NextWave Wireless Launches "No Compromise" Second-generation Mobile WiMAX Chipset

(Product News, 3 Apr 2008)

NextWave Wireless Inc. has released the NW2000 Wave 2-ready family of advanced, second-generation mobile WiMAX chipsets. The innovative "No Compromise" WiMAX silicon solutions raise the bar for mobile WiMAX chipsets—offering a compact solution with outstanding performance, very low power consumption and enhanced integration for mobile multimedia.

The NW2000 offers optimized 4G silicon to enable bandwidth intensive mobile multimedia applications—including streaming video, video conferencing, Quality-of-Service (QoS) sensitive applications such as Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and support for NextWave's recently announced MXtv mobile broadcast over WiMAX service.

The NextWave NW2000 family is ideally suited for high-volume, small form-factor wireless broadband subscriber stations, including CPE modems, PC card modems, laptops, multimode/smartphone handsets and mobile multimedia terminals. Specifically, the new mobile WiMAX chipsets include:

NW2100
- A family of 802.16e-based mobile subscriber baseband System-On-a-Chip (SoC) solutions designed for Wave 2 WiMAX Forum compliance. Integrating an ARM9 processor and memory, the NW2100 provides a complete self-hosted modem, enabling designs with minimum processing load on the host processor. The use of advanced 65nm CMOS process technology significantly minimizes chip size and greatly reduces power consumption. Other distinctive features of NextWave's NW2100 SoC include integrated 802.11b/g MAC/BB, SIM controller, multiple host interfaces, an embedded device security/firmware authentication engine, support for optimum data throughput, and advanced proprietary techniques that significantly reduce the overall system power consumption.

NW2200
- Designed to be used in conjunction with NextWave's NW2100 WiMAX SoC family, NextWave's NW2200 family of single-chip, highly integrated, multi-band Radio Frequency (RF) transceivers have dual independent receive chains optimized for mobile applications. The NW2200 provides a compact, ultra low-power, high-performance solution for manufacturers of wireless broadband mobile devices, and unlike competitor RF ICs it supports all major worldwide WiMAX bands and profiles. To further decrease total system cost and chip footprint, NextWave has deployed a direct-conversion architecture, integrated low-noise amplifiers, and integrated low-dropout voltage regulators for reduced external component count.

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