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This page covers the following companies: Systemonic → Philips → NXP → Qualcomm
Philips
- Philips first offered WLAN RFIC's for use with other chipsets.
- It then developed its own 802.11b chipset, used in Philips 1st and 2nd generation.
- Later it acquired Systemonic in 2003 for its 802.11abg chipset,
- and started offering 802.11abg chipset based on Systemonic chipset/IP.
Timeline
- 1999: Systemonic founded.
- 2003: Philips acquires Systemonic (802.11abg chipset).
- 2006: Philips Wi-Fi assets are spun-off to NXP Semiconductors.
- 2015: NXP merged with Freescale (NXP and Freescale announce merger)
- 2016: Qualcomm acquired NXP (Qualcomm to acquire NXP).
Wireless LAN
MAC/BBP
(a)b(g)
| Chips (MAC/BB) |
Interface | PHY modes |
First seen (FCC) |
Notes | Adapters | ESystems | PR / PPage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA2443 | PCI | b | 802.11b 2.4GHz MAC/BB |
0 devices | 0 devices | ||
| SA5250 | PCI | abg | 2004-01-06 | 802.11abg 2.4/5GHz MAC/BB |
1 devices | 0 devices |
RFIC
(a)b(g)
| Chips (RFIC) |
Interface | PHY modes |
First seen (FCC) |
Notes | Adapters | ESystems | PR / PPage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA2400 | - | b | 2003-01-21 | 2.4GHz RF transceiver for 802.11 b applications |
54 devices | 18 devices | |
| SA2405 | - | b | 2.4GHz RF transceiver for 802.11 b applications |
0 devices | 0 devices | ||
| SA2420 | - | b | 2.4GHz RF transceiver for 802.11 b applications |
0 devices | 0 devices | ||
| SA2451 | - | bg | 2.4GHz RF transceiver for 802.11 b/g applications |
0 devices | 0 devices | ||
| SA5251 | - | abg | 2004-01-06 | 2.4/5GHz RF transceiver for 802.11 a/b/g applications |
1 devices | 0 devices |
RFIC Chips
Before 1st generation
- SA2400A - 2.4GHz Low-voltage RF transceiver, just a RFIC (ABE/BBE)
- Used with Wi-Fi chipsets from other vendors, such as ZyDAS ZD1201
- SA1630 - IF Quadrature transceiver
- Philips SA1630BE (LQFP-48)
- MA1021 - Low-voltage frequency synthesizer (900MHz/2GHz)
- Philips UMA1021M (BiCMOS, SSOP16)
First generation
- BGW100 RF SiP:
- SA2405 - RFIC transceiver (500nm BiCMOS)
- SA2411 - optional RFPA (+19dBm)
- SA2443 - MAC/BB 802.11b (180nm CMOS)
Second generation
- BGW200 - SiP 802.11b
- SA2420 - 2.4GHz Low-voltage RF transceiver (w/ LNA + mixer)
- Philips SA2420DH (TSSOP24)
Third generation
Philips third-generation Wi-Fi chipsets are basically relabeled Systemonic chipsets, after acquisition.
- SA5250 - MAC/BB 802.11abg
- SA5251 - 2.4G + 5G RFIC
- SA2451 - 2.4G-only RFIC
Systemonic
- Systemonic home page: systemonic.com
- HiperSonic 1 - first generation - 802.11a + HiperLAN/2
- (unsuccessful WLAN standard, PHY similar to 802.11a)
- H01 - Baseband Processor
- Tondelayo chipset - second generation - 802.11abg
- SBB1001 - MAC/BB
- SRF1001 - RFIC
Philips SoCs
Poseidon
The Poseidon family of SoCs was originally developed by Philips then transfered over to NXP.
- PR31100 is a single-chip, low-cost, integrated embedded processor.
- PR31100 consists of a 40MHz R3000 3.3V static CMOS CPU with 4K Instruction/1K Data cache memory, without MMU,
- multiple DMA channels and a high-performance and flexible Bus Interface Unit (BIU) and external I/O modules.
- PR31500 - Poseidon v1.0
- PR31500 is a 37MHz R3000 3.3V static CMOS CPU with R3000A TLB and 4K Instrution/1K Data cache.
- PR31500 also contains multi-channel DMA controller, ROM, Flash, RAM, DRAM, SDRAM, SRAM,
- and PCMCIA controller and Dual-UART, SPI and High-speed serial interface controllers.
- Philips licensed a version of Toshiba's R3900 MIPS RISC processor core for the PR31500.
- • TwoChipPIC chipset consists of the PR31500 microcontroller and the UCB1100 analog interface chip.
- The UCB1100 provides a 12-bit audio codec and a 14-bit modem codec, a touchscreen interface,
- and a 10-bit A/D converter for measuring battery voltages and other analog inputs.
- PR31700 - Poseidon v1.5
- The PR31700 is a 75MHz R3000 (PR3901 Processor Core) with MMU, 4K Instruction/1K Data cache.
- PR31700 also contains multi-channel DMA controller, ROM, Flash, RAM, DRAM, SDRAM, SRAM, and
- PCMCIA controller. It is also identical to the Toshiba 3912 processor from the TX39XX family.
- It is pretty clear that Philips licensed or bought this core directly from Toshiba.
- • The TwoChipPIC Plus chipset consists of Philips PR31700 and UCB1200 analog chip.
- The datasheet can be found here
