, radio signals and sensor readings. It takes samples from an analog-to-digital converter and filters, compresses or analyses them in real time.
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