IEEE 802.11ax MAC/PHY for STA

Overview

IEEE 802.11ax is a Wireless Local Area Network standard in the IEEE 802.11 set of specifications. It is also labelled as Wi-Fi 6 by Wi-Fi Alliance. IEEE 802.11ax is designed to operate in the already existing 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz spectrums. In addition to utilizing MIMO and MU-MIMO, the new amendment introduces OFDMA to improve overall spectral efficiency.
Under Development and implementation by Comsis, the IP addresses all industrial IoT markets including M2M markets. This is accomplished by a combination of enhanced MAC and PHY implementations including reduced contention, Power Saving Mode, OFDMA with advanced signal processing techniques to cope with new IoT use cases. This IP will complete Comsis IPs portfolio (802.11a/b/g/n/i/e/p/ah).
The IP with its enhanced security extension will be is dedicated to Robotics and Factory 4.0.
Thanks to a Reference User Manual, a Reference design documentation, FPGA/microcontroller synthesis and simulation scripts, AD RF daughter card and Avnet SoC dev board, the IP is easy to install and handle.

Key Features

Wireless standard 20MHz IEEE 802.11 ax STA
PHY Features
- 20 MHz channel width
- OFDM and OFDMA mode
- Scrambling
- Padding
- FEC coding
- Interleaving
- iFFT/FFT
- Single spatial stream (1x1 SISO)
- Modulation Coding Schemes (MCS): 0,…,9
- Modulation: BPSK,…, 256QAM
- Timing and frequency synchronizations
- Channel estimation & compensation
- Data Rates (Mbps): up to 114,7Mbit/s
- Full integration with AD RF Front end
- Processing clock: 80MHz
MAC Features
- Mandatory MAC for STA
- PHY Interface
- IEEE802.11e standard (QoS)
- IEEE802.11i standard (Security)
- IEEE802.11 standard a/b/g/n

Benefits

SoC architecture
Scalable solution
On demand customization available
Hardware Agnostic IP

Applications

Power Sensitive Applications
- Digital camera
- Wearable
- Digital audio display
- SmartHome
- Industrial Sensor in factory 4.0
- Entry market smart phones and tablets.

Deliverables

Fully synthesizable RTL VHDL-Verilog code
C code
Documents (user guide, reference manual)
Self-checking PHY Testbench configured by testcases / verification specification
Support

Technical Specifications

Availability

3 months

TSMC

Pre-Silicon: 28nm HPCP

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