Firmware Development for Evolving Digital Communication Technologies

Advances in modern digital communication technologies enable higher data transmission speeds and thus more and more sophisticated services can be offered to the end user. For a semiconductor manufacturer playing in this arena, the market demand for new products supporting the latest communication standards becomes an ever growing challenge. This is owing to the tremendous complexity increase from one technology generation to its successor—in wireless communications this is roughly a factor of ten—while time-to-market has to be preserved for the sake of competitiveness.