Integrated WiMAX MIMO RF IC Solutions from PMC-Sierra

PMC-Sierra introduced its first WiMAX RF IC solutions for Femtocell base stations, Customer Premises Equipment, and Mobile Station designs. PMC-Sierra also announced a collaboration with Sequans Communications, a leading WiMAX baseband chip supplier, to integrate its WiZIRD RF IC family with Sequans’ advanced SQN1130 and SQN2130 subscriber station and base station chips.

The WiZIRD family is powered by PMC-Sierra’s “Extend Range, Rate and Roaming Architecture” (EXTRRRA), which enables WiMAX service providers to expand coverage areas with minimum capital expenditure, increase the data rate using full 2Tx/2Rx MIMO capability, and support global roaming.

The PM8800 WiZIRD 2Tx/2Rx is the industry’s most integrated WiMAX RF IC solution with full 2Tx/2Rx Multiple In/Multiple Out (MIMO) capability to support a maximum downlink data rate of 63 Mbit/s per sector and a peak uplink data rate of 28 Mbit/s per sector in a 10 MHz channel.