Ralink licenses core for wireless duties

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Dec 8, 2005

Taiwan-based Ralink Technology Corp has licensed the MIPS32 4KEc core to develop high-performance low-cost solutions for wireless access points.

Taiwan-based Ralink Technology Corp has licensed the MIPS32 4KEc core to develop high-performance low-cost solutions for wireless access points.

Ralink chose the MIPS32 4KEc core for its performance and cost advantages, and ease of use.

The synthesisable 4KEc core, a member of the MIPS32 4KE core family, gives licensees the flexibility to optimise applications for performance, size or power consumption, thereby reducing overall system costs.

The 4KE core family delivers 1.53DMIPS/MHz performance in an area as small as 1.0mm2 in a 0.13um TSMC process.

Licensees of the 4KEc core are broadly supported by a robust software ecosystem of operating systems, middleware, algorithms and tools for embedded applications, including wireless networking, where the MIPS architecture has long been a leader.

"We chose the MIPS 4KEc processor core because it is highly configurable and synthesisable".

"It enables us flexibility to meet our high-throughput, extended range, power efficient design goals and deliver the high-performance next generation WLAN chipsets that our customers desire", said Rick Jeng, Executive Vice President at Ralink Technology.

"In addition, we were very pleased throughout the entire design, verification and layout processes".

"Based on this experience and due to the success of our MIMO XRTM design and development effort, we would certainly collaborate with MIPS Technologies on future products".

"Inexpensive, feature-rich wireless LAN products for consumers and businesses is a market in which the MIPS architecture excels, and we are delighted that Ralink has chosen to take advantage of it", said Brad Holtzinger, Vice President of Worldwide Sales for MIPS Technologies.

"We welcome Ralink to our community of licensees and look forward to working with them to advance the design of wireless networking solutions".