Skyworks Supports LG's Black Label Suite of CDMA Handsets

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Skyworks Solutions, Inc. has announced that its complete CDMA radio is supporting several current as well as forthcoming platforms from LG Electronics, most notably their award winning and revolutionary LG5900 model, or "Black Label" handset. Providing features such as a touch-sensitive keypad, camera, MP3 player, and EVDO capability, the LG5900 or "Chocolate" phone is already a best seller in Korea, with more than 300, 000 units sold there since its launch in November 2005. LG’s Chocolate phone recently won Europe’s 2006 Reddot and iF Design Awards, two of the continent’s greatest accolades.

Skyworks’ CDMA radio system is a two chip solution that includes a direct conversion transmitter (SKY74068), low-noise amplifier (SKY74092), direct conversion receiver (SKY74100), power amplifier, SAW filters and various passive components. Together, they provide all the necessary functionality for a complete transmit and receive chain and reduce RF printed circuit board space by up to 75 percent versus discrete implementations, allowing for smaller, slimmer, feature-rich handsets. Skyworks’ family of CDMA radios support several configurations of bands and modes, from CDMA-band or KPCS-band for single-band markets such as South Korea, China and India, to tri-band CDMA RF subsystems for South and North America. Each of these multi-chip modules offers substantial reduction in printed circuit board space, in addition to simplifying the customer handset design process by eliminating the need for external RF tuning and optimization.

Through its innovative and proprietary technology, Skyworks is providing radio architectures to four of the top five leading OEMs and is the industry’s only high-volume supplier across all key air interfaces, namely CDMA, GPRS and EDGE.

The company’s migration of customers from power amplifiers to front-end modules, and now to complete radio solutions that allow for smaller RF footprints and reduced bill-of-materials, not only enables Skyworks to significantly increase its addressable market, but uniquely positions the company to migrate customers to 3G technology where multimode capability is a requirement.

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