WiMAX System Development Kit offers up to 20 Mbit/sec.
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Combining Mobile WiMAX system development kit, IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard compliant MB86K21 mixed signal baseband SoC, and SMARTi(TM) WiMAX dual-band RF transceiver, WiMAX Dual-Band USB Dongle Reference Kit enables development of Mobile WiMAX products with USB interfaces. It features 64 QAM (DL) and 16 QAM and QPSK modulation, OFDMA PHY with TDD, 512/1,024 points FFT to support 5 and 10 MHz channel bandwidths, dual RISC processors, and USB 2.0 interface.
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Fujitsu Launches WiMAX Dual-Band USB Dongle Reference Design Kit
Langen, Germany and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 17 June 2008 - Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME) launches its WiMAX(TM) dual-band USB Dongle reference design kit, bringing together its Mobile WiMAX system development kit, its MB86K21 SoC and Infineon's WiMAX RF Transceiver SMARTi(TM) WiMAX.
FME's recently announced co-operation with Infineon gives its Mobile WiMAX(TM) customers the option to use the 3.5GHz band up to 3.8GHz, in addition to the 2.5GHz band. This means that the vast majority of all licensed bands worldwide can be supported with one highly integrated and flexible front-end.
Fujitsu's MB86K21 highly integrated, MAC and PHY, mixed signal baseband SoC combined with the Infineon PMB2008 state-of-the-art single chip RF transceiver are the core elements of Fujitsu's Mobile WiMAX USB dongle reference kit. The kit provides a starting point for the development of Mobile WiMAX products with USB interfaces. In addition it can be used for initial tests and evaluations. The SoC has been designed to comply with the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard.
Key features include:
Baseband SoC implements all features required for Wave 2 Mobile WiMAX certification
Low power, dual-band, high performance RF transceiver
64QAM (DL), 16QAM and QPSK modulation
OFDMA PHY with TDD
512/1024 points FFT to support 5MHz and 10MHz channel bandwidth
Dual RISC processors for implementing upper & lower MAC
USB2.0 interface
Connecting to FME's base-band interface, which is fully MIMO-compliant, the kit supports hand-over within both bands and has a performance of up to and beyond 20Mbit/s. The reference kit will include all the appropriate software and tools, Gerber files, schematics and BOM. FME will also assist customers with the development of their own commercial products based on this reference design.
The kit is designed for OEMs, ODMs and system manufacturers to provide WiMAX Mobile stations with USB interfaces. Along with the reference design hardware, FME delivers detailed design documents. The software package includes USB drivers for Windows® operating systems. An API software layer for customers to develop custom application and graphic user interfaces is provided on top of the hardware interface driver.
Maintenance software is able to measure air-traffic performance, noise level, error rates, transmitting and receiving powers, MAC management messages, connection IDs, as well as providing settings / readings for many useful parameters.
Engineering models of the USB Dongle reference design kit will be available end-Q3 2008, while samples of the MB86K21, the PCMCIA RDK (PCMCIA Reference Design Kit) and SDK (System Development Kit) are available now.
Fujitsu has been actively involved in WiMAX and IEEE 802.16 activities since 2003, and has provided WiMAX solutions since the launch of its Fixed WiMAX SoC based on the IEEE 802.16d-2004 standard.
About Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe
Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME) is a major supplier of semiconductor products. The company provides advanced systems solutions to the automotive, digital TV, mobile telephony, networking and industrial markets. Engineers from design centres dedicated to microcontrollers, graphics controllers, mixed-signal, wireless, multimedia ICs and ASIC products work closely with FME's marketing and sales teams throughout Europe to help satisfy customers' system development requirements. This solutions approach is supported by a broad range of advanced semiconductor devices, IP and building blocks.
For more information, please see: http://emea.fujitsu.com/microelectronics
Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe
Pittlerstrasse 47
63225 Langen
Germany
Tel: +49 (0)6103 69 00
Fax: +49 (0)6103 69 01 22
E-mail: jim.bryant@fme.fujitsu.com
Contacts: Jim Bryant
