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2005
Journal Article
Titel
Wireless high speed - made easy
Abstract
The market of portable applications grows inexorably. It expands into each area of the daily live and the industry. Computing and communication converge ever more strongly. Especially the symbiosis of computing and communication places however the design engineers before always new challenges. It makes great demands on designing at different fields of activities. On the one hand applications require i.e. more functionality, longer operation time, smaller form factor, robustness and reliability. Therefore computing capacity and performance as well as packaging density will be increased drastically. Progressive low power architectures will be used too. On the other hand system design engineers have to integrate powerful communication interfaces for uncompromising high speed data transfer. Wireless communication is the centre of attention thereby. But how will the implementation be realised, without injuring system specification, without increasing time and costs for development as well as for acquiring specialised knowledge and placing the new product at the right time on the market? This article focuses on progressive strategies for the implementation of powerful communication interfaces to accelerate and to simplify the design process for design engineers of portable systems. These strategies base on fully configurable and reusable protocol stack IPs. So the design engineers have the possibility to adapt the protocol stack IP by the use of an automatic configuration utility. Adaptable characteristics are i.e. data rate, functionality, flexibility, hardware/software partitioning and power consumption. Exemplarily these strategies are shown at a new high speed 16 Mbit/s IrDA protocol stack IP.