Dual-band dongle is easy intro to Mobile WiMAX
A Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe GmbH product story
Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Jun 18, 2008
Reference design kit marries Fujitsu's Mobile WiMAX system development kit and its MB86K21 SoC with Infineon's SMARTi WiMAX RF transceiver.
A new WiMAX dual-band USB Dongle reference design kit from Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe combines the company's Mobile WiMAX system development kit and its MB86K21 SoC with Infineon's SMARTi WiMAX RF transceiver.
FME's recently announced co-operation with Infineon gives its Mobile WiMAX customers the option to use the 3.5GHz band up to 3.8GHz, in addition to the 2.5GHz band.
This means that the vast majority of all licensed bands worldwide can be supported with one highly integrated and flexible front end.
Fujitsu's MB86K21 highly integrated, MAC and PHY, mixed signal baseband SoC combined with the Infineon PMB2008 state-of-the-art single chip RF transceiver are the core elements of Fujitsu's Mobile WiMAX USB dongle reference kit.
The kit provides a starting point for the development of Mobile WiMAX products with USB interfaces.
In addition it can be used for initial tests and evaluations.
The SoC has been designed to comply with the IEEE802.16e-2005 standard.
Connecting to FME's baseband interface, which is fully MIMO-compliant, the kit supports handover within both bands and has a performance of up to and beyond 20Mbit/s.
The reference kit will include all the appropriate software and tools, Gerber files, schematics and BOM.
FME will also assist customers with the development of their own commercial products based on this reference design.
The kit is designed for OEMs, ODMs and system manufacturers to provide Mobile WiMAX stations with USB interfaces.
Along with the reference design hardware, FME delivers detailed design documents.
The software package includes USB drivers for Windows operating systems.
An API software layer for customers to develop custom application and graphic user interfaces is provided on top of the hardware interface driver.
Maintenance software is able to measure air-traffic performance, noise level, error rates, transmitting and receiving powers, MAC management messages, connection IDs, as well as providing settings/readings for many useful parameters.
Engineering models of the USB Dongle reference design kit will be available at the end of Q3 2008.
Samples of the MB86K21, the PCMCIA RDK (PCMCIA Reference Design Kit) and SDK (system development kit) are available now.
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