Coresonic's wireless modem hardware solution allows semiconductor manufacturers to quickly and cost-effectively implement WiMax functionality into their devices.
The company's WiMAX "personality pack," is based on the company's LeoCore programmable baseband processor technology and provides complete IEEE802.16 functionality from the RF interface through to the central processor interface.
This personality pack is the first of a number of complete hardware solutions that Coresonic will be developing—other solutions will be announced for LTE, mobile media, short range communications, high speed short range communications, as well as legacy cellular systems.
Coresonic's WiMax personality pack supports the mobile WiMax 802.16e-2005 mobile system profile rev 1.4, which will support other modes such as 802.16d and 802.16j.
The pack performs everything from ADC/DAC interface to FEC, including digital front-end signal conditioning, synchronization, MIMO channel estimation/compensation, error correction and chase combing.
All blocks provided enable a complete solution from the RF interface to interfacing to a CPU (central processor) to run the MAC layer; the processing intensive elements are implemented in hardware to minimize the load on the MAC CPU.
Rick Clucas, CEO of Coresonic, said, "We have already spoken to a number of semiconductor companies and the main feedback we are receiving from them is that no other licensable solution appears to come close to our solution in terms of size and power consumption—in fact, some instruction caches are as large as our complete baseband processor solution."
More information is available at www.coresonic.com.
