Tuesday, 20 March 2007

NXP Semiconductors Doubles Mobile-data Access Speed with New 2x2 MIMO Mobile WiMAX Transceivers

Independent semiconductor company NXP continues to deliver the technology behind the mobile lifestyle with its complete WiMAX 2x2 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) powered family of transceivers for mobile and handheld applications.

In support of the mass deployment of mobile WiMAX, NXP’s latest collection of transceivers employ 2x2 MIMO technology, allowing for twice the data throughput and double the maximum speed of the company’s existing WiMAX transceiver solutions.

NXP’s transceiver solutions will allow WiMAX infrastructure OEMs and ODMs to implement more robust WiMAX functionality, while achieving unparalleled savings in overall power, board real-estate and system costs.

One of the few 2x2 MIMO WiMax solutions in the industry, NXP’s new family of UXA234xx WiMAX transceivers improves reach and drives greater bandwidth and spectral efficiency, being particularly effective for accessing a WiMAX connection in dense urban areas. Because 2x2 MIMO allows for dual input and output channels, it addresses the requirements of bandwidth-intensive mobile applications, such as streaming data, voice and video data without compromising network load at a much lower cost to carriers. End users can thus experience speeds of up to 15 MB- three to five times faster than today’s wireless broadband cellular networks.

“WiMAX is changing the way and speed that consumers will access by permitting a quadruple play of voice, video and data transfer while on the move, allowing the connected consumer to engage in a truly nomadic way of life,” said Will Strauss, Analyst, Forward Concepts.

Building on the success of the initial range of WiMAX transceivers, the new range guarantees seamless handover from base station to base station, tackling one of the biggest challenges that designers of WiMAX equipments face. Optimum interoperability is also achieved with a variety of basebands by utilizing standard analog I/Q and serial interfacing and co-existing with cellular, WLAN and Bluetooth standards.

The UXA23466 and UXA23476 WiMAX 2x2 MIMO transceivers are sampling now with plans to start volume production in Q2.