Fujitsu to Demonstrate Mobile WiMAX SoC at Mobile World Congress

by Jeff Orr, Editor
Mobile Broadband News

Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe plans to exhibit its WiMAX devices, demonstrating its WiMAX solutions and unveiling its Release 1.0 Wave 2-compliant baseband SoC at the 2008 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. The Mobile World Congress is one of the biggest mobile technology exhibitions in the world attracting over 50,000 visitors during the four days.

Fujitsu is one of the founding and board members of the WiMAX Forum and will use the event to showcase its latest generation of WiMAX solutions in Silicon.

For the first time in Europe, Fujitsu will show its Release 1.0 Wave 2-compliant baseband SoC (MB86K21) in operation, performing wireless communication between Fujitsu’s MIMO-compliant Mobile WiMAX PC card and a Mobile WiMAX base station. This demo includes video streaming transmitted wirelessly. The mobile WiMAX SoC fully complies with the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard, and incorporates scalable 1024 FFT OFDMA PHY and full MAC processors; adaptive modulation schemes including 64QAM, 16QAM and QPSK; and an interface for MIMO RF modules, in a small-footprint FBGA package.

Furthermore, Fujitsu will provide an insight into future form factors of mobile WiMAX applications that will become available early in the first half of 2008, as well as System Development Kits for MB86K21, and its PC Card Reference Design Kit – which the vendor says is currently available.

No mention of vendor supply agreements for use of the Mobile WiMAX SoC was provided.