Chicago, IL — DesignArt Networks (DAN), a fabless semiconductor company, has unveiled the DAN2200 WiMAX femtocell SoC. Claiming to be the industry's only complete single-chip femtocell SoC, the chip allows equipment vendors to shatter the unit price barrier of $100.
Based on this SoC, complete femtocell designs consume less than 5 W of total power, while providing plenty of spare processing power to run embedded high-capacity networking and media streaming applications — such femtocells can be easily integrated with home gateway equipment to facilitate the delivery of high-definition media to fixed and mobile wireless broadband devices. This results in faster adoption of WiMAX femtocells in residential, business, and hot-spot applications.
Certified for IEEE 802.16e Wave 2, the DAN2200 delivers non-blocking WiMAX performance for up to 25 simultaneous subscribers. It is the second SoC in a family of WiMAX infrastructure products from DesignArt Networks. Based on the company's open 4G SoC platform, the software-centric multi-core architecture features many advanced and patented capabilities, including plug-and-play installation, robust embedded synchronization options and fully automated installation and operation of WiMAX femtocell clusters.
According to the company, the industry is gearing up for extensive deployment of femtocells in mobile broadband networks but the lack of cost-effective solutions is slowing down initial adoption cycles. The DAN2200 SoC is specifically designed to accelerate this process, overcoming critical barriers regarding cost, size and power consumption of WiMAX femtocells. It enables deployment of dense femtocell clusters, providing advanced self-organizing network mechanisms, generally eliminating interference between femtocells, as well as with the outdoor RAN infrastructure. Femtocell reference designs are available today, and production shipments of the SoC are expected in the first quarter of 2009.
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