New chip expands wireless LAN area, speed
updated 08:35 am EDT, Tue June 5, 2001
Texas Instruments has announced a new wireless LAN chip which will be available for use in reference designs for PC card, mini-PCI and USB devices. The new chip claims to increase WLAN coverage area by 70 percent versus competitive solutions in real life environments as a "result of a 30 percent linear reach improvement.
"..the ACX100 [chip] is firmware upgradable, which facilitates support of evolving IEEE standards such as the forthcoming 802.11e (quality of service) and 802.11i (security enhancements). The device is fully compatible with the IEEE 802.11b standard and also supports a 22Mbit/sec high rate mode that doubles the throughput over today's existing 802.11b networks."
