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Xilinx
Announces Industry's Most Comprehensive Suite of Programmable WiMAX
Solutions
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WiMAX Development
Tools, Seamless Mobility,
WiMAX Surveillance Products
Xilinx, Inc.
October 25, 2005
FPGA Leader Extends Leadership in Wireless Infrastructure Space With
Development Tools Tailored for Rapidly Emerging Broadband Wireless
Standard
San Jose, CA -- Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX), the leading FPGA
supplier to the wireless infrastructure market and principal member of
the WiMAX Forum, today announced the industry's most robust suite of
programmable solutions designed specifically for implementing products
based on the emerging WiMAX wide-range wireless standard. The suite of
solutions includes a jointly developed Mini-PCI reference design, a
complete Forward Error Correction (FEC) IP bundle, and online design
resources. Xilinx is among a growing number of industry leaders to
target this rapidly growing standard, providing product developers with
an efficient, low risk and flexible means to bring WiMAX products to
market. |
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Central to the new suite of solutions is the bundled suite of
application- specific IP for Forward Error Correction. Offering a 60
percent cost savings* the FEC IP bundle enables quick implementation of
WiMAX designs optimized for use with Xilinx high-performance Virtex(TM)-4
and Spartan(TM)-3 FPGA families. In a related announcement today, Xilinx
and Wavesat, a fabless semiconductor developer of broadband wireless
chips, unveiled a jointly developed WiMAX Mini-PCI Reference Design. The
design provides a plug-and-play development platform designed to
accelerate time-to-market for WiMAX equipment manufacturers.
Today's announcement builds upon the company's extensive experience in
developing products for emerging wireless infrastructure protocols
including 802.11, EDGE, WCDMA, HSDPA, TD-SCDMA and others. "WiMAX holds
enormous potential and like other wireless protocols will benefit
greatly from the flexibility, time-to-market, cost and performance
advantages offered by FPGAs. For an emerging standard that will surely
evolve over the coming months and years, rapid reprogrammability is
essential," said Robert Bielby, senior director of vertical markets and
partnerships at Xilinx. "Our solutions leverage our extensive experience
and leadership in other wireless areas. By adding WiMAX specific
technology we can continue to accelerate the proliferation of this
exciting communications standard."
WiMAX Market Opportunity
Based on its ability to reduce costs and increase efficiency within the
enterprise environment, analysts forecast significant growth for the
WiMAX standard. According to Visant Strategies, the number of worldwide
WiMAX users is expected to grow from virtually nothing in 2005 to 14.9
million users in 2009, creating over $13.8 billion dollars in service
revenues from this segment. "We expect that WiMAX will become a
predominant portion of the broadband wireless access market by 2009
because of the wide support it has achieved from leading equipment
vendors," said Senior Analyst Andy Fuertes at Visant Strategies.
FPGAs Address Emerging WiMAX Market Requirements
WiMAX product development is an ideal match for the advantages of an
FPGA approach. The programmability of FPGAs provides a proven future
proofing strategy for developers having to deal with the rapidly
evolving standard and product requirements. In addition, WiMAX
applications are demanding from a performance and feature standpoint,
and Platform FPGA offerings such as the Xilinx Virtex-4 and Spartan-3
families offer system-level solutions that include embedded processors,
high performance DSP engines, and a full suite of customizable IP.
Pricing and Availability
The WiMAX FEC IP pack is immediately available and priced at US $19995.
The bundle pricing represents a 60 percent discount over the price of
the IP when purchased separately. Included in the FEC IP bundle is a
convolutional turbo codec (CTC) encoder & decoder; turbo product codec (TPC)
encoder & decoder; a Reed-Solomon encoder & decoder; and a high-speed
convolutional (Viterbi) codec encoder & decoder. These are complemented
with a full range of other wireless functional blocks and related IP
cores for connectivity, channel coding, Digital Front-End (DUC/DDC/DPD/CFR)
and security. Visit
http://www.xilinx.com/ipcenter/ for more information.
Xilinx WiMAX Web Portal
In addition to silicon and IP, Xilinx has developed a comprehensive
online resource to provide WiMAX product designers with a vast array of
solutions and information in a single location. The portal provides
users with a rich source of information including WiMAX technology
tutorials, market overviews, system block diagrams, extensive glossaries
and links to third party solutions. Visit http://www.xilinx.com/wimax
for more information.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions.
For more information, visit http://www.xilinx.com.
* As compared to IP purchased separately (bundle pricing). |
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