Xilinx Inc. recently announced what is claimed to be the industry's most robust suite of programmable solutions designed specifically for implementing products based on the emerging WiMAX wide-range wireless standard. The suite of solutions includes a jointly developed Mini-PCI reference design, a complete Forward Error Correction (FEC) IP bundle and online design resources.
Central to the new suite of solutions is the bundled suite of application-specific IP for FEC. Offering a 60% cost savings the FEC IP bundle enables quick implementation of WiMAX designs optimized for use with Xilinx high-performance Virtex-4 and Spartan-3 FPGA families.
The WiMAX FEC IP pack is immediately available and priced at US $19995. The bundle pricing represents a 60% discount over the price of the IP when purchased separately. Included in the FEC IP bundle is a convolutional turbo codec (CTC) encoder and decoder; turbo product codec (TPC) encoder & decoder; a Reed-Solomon encoder and decoder; and a high-speed convolutional (Viterbi) codec encoder & decoder. These are complemented with a full range of other wireless functional blocks and related IP cores for connectivity, channel coding, Digital Front-End (DUC/DDC/DPD/CFR) and security.
