Coresonic AB has announced the first of a series of complete hardware solutions which will allow semiconductor manufacturers to quickly and cost-effectively implement WiMax functionality into their semiconductor devices. The new WiMax ‘personality pack’, provides complete IEEE802.16 functionality, from the RF interface through to the central processor interface.

At ISSCC 2008 in San Francisco, Dr Anders Nilsson and Professor Dake Liu of the Linköping University in Sweden and also co-founders of Coresonic outline a programmable baseband processor architecture that forms the basis of Coresonic’s commercially available LeoCore semiconductor IP which is optimized for WiMAX and 4G wireless modems