802.11be (Wi-Fi 7) 2x2 MAC & Modem AP

Overview

The Ceva-Waves Wi-Fi IP family offers a comprehensive suite of IPs and platforms for embedding Wi-Fi connectivity into SoCs/ASSPs addressing a broad range of applications.

The Ceva-Waves Wi-Fi 7 AP 2x2 160MHz IP is a high performance Wi-Fi 7 MAC & modem solution optimized for access points and getaways. This is the industry’s smallest footprint and lowest power but high performance Wi-Fi IP compliant with 802.11be (Wi-Fi 7) 2x2 160MHz AP.

The Ceva-Waves Wi-Fi 7 AP IP consist of 802.11be (Wi-Fi 7) MAC and modem, in 2x2 MIMO configuration. It is provided with LMAC+UMAC (aka FullMAC) software protocol stack, and an integration-ready processor and operating-system- agnostic platform, simplifying deployment in SoC/ASSP designs. The Wi-Fi software protocol stack can be executed on any processor such as ARM, ARC, RISC-V and others.

The Ceva-Waves Wi-Fi 7 AP platform can be used in a standalone single chip or integrated into a bigger System on Chip (SoC) such as application processor.

For more comprehensive solution, the Ceva-Waves Wi-Fi 7 AP IP is well complemented with Ceva-Waves Bluetooth and Ceva-Waves UWB IPs.

Silicon independent, the Ceva-Waves Wi-Fi 7 AP IP supports several radio IPs from various partners. Other RF can be easily supported on customer demand.

Key Features

802.11be (Wi-Fi 7) MAC:
- The Ceva-waves Wi-Fi 7 MAC core implements the Wi-Fi 7 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be) 2x2 160MHz standard with data rates of up to 5.76 Gbit/s for MLO configuration with 2 simultaneous links. It also supports the 802.11e standard (QoS) and the 802.11i standard (Security) extensions.
- Ceva's profound expertise in wireless communications resulted in the highly optimized MAC core with special focus on high performance. The MAC core interfaces to the ARM standard AMBA bus.
802.11be (Wi-Fi 7) Modem:
- The Ceva-waves Wi-Fi 7 AP hardwired modem core is available for use with the Ceva-waves Wi-Fi 7 AP MAC IP to form high performance and cost effective 802.11be (Wi-Fi 7) access point solution.
- The supported features are:
  - Modulation Coding Schemes (MCS) from 0 to 13 (4K QAM)
  - 20MHz, 40MHz, 80MHz and 160MHz bandwidths
  - 2x2 MU-MIMO uplink and downlink
  - 2x2 MU-OFDMA uplink and downlink
  - Scrambling
  - FEC coding, Viterbi & LDPC encoding/decoding
  - Interleaving
  - FFT
  - Timing, phase and frequency synchronization
  - Channel estimation & compensation
  - Reference digital front end with filtering, radio controller and software defined AGC/CCA state machine for highest flexibility

Benefits

high performance
easiness of integration
Available configurations supporting MLO with 1, 2, 3 links

Block Diagram

Applications

Access point, gateway

Deliverables

hardware: verilog RTL, testbench, compilation, simulation and synthesis scripts
software: C
documents
test tool running on Windows

Technical Specifications

Foundry, Node

any

Maturity

In Production

Availability

Available

TSMC

Pre-Silicon: 40nm LP

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