Broadcom Corp. has rolled out the industry first Wi-Fi chipset that supports the high-speed PCI Express bus architecture, said the company.

PCI Express uses serial interconnect technology to deliver higher bit rates that are better suited for performance-intensive multimedia applications along with offering greater scalability, due to its low-cost, low pin-count design and software compatibility with existing PCI infrastructure, Broadcom explained.

Broadcom¡¦s BCM4311 PCI Express-enabled 802.11a/g baseband processor contains a media access controller (MAC) in a CMOS design and is aimed at wireless-enabled notebook PCs, printers and other client devices.

The company also said the processor offers all of the benefits of the PCI Express bus architecture, along with BroadRange technology, a digital signal processing technique that allows devices based on 54g technology to stay connected at distances up to 50 percent farther from a wireless router than previous generation solutions.

The BCM4311 is now sampling and expected to ship in production volumes in Q3.

By: DocMemory
Copyright © 2023 CST, Inc. All Rights Reserved