Siemens

Company:
Siemens

Product Name:
WayMAX Base Station

Product Type:
WiMAX Base Station

Altera Products Chosen:
Nios^® II Processors
Quartus^® II Software
Stratix^® II FPGAs
Code: DSP Solutions

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Stratix II FPGAs and Nios II Processors Enable Siemens to Address Dynamic WiMAX Market

Siemens spa Italy selected Altera's Stratix II FPGAs and Nios II embedded processors to develop their WayMAX basestation. WayMAX leverages the flexibility, performance, and time-to-market of Altera's programmable logic to address the emerging broadband wireless access market, while providing a path to support future WiMAX standards without costly upgrades.

The dynamic nature of today's wireless broadband market demands that Siemens use solutions which meet the most rigorous technical requirements while delivering the flexibility to adapt to changing standards and market conditions. Altera's Stratix II FPGAs and Nios II processors provide Siemens with the best performance, the ability to integrate off-the-shelf processors and other discrete devices, and the shortest development time, making them the ideal choice for their WayMAX base stations. Additionally, having access to Altera's HardCopy^® II ASICs provide Siemens with an attractive, low-risk path to reducing the cost of their solution.

WayMAX is Siemens' end-to-end WiMAX solution. It employs non-line of sight orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technology that complies with the IEEE 802.16 specifications developed by the WiMAX Forum for wireless high-speed internet access. OFDM technology, which protects wireless broadband transmissions against interference from echoes and multipathing, requires high-performance digital signal processing (DSP) functions. Siemens selected Altera^® Stratix II devices as the best programmable logic choice to deliver these functions.

In addition, the reconfigurability of Altera devices enables Siemens to offer their customers remote network upgrades without hardware replacement. This advantage allows the WayMAX solution to support the latest standards as they are approved, further demonstrating Siemens' ability to offer some of the world's first standards-compliant WiMAX radio networks to fixed and mobile network operators.