AT&T Microelectronics Inc has a low-power coder-decoder designed to meet the data conversion requirements of digital cellular telephones and base stations: the company claims that the new Codec is the only complete single-chip solution to the problem of digital-cellular baseband-data conversion that fully meets requirements of the pan-European Groupe Speciale Mobile standard, as well as the North American IS-54 standard and the Japanese digital cellular standard; the device draws an average of 85mW when it is active; standby drain is 37mW; the T7582 Baseband Codec is fabricated in AT&T’S 0.9 micron linear-CMOS process, the part is sampling now, volume is promisedin the third quarter, and the thing costs $15 when you buy 1,000-up.
