Think small
CSR has launched what it describes as ‘the smallest and lowest cost Wi Fi silicon in the world’.
With a silicon size of less than 16mm-sq, CSR claims that the UniFi UF6000 range is the industry’s smallest 802.11n compatible device. The series is available in 0.5mm pitch wafer level chip scale packaging (WLCSP and can be adopted for chip on board designs.
The range is available in either 2.4GHz only or 2.4/5GHz.
Raj Gawera, CSR’s vice president, marketing, handset business unit said: “By combining Bluetooth, FM, GPS and keeping Wi Fi separate, we’ve managed to really optimise the size and performance of our Wi Fi design without making compromises to unnecessarily combine them onto a single chip. The proof of the benefits of our ‘smart integration’ approach is in the resulting devices – the combined silicon size of CSR’s BC7830 and UF6000 is just 27mm-sq.”
