Fujitsu Microelectronics says there are equal opportunities for both fixed and mobile WiMAX wireless access systems and the company is offering a one-chip MAC and PHY mixed-signal baseband SoC for all WiMAX applications.
“As the broadband wireless market continues to gain momentum, we’ll see fixed and mobile WiMAX networks co-exist throughout the world,” said Dirk Weinsziehr, Senior Director Marketing for FME.
While Fujitsu supports a range of applications in the 802.16-2004 market, the company said it believes that fixed systems will not be replaced by emerging WiMAX mobile systems.
“Applications such as wireless VPN, disaster recovery, wireless backhaul and broadcast-quality streaming media will continue to be best served by fixed WiMAX. High-speed vehicular data sharing, consumer-in-motion and mobile appliance connectivity will require mobile WiMAX ,” said the company.
The 90nm SoC is compliant with the IEEE 802.16e-2005 Mobile WiMAX standard. It features a scalable1024 fast Fourier transform (FFT) OFDMA PHY and full MAC processors. It will support a number of adaptive modulation schemes including 64QAM, 16QAM, QPSK, and BPSK.
Engineering samples will be available in 1Q 2007. Systems using the Fujitsu mobile WiMAX SoC will be submitted to the WiMAX Forum for certification in 3Q 2007.
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