Highly Integrated Solutions Provide Superior Range and the Industry's Highest Throughput for WLAN Applications
September 15, 2003 - As a key element of the company's vision of wireless connectivity in the home, office and on-the-go, Royal Philips Electronics announced highly integrated, high-performance two-chip solutions for 802.11a/g and 802.11g wireless local area network (WLAN) applications. The complete Philips WLAN solutions enable high-speed 802.11a/g or 802.11g wireless networking for data and streaming media, providing excellent range and the industry's highest standards-based data throughput. Target applications include WLAN adapter cards, access points, gateways, PCs, PC peripherals and consumer electronic devices.The Philips dual-mode 802.11a/g chipset combines a single-chip multi-protocol baseband/Media Access Controller (SA5250) with a single-chip RF transceiver (SA5251) for a complete subsystem for IEEE 802.11a and 802.11b/g frequency bands. By supporting 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and the 4.9 GHz band used in Japan, the chipset is ideally suited for worldwide use.
With its built-in "detect and connect" functionality that automatically moves to the highest speed connection available (802.11 a, g or b), the Philips 802.11a/g solution gives users the ability to roam freely between 802.11 networks. The chipset offers excellent range of up to 150 meters at 11 Megabits per second (Mbps) via 802.11b, up to 100 meters at 54 Mbps via 802.11g and up to 70 meters at 54 Mbps via 802.11a.
Evaluation KitsPhilips offers complete evaluation kits for the 802.11a/g and 802.11g chipsets that include: MiniPCI and CardBus reference designs, software drivers for Windows 2000TM, Windows XPTM, LinuxTM and pSOSTM operating systems and a graphical user interface. The chipsets are also supported with a complete set of production test utilities and diagnostic tools.
AvailabilityPhilips 802.11a/g and 802.11g chipsets are currently sampling to lead customers and will be available in production quantities in Q4 2003.
