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picoChip has announced the next version of its industry-standard WiMAX basestation reference design, with a software upgrade to support Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 and MIMO. It is the only base station reference design to support WiMAX Wave 2 and IO-MIMO, and scales from access point (femtocell) to sophisticated multisector carrier macrocells.

The PC8532 is used for WiMAX certification and the company claimed it has already demonstrated the widest range of interoperability with third-party terminals.

The PC8532 supports Wave 2 and IO-MIMO in uplink and downlink. Wave 2 is the latest version of the WiMAX standard, adding increased support for mobility, while MIMO (multi-input multi-output) increases data rate and reliability by simultaneously sending and receiving data by multiple antennas. The 2 x 2 MIMO system used in WiMAX significantly reduces CAPEX and OPEX for carriers, by increasing coverage and data -rate compared to other wireless technologies or to non-MIMO WiMAX. As a result, Wave 2 delivers maximum download and upload transmission speeds of 40 Mbps and 12 Mbps respectively.