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WiMAX RF Reference Designs |
Texas Instruments Shortens
Design Cycles with Complete Radio Frequency Transceiver Reference
Designs for WiMAX Applications
Other Topics: WiMAX-Wi-Fi Mesh Network Solution, WiMAX Semiconductor,
Mobile WiMAX Equipment Chips,
WiMAX Mesh
Texas Instruments Incorporated
October 10, 2006
Reference Designs Support
2.5GHz, 3.5GHz and 5.6GHz Frequency Bands in Wireless Broadband Base
Stations and Access Points
WiMAX World, Booth #525 - Boston, MA -- Texas Instruments Incorporated
(TI) [NYSE:TXN] today expanded its portfolio of complete wireless signal
chain solutions for WiMAX applications, introducing three
release-to-production radio frequency (RF) transceiver reference
designs. These designs support IEEE’s 802.16d/e standard RF front end
requirements for a variety of wireless infrastructure technologies,
including base stations, access points, wireless backhaul,
point-to-point microwave, safety band and Frequency Division Duplex (FDD)-based
applications. The complete reference designs include board, design
database, schematics and bill of materials to significantly reduce
development time. TI is currently displaying these reference boards in
its booth number 525 at WiMAX World, October 10-12, at the Boston World
Trade Center. For more information about TI’s WiMAX solutions, go to
www.ti.com/wimaxwi. |
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“Axxcelera is one of the
world’s most experienced wireless solutions providers, and to maintain
our leadership, we need to quickly roll out high-performance WiMAX
products to meet industry demand,” said Tony Masters, senior vice
president of Engineering and Operations at Axxcelera. “TI’s complete
WiMAX reference designs enable us to maintain our high level of
performance and reliability and still deliver products to the market as
quickly as possible.”
The TSW5002 RF reference design, which operates at 2.5 GHz, incorporates
TI’s TRF11xx chipset and the TSW5003, operating at 3.5 GHz, utilizes the
TRF12xx chipset. Both chipsets consist of five chips with fully
integrated superheterodyne receivers and transmitters. These complete
reference designs support FDD, Half Frequency Division Duplex (HFDD) and
Time Division Duplex (TDD) modes with a real interface at a low
intermediate frequency (IF) to the data conversion subsystem. TI’s
flexible RF chipsets are compliant with today’s demanding mask
requirements, while the receivers feature excellent sensitivity and
blocker suppression.
The TSW5005 reference design, operating at 5.6 GHz, incorporates the
TRF2432 and TRF2436 heterodyne transceiver two-chip chipset, the most
integrated solution available. These chipsets support 4.9-5.9GHz air
interface frequency band, and consist of an IF and RF transceiver. The
reference design supports TDD mode with complex I/Q interface.
In addition to providing a complete design for the designated frequency,
each reference board can be customized for the various transceiving
frequencies supported by each chipset. The TSW5002/3/5 can be customized
for frequency ranges of 2.3-2.7GHz, 3.3-3.8GHz and 4.9-5.8GHz
respectively. Designers can customize the design quickly and easily by
substituting on-board filters centered at its band of interest.
“TI is committed to the WiMAX industry and wants our customers to
benefit from our years of experience in developing the industry’s best
RF solutions, allowing them to meet emerging market requirements in the
shortest timeframe to speed their market entry,” said David Briggs,
manager of TI’s analog wireless infrastructure products. “Our complete,
advanced RF reference designs also offer manufacturers a lower bill of
materials for a fully tested RF transceiver, ready to be implemented
into WiMAX-compliant designs immediately.”
In addition to providing leading-edge analog products for the WiMAX
market, TI also delivers high performance DSPs, and a Wave 1 certified
software library to speed product development. TI is the only
semiconductor company to provide the complete signal chain solution for
WiMAX infrastructure applications.
Availability
All three reference designs will be available via online order entry in
Q4 2006 at an evaluation module (EVM) price of $499 for each of the
three boards.
About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog
technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing
requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company includes the
Educational & Productivity Solutions business. TI is headquartered in
Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more
than 25 countries.
Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the
symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at
www.ti.com.
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