Xilinx Announces Comprehensive Suite of Programmable WiMax Solutions

Xilinx Announces Comprehensive Suite of Programmable WiMax Solutions

Xilinx, Inc. announced the industry’s most robust suite of programmable solutions designed specifically for implementing products based on the emerging WiMAX wide-range wireless standard. The suite of solutions includes a jointly developed Mini-PCI reference design, a complete Forward Error Correction (FEC) IP bundle, and online design resources.

FPGA leader extends leadership in wireless infrastructure space with development tools tailored for rapidly emerging broadband wireless standard

Central to the new suite of solutions is the bundled suite of application-specific IP for Forward Error Correction. Offering a 60 percent cost savings* the FEC IP bundle enables quick implementation of WiMAX designs optimized for use with Xilinx high-performance Virtex™-4 and Spartan™-3 FPGA families. In a related announcement today, Xilinx and Wavesat, a fabless semiconductor developer of broadband wireless chips, unveiled a jointly developed WiMAX Mini-PCI Reference Design. The design provides a plug-and-play development platform designed to accelerate time-to-market for WiMAX equipment manufacturers.