The Worlds Smallest and Lowest power WiMAX PHY solution by Coresonic AB

Product Description

Are you developing state-of-the-art mobile WiMAX products? If so, then don’t settle for the very large and power hungry solutions currently available which are not even flexible enough to cope with the huge range of the standards.
Now, a real solution is available from Coresonic which you won’t believe how small and efficient it is until you see it for yourself. Available for license as semiconductor IP and optional firmware, our LeoCore technology enables WiMAX and a huge range of other wireless communication standards to be added to any chip designs quickly and cost effectively.
Size is important – even in 65nm, less gates is always better than more. Furthermore, in deep submicron technology the leakage current is so significant that the less gates you have to leak the better your power performance.
Coresonic’s complete mobile WiMAX solution can be implemented in a 65nm design using less than 1.5sqmm of additional silicon, which is less area than the program caches of some solutions - let alone the rest of the design!
We all know that power consumption is also important. The battery life today of a 3G phone in 2G mode is very noticeably different than when it is in 3G mode. In WiMAX and LTE the processing requirements are much greater still so the power issue is a real problem.
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. Now if we add power management and real-life usage patterns, the actual figure would be a fraction of this.
You don’t believe it can be done?
You would be right to think this is impossible if LeoCore was just another DSP with some accelerators added to it. But it is not just another DSP.
Coresonic’s LeoCore technology is the only licensable programmable architecture specifically designed for baseband processing applications. Its unique patented architecture is optimized for communications processing and provides the most flexible, programmable solution required to support next generation and multiple radio standards. It achieves this while being far smaller and consuming much lower power than many fixed function hardwired solutions designed only for a single standard.

The Worlds Smallest and Lowest power WiMAX PHY solution

Market Segment(s)

• Home
• Mobile

Companion Processor(s)

• Communication
• DSP

ARM Processor(s)

• ARM7EJ-S
• ARM7TDMI
• ARM7TDMI-S
• ARM720T
• ARM920T
• ARM922T
• ARM926EJ-S
• ARM940T
• ARM946E-S
• ARM966E-S
• ARM968E-S
• VFP9-S
• ARM1020E
• ARM1022E
• ARM1026EJ-S
• VFP10
• ARM1136J-S
• ARM1136JF-S
• ARM1156T2(F)-S
• ARM1176JZ(F)-S
• ARM11 MPCore
• Cortex-A8
• Cortex-A9
• Cortex-M1
• Cortex-M3
• Cortex-R4
• SC100
• SC200
• ARMv5
• StrongARM
• XScale
• Other

System IP

• Interconnect Fabric
• Memory Controller

Physical IP

• SRAM Memory Compilers
• Standard Cell Libraries