Wintegra Targets WiMax 640863

AUSTIN, Texas -- Wintegra™, the fabless semiconductor company enabling the next generation of access networks, has announced today the launch of 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. The WinMAX family has market leading subscriber density, multiple sector support and available performance for rapidly evolving 802.16e WiMAX 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, SW compatible parts.

Data path and control path implementation mean that the MAC and other components are implemented as a set of building blocks, which can be customized by the designer to meet the demand for advanced features such as AAS, MIMO and subchannel diversity requirements. This flexibility extends to future enhancements and standards such as wav-2, 16j relay stations, 16h for unlicensed frequency bands and the 16m next generation mobile network standard.

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. Using 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. Indeed customers have been developing software for their systems using a software-compatible WinPath device for over a year now. Some customers have already begun full mobility field trials using the Wintegra solution.

Wintegra Inc.