Coresonic demonstrates Wimax personality pack

Coresonic will demonstrate its Leocore Wimax personality pack running on an FPGA-based system to show how it is possible to add a mobile Wimax solution to any device with little additional silicon.

Coresonic's Leocore allows Wimax connectivity to be added to any new chip design with just 1.5mm2 of additional silicon in a 65nm semiconductor manufacturing process.

The personality pack provides a complete mobile Wimax solution from RF interface through FEC to CPU interface for the MAC layer.

Leocore is available for license as semiconductor intellectual property and firmware, and the FPGA-evaluation platform is available for onsite demonstration or purchase.

The demo system runs at 80MHz, enough to perform 5MHz single-antenna Wimax channels as well as other standards such as WiFi.

Leocore technology eliminates the bottlenecks inherent in traditional baseband processing solutions, producing a viable solution for Wimax as well as LTE and other standards.

Coresonic said that the processor directly addresses the need for flexibility while driving power-efficient performance and minimising implementation time and cost.

It does this by focusing on three critical issues: data processing, data flow and programming efficiency.

Full mobile Wimax wave 2 solutions only require a maximum clock speed of 250MHz to run on Leocore.

Coupled with the very small gate count, even in a worst case scenario of constant full usage and no power management, the power consumption using Coresonic's technology would still be less than 50mW in a 65nm process.

When power management and real-life usage patterns are added, the actual figure would be a fraction of this.

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