Introduced as the world's first, a fully integrated high-performance WiMAX
family of transceivers, specifically for mobile and handheld applications,
has been announced by NXP.
The 2.3GHz to 2.4GHz UXF23480 designed for use within North America and
Australia, and the 2.5GHz to 2.7GHz UXF23460, for use throughout Taiwan,
Japan, North America and Europe, are both fully 802.16e compliant and
deliver significant benefits, enabling robust terminal designs.
The WiMAX transceivers minimize the need for additional components, reducing
design time and speeding up time to market. Combining low power consumption,
a noise figure of less than three decibels, as well as high adjacent channel
rejection, the high-performance ICs deliver significant benefits to mobile,
nomadic and fixed wireless access (FWA) equipment, says the company.
"The past year has been extremely significant in the development of WiMAX,
and recent trials have demonstrated the system's ability to provide wireless
broadband over a vast area," said Ruud van den Brink, marketing manager, RF
WiMAX product line, NXP. "As devices become smaller, so do the requirements
for smaller components. Fully-integrated circuits such as the UXF23480/60
are now essential to enable WiMAX to be incorporated into our customer's new
products, as space on the PCB becomes a premium, and the need for additional
components needs to be minimized."
Some of the biggest challenges for WiMAX-enabled mobile devices are
associated with handover from basestation to basestation. NXP has developed
a high-quality solution which is proven to offer seamless handover. In
addition the UXF23480/60 is an interoperable solution which will work with a
variety of basebands by utilizing standard analog I/Q and serial interfacing
and co-exists with cellular, WLAN and Bluetooth standards.
"NXP's family of WiMAX transceivers will make it easier for design engineers
to bring new and inventive products to market. These robust transceivers
will enable a wide variety of handheld devices to boost broadband
communications. As demand for high-speed broadband access on mobile devices
grows, NXP's family of WiMAX transceivers will help manufactures quickly
integrate this capability into the next generation of consumer gadgets,"
said Ruud van den Brink.
