Specialty Communications and Wireless Chips

Specialty communications and wireless chips are specialty or proprietary products and accessories related to communications, wireless and telecommunications chip products. Specialty communications and wireless chips include wireless fidelity of WiFi chips used in Ethernet and broadband connectivity and WiMAX chips for microwave frequency access.

Specialty communications and wireless chips include all kinds of WiFi chips, WiMAX chips, and other wireless chips that adhere to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standard for WiFi, and the IEEE 802.16 standard for WiMAX. The IEEE 802.11 standard is a family of wireless communication standards that were developed to define transmission criteria for the production of a wireless chip. There are different IEEE 802.11 standards depending on the speed and frequency of the WiFi chip. For example, chips that adhere to the 802.11b standard are typically 1 and 2 Mbps chips, while specialty communications and wireless chips that adhere to the 802.11a or 802.11g standard are faster, up to 54 Mbps. A WiMAX chip is based on the 802.16 WiMAX standard and is designed to extend local wireless networks across greater distances.

Specialty communications and wireless chips are used in all kinds of networking and telecommunications devices, from single-line analog modems to wireless routers and access points. Specialty communications chips are used for local area network (LAN) connectivity in home offices, small businesses and corporate workplaces. A specialty communications chip may also be designed for use in telecommunication devices, such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDA). Specialty communications chips used in routers are often built using MIPS architecture. MIPS is an acronym for microprocessor without interlocked pipeline stages. Communication chip designers use MIPS architecture because it offers a clean instruction set. Other specialty communications and wireless chips include asynchronous chips that can be used in battery-operated devices. Since asynchronous communication chips don’t use power to manage an internal clock like synchronous chips do, they are useful in low-power applications.

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