Mini-PCI card hosts WiMAX CPE development

Mini-PCI board provides advanced WiMAX features such as support for UL subchannelisation which significantly improves performance for indoor modems

Wavesat has released its second-generation WiMAX Mini-PCI design targeting low cost mass market indoor and outdoor customer premises equipment. Wavesat's NP7256 mini-PCI design provides advanced WiMAX features such as support for UL subchannelisation which significantly improves performance for indoor modems.

Based on Wavesat's latest Evolutive NP7256 ASIC, this new generation WiMAX Mini-PCI has been redesigned with fewer parts and advanced RF chipsets to substantially reduce overall sise and BOM.

Combined with Wavesat's MAC software, it enables ODMs and OEMs to build small and extremely low cost subscriber units.

The flexible architecture of the Mini-PCI will offer easy design upgradeability to WiMAX 802.16e.

'Near- to medium-term applications for WiMAX are driven by fixed and portable application services, CPE cost, and platform flexibility', says Frank Draper, Wavesat's VP Strategic Development.

'Our WiMAX NP7256 Mini-PCI design offers OEMs and ODMs the opportunity to quickly develop a low BOM subscriber unit with minimum NRE investment and risk by using existing broadband CPE platform'.

'As a market leader, Wavesat will continue to focus on enhancing current product portfolio to bring additional cost reduction, easy upgradeability and design flexibility to its unique architecture'.

Wavesat's WiMAX Forum Certified WiMAX product portfolio supports both basestations and subscriber units for licensed and licence-exempt radio frequencies.

Wavesat provides a full-range of standards-based integrated circuits, software, and development platforms supporting IEEE802.16-2004 and 802.16e-2005 standards.

Featuring the industry's first WiMAX Mini-PCI card and chosen by ODMs and OEMs worldwide, Wavesat's WiMAX portfolio provides effective wireless connectivity for a wide range of network sises and coverage from urban to rural applications.