TI, Tata Elxsi deliver demonstration system for mobile WiMAX

Bangalore, July 12 (UNI) Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and Tata Elxsi (TEL) today announced their collaboration on an end-to-end base band demonstration system for IEEE 802.16e infrastructure products, enabling manufacturers to quickly roll out flexible base station solutions targeting the mobile WiMAX market.

This new design combined both the hardware and software required for system implementation, including a fully integrated Media Access Controller (MAC), allowing customers to incorporate the complete WiMax solution into their own products, a TI release here said.

The 802.16e mobile WiMAX standard was approved late last year by the IEEE task group for Mobile wireless MAN, and most analysts expect certified products to be available in 2007. To meet this deadline and gain market traction, manufacturers would need to quickly develop products and work towards certification.

TI recently announced its own 802.16e infrastructure solution for wireless applications as a complete signal chain solution, including software, analog and RF products, to support the emerging mobile WiMAX industry.

Providing a digital solution that integrated MAC capabilities completes the base station solution. This offering from TI and TEL would allow existing original equipment manufacturers (OEM) an easy path to migrate to mobility solutions for WiMAX, while providing new manufacturers a quick entry into the IEEE 802.16 market.

The design would enable all physical layer processing required for a 10 MHz, TDD, multi-antenna base band solution with multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) transmission across a breadth of air interfaces. TI's robust portfolio of WiMAX products allowed OEMs to offer a wide variety of products that could be matched to service providers' features requirements and deployment roadmaps, the release said.

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