Altair Semiconductor has commercialy launched a new TD-LTE terminal reference design for use in a range of products, including USB dongles, data cards, CPEs and handheld devices. 

Altair says that the reference design includes interoperability-tested LTE software stack and it's FourGeeâ„¢-3100/6200 chipset. The reference design features a unified TDD/FDD architecture using a single chipset and a single software stack, enabling a small form factor and cost efficient integration for multimode devices.

Recently, Altair announced a partnership with IPWireless to develop a suite of multi-band LTE modem products that will support key frequency bands ideally suited to global LTE deployments. The companies will integrate Altair’s software-defined radio baseband processor into IPWireless’ LTE devices. The first consumer-friendly LTE USB modem device will support multiple frequency bands including the 800MHz digital dividend band, 1800 MHz and TD-LTE’s 2.5 GHz. Subsequent devices will also support the entire US 700MHz and AWS frequency. 

Earlier this month LteWorld spoke to Eran Eshed, Co-Founder and VP of Marketing and Business Development of Altair on LTE developments & trends. Eran Eshed said, "Altair has100% focus on LTE now, We had been doing LTE development since 2006 and current products are outcome of that."

Company attributes releasing of TD-LTE version to the maturity of Altair’s FD-LTE solution which had sampled in September 2009, and the extensive testing it had undergone with most tier one infrastructure vendors.