Marvell launches 'Mobile MIMO' Wi Fi solution
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 17 February 2011, 02:26 IST
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Bangalore: Marvell, integrated silicon solutions provider, announces the Avastar 88W8797, an 802.11n 2x2 dual-band Wi-Fi System-on-Chip (SoC) which is designed to support high data rates for next-generation mobile devices. The Avastar 88W8797 comes equipped with Wi-Fi Tx beamforming technology. It also supports Bluetooth 4.0 low energy capabilities that allows communication with a new breed of mobile devices, including body sensors for personal health monitoring and remote controls for home automation and other applications. This is the industry's first high-performance multiple inputs multiple output (MIMO) combination radio with advanced power management designed specifically for handheld products such as smartphones and tablets. Weili Dai, Marvell's Co-Founder said "As the promise of seamless connectivity fast becomes a reality, Wi-Fi provides a common link across many different mobile devices. The Avastar 88W8797 represents a breakthrough for our industry: for the very first time the powerful performance of MIMO technology is now available and practical for mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. By integrating multiple cutting-edge technologies and several low-power radios into a single system-on-a-chip, the Avastar solution ushers in an exciting new era in mobile computing and communications. Marvell's new Mobile MIMO technology improves the poor wireless performance, which was in first generation tablets, by adding a second transceiver in a true MIMO configuration. Avastar 88W8797 can double the performance of today's mobile products using Wi-Fi data rates up to 300 MBPS. It enables new high bandwidth media applications regardless of the device's spatial orientation and allows flexibility in the placement of two antennas on the device, robust performance is ensured even if one antenna is partially or completely obstructed. Marvell will be demonstrating the Avastar 88W8797 in Barcelona at Mobile world Congress (MWC) 2011.