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Wintegra, the semiconductor company enabling the next generation of access networks, has introduced WinMax, a family of single chip processors and associated software for WiMAX basestation (BTS) applications.

 

The WinMax family provides an integrated silicon and software solution for the MAC (Media Access Control) and transport functions of mobile WiMAX basestations, and offers a common architecture that is scalable from cost-effective picostations up to multi-sector macro basestations supporting advanced features such as adaptive antenna system (AAS) and MIMO.

 

As well, the WinMAX family has market leading subscriber density, multiple sector support and available performance for rapidly evolving 802.16e WiMAX (News - Alert) basestations. With its innovative features, WinMax can provide a number of advantages to the WiMAX BTS designer over other approaches that may use ASICs, FPGAs or RISC processors. WinMax provides a solution that is cost-competitive with ASICs, yet offers the unique benefit of full programmability, field upgradeability (to meet evolving standards), and a full family of pin-compatible and SW compatible parts.

 

The WinMax system is a true software-based solution executed on the WinMax Access Packet Processor. The WinMax processor itself is based on the recently introduced WinPath2 family of processors, which utilizes the same data path software (DPS) and WDDI API software architecture as the company's successful WinPath1 processors.

 

With the new processors, basestation designers will be able to realize any specific feature within the WinMax system without the need for a new system-on-chip (SoC) revision.

 

The features, performance and power characteristics of the WinMax devices have been specifically tailored to the needs of the rapidly expanding WiMAX market. WinMax features a flexible datapath engine architecture based on Symmetric Multi Thread Processor (SMTP) technology. It offers market leading density in terms of the number of sectors and subscribers per sector that can be supported.

 

"Because the WiMAX standard is still evolving, designers need a flexible platform to meet a wide range of needs in terms of functionality and performance. WinMax has been targeted at meeting this need, and is also cost effective in terms of both Bill of Materials (BOM) and development,” said Colin Alexander, Director of Wireless Marketing at Wintegra in a statement to the press. “We have customer designs where WinMax has removed between 5 and 7 other devices from the customers' alternative designs. In addition, our silicon architecture and "SMTP superiority" offers scheduling and features beyond any other device. Our parallelism offers unique advantages other devices cannot provide.”

 

 

 

 

 

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