PARIS — R-Interface, provider of wireless IP and design services for digital system communications in telecom, broadcast and military markets (Marseille, France), announced it has joined the Xilinx Alliance Program.
The Xilinx Alliance Program gathers companies in the areas of IP cores, EDA, DSP and embedded development tools, as well as design services, board-level products, integrated circuits and electronic components. Members provide optimized products and services that contribute to a broad selection of industry-standard solutions dedicated for use with Xilinx FPGAs.
In parallel, R-Interface introduced a Low Density Parity check (LDPC) platform IP core optimized for Xilinx 65-nm Virtex FPGA and low-cost Spartan FPGA families. The LDPC platform IP powers a family of fully standard and proprietary LDPC solutions such as WiMAX mobile, WiFi-11n, DVB-S2/T2, DTMB and Power Line Communication, the French startup stated.
R-Interface specified that the first member of its LDPC family is compliant with the WiMAX Mobile (802.16e) standard. Thanks to its modular Processing Module approach and its advanced memory management, it can achieve up to 1Gbit/s possible in the smallest possible gates count, the company claimed.
"R-Interface's experience in wireless communication systems allowed them to create a set of compelling LDPC solutions optimized for Xilinx high performance Virtex-5 and low-cost Spartan-3 FPGA families, allowing customers to easily exploit the advantages of LDPC in their products," said Mark Quartermain, Wireless Baseband Marketing Manager for the Processing Solutions Group at Xilinx.
