Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: PMC-Sierra | Subject: PM8800/1
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 September 2007
WiMAX chips take MIMO onboard
Highly integrated WiMAX RF IC features full twin-transmitter/twin-receiver multiple-in/multiple-out capability.
PMC-Sierra has developed its first WiMAX RF IC solutions for femtocell basestations, customer premises equipment and mobile station designs The PM8800 WiZIRD 2Tx/2Rx is the industry's most integrated WiMAX RF IC solution with full twin-transmitter/twin-receiver multiple-in/multiple-out (MIMO) capability to support a maximum downlink datarate of 63Mbit/s per sector and a peak uplink datarate of 28Mbit/s per sector in a 10MHz channel
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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