| WiMAX mini-PCI reference design debuts |
Oct. 18, 2005
 Fabless chipmaker Wavesat hopes to accelerate the incorporation of its WiMAX controller chips into low-cost and small form-factor customer premises equipment (CPE) through the release of a mini-PCI reference design. The WiMAX Mini-PCI Reference Design offers "an essential ingredient to WiMAX mass market adoption," the company says.
(Click here for larger view of Wavesat's WiMAX mini-PCI reference design)
The Reference Design implements an extended mini-PCI form-factor module based on Wavesat's Evolutive WiMAX DM256 chipset, and includes one Mini-PCI WiMAX module, technical documentation, schematics, PCB design Gerbers, a bill-of-materials, and six months of technical support, according to the company. The module includes the PHY and low-level MAC functionality as well as the RF circuitry, and supports both HFDD (half-frequency-division duplex) and TDD (time-division duplex) modes of operation.
mini-PCI Reference Design functional diagram
Wavesat lists the following key features of the mini-PCI Reference Design: - Fully supports 1st round certification WiMAX profile
- profM3_PMP MAC system profile
- 3.5 GHz RF interface
- 3.5 MHz & 7MHz bandwidth
- TDD and HFDD Duplexing modes
- profC3_20 transmit power class profile
- Meets WiMAX spectral mask and EVM requirement
- Adaptive modulation (BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM & 64-QAM)
- Meets all six SUI Non Line of Sight (NLOS) channel models
- Patented channel equalization/synchronization algorithms
- Average power requirement -- 4.75 W (through mini-PCI interface)
- Size -- 3.15 x 2.36 in. (80 x 60 mm)
The company says its WiMAX chipsets, software, and reference designs enable the design of base stations and subscriber units for both licensed and license-exempt radio frequencies, and support WiMAX 802.16-2004 certification, including forward-compatibility with the 802.16e basic mobility specification.
Wavesat CTO Jules Pierre Lamoureux said, "Because our Mini-PCI design is fully tested and WiMAX compliant, our solution accelerates customer's CPE WiMAX certification."
Andy Fuertes, an analyst at Visant Strategies, said, "BWA (broadband wireless access) equipment shipments will exceed 1.5 million units and 40 percent year-on-year growth in 2005. It's a real market happening now which is migrating to WiMAX products. These successes are laying the foundation for acceptance in the mobile world in the future and a far larger market. Practical solutions such as the industry standard Mini-PCI form-factor WiMAX modules will accelerate market adoption by simplifying the design of the CPE, and reducing the overall cost." Visant forcasts that WiMAX will represent 50 percent of a $3.4 billion market for fixed and portable broadband equipment, by 2010.
Wavesat, based in Montreal, Canada, claims to have been the first company to release a "fully WiMAX compliant" chipset, in 2004.
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