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Coresonic and SySDSoft are both wireless semi-conductor IP companies that have just announced their joint venture for marketing their WiMAX (News - Alert) solutions. They have agreed to put together a comprehensive wireless package targeted towards system-on-chip developers. The companies aim to market each other’s technologies as complementary tools for their own products, hence providing more extensive options to their customers.

 

The companies’ first joint project is to produce a WiMAX demonstrator. In addition to this, both companies are offering their customers Bluetooth and WiFi support.

 

“Between us, we have a wealth of expertise in the latest and emerging wireless standards,” said Khaled Ismail, President of SySDSoft. Ismail went on to identify the key areas of expertise of each company: “Coresonic with their extremely power efficient baseband processor core which is programmable for multiple standards, and SySDSoft with our efficient, highly modular MAC layer which is easily portable to various processors and operating systems.”

 

“The significance of this agreement is the benefit it provides to the many chip designers we are talking to who have little wireless technology expertise, because their focus may be on an unrelated area such as video,” explained CEO of Coresonic, Rick Clucas. “Between our two companies, we'll provide a complete package comprising the world's most area and power efficient next generation baseband processor with PHY firmware, MAC layer and protocol stacks, allowing an OEM or ODM to quickly integrate a WiMAX or other IEEE802.16-based system-on-chip into their product. Customers can come to either company for this complete package, giving them a single contact point for support and development.”

 

SySDSoft is a designer of baseband and RF/analog circuits which are used for broadband connections. The company is focused on providing versatility to its users, and its technological range includes WiFi (News - Alert), WiMAX, wireless USB and Bluetooth. Apart from these, SySDSoft’s IP cores can be used in the new models of WiBro wave 2-compliant MAC for mobile devices/mobile WiMAX IEEE 802.16-e. SySDSoft’s technologies are easily integrated with and complemented by Coresonic’s LeoCore solution. This is a baseband processing technology which is highly efficient in terms of power usage and area requirement. By using LeoCore, system-on-chip designers can conveniently integrate next generation modem features into their systems, enabling them to work with 4G and a range of radio standards such as WiFi, UMB, DVB-T/H, ISDB-T, T-DMB, DAB+, HD radio, LTE (News - Alert) and WiMAX.

 

Coresonic was founded in 2004 and its headquarters are in Sweden. It grew from the research center, Stringent, at Linköping University. SysDSoft is a major supplier of WiMAX enabled software to chip manufacturers.

 

 

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