Designed Into Wireless Devices
Tensilica's Xtensa processors have been designed into wireless products by Atheros, NuFront, SiBEAM, WiLinx, and WiQuest. You can now buy several products with Xtensa-based design inside:
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Lenovo ThinkPad T61/T61p |
Dell Inspiron 1720 |
D-Link Wireless USB hubs and adapters |
Belkin's Wireless USB hubs and adapters |
Atheros is using Tensilica's Xtensa processor in the AR3011 Radio-on-Chip for Mobile (ROCm) product. The Atheros AR3011 is a highly integrated, all-CMOS, single-chip Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR solution specifically designed for both laptop and desktop PCs. Designed for the smallest form factor, the AR3011 has a very power efficient architecture.
Atheros' AR3011 Radio-on-Chip Module for Bluetooth
Atheros is also using Xtensa processors in their AR6XXX line of ROCm WLAN for mobile solutions, including the AR6001XL and AR6001GL.
NuFront
Using Tensilica’s configurable processor technology, NuFront developed, and has gone into mass production with, a T-MMB (terrestrial-mobile multimedia broadcasting) mobile baseband DSP (digital signal processor). By watching mobile TV on a T-MMB phone, visitors at IIC China 2008 were able to experience NuFront’s technology in action. See press release.
SiBEAM, Inc., a leading innovator of millimeter wave (mmWave) solutions and developer of high-speed wireless communications platforms, is using Tensilica’s Xtensa® configurable processor for a baseband DSP in the wireless link for consumer electronics and display applications, such as HDTV. These applications demand high data rate transmission to multiple devices within an indoor wireless environment using conventional CMOS silicon. By optimizing the Xtensa processor into a tailored processor core, their products can attain the multi-gigabit performance these wireless applications demand.
WiLinx
WiLinx licensed the Xtensa LX2 configurable processor for its low-power True-UWB single chip CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) solutions. WiLinx True-UWB product offers 7 GHZ (from 3 to 10 GHz) of air spectrum as the key enabler for worldwide adoption of UWB into the cellular phone handsets, PCs, PC peripherals and CE (consumer electronics) devices.
“Following an in-depth technical analysis, we selected Tensilica’s Xtensa LX2 configurable processor core for our single chip low power True-UWB product families. The 7-GHz coverage of our solution unleashes the full capacities of the WiMedia based UWB solution to our customers. In particular it includes ‘above 6 GHz WiMedia bands,’ mandatory for Bluetooth-3.0 enabled devices,” stated Masoud Djafari, CEO and co-founder of WiLinx. “Tensilica’s easily configurable processor technology plays a key role in delivering the feature rich WiMedia protocol at low power and cost. It also makes the product more flexible for future upgrades.”
WiQuest Communications, Inc. has deployed the Xtensa configurable processor in WiQuest’s WQST110 ultrawideband (UWB) wireless USB chip design.
“We licensed the Xtensa processor because it was the lowest power processor on the market, which is essential for wireless designs,” stated Greg Christison, vice president of Engineering, WiQuest Communications. “We were also impressed with Tensilica’s automated capabilities for configuring the processor. Their tools made it very easy to select and employ just those features we needed for our design. The fact that the software tool chain automatically reflected all of the configuration features we picked was especially important.”
WiQuest is enabling the emerging multi-billion dollar UWB market with their WiMedia technology, which enables universal, high-speed, short-range wireless connectivity between many types of digital products. A single wireless UWB connection can replace the expensive and unsightly cables used to connect consumer entertainment and computing products, providing a simple and easy process to connect devices with each other. The WiQuest WQST110/101 chipset provides extremely high-performance streaming media and file transfers. It is the highest speed UWB product on the market, and fully supports the Certified Wireless USB specification. WiQuest provides the complete solution, including all required application software and drivers, and proven reference designs.
WiQuest's WQST110/101 Certified Wireless USB silicon is being used by Dell and Lenovo in their latest notebook PC products. Dell's Inspiron 1720 notebook and Lenovo's ThinkPad T61/T61p 15.4-inch widescreen notebook computers are part of the first wave of wireless USB platform certifications awarded by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF).
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Dell Inspiron 1720 |
Lenovo ThinkPad T61/T61p |
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Toshiba Portege R400 with Wireless USB |
Belkin's Wireless USB hubs and adapters |
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D-Link Wireless USB hubs and adapters |
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