NXP

This page covers the following companies: Systemonic → Philips → NXP

Timeline

 * 1999: Systemonic founded
 * 2003: Philips acquires Systemonic (802.11abg chipset)
 * 2006: Philips Wi-Fi assets are spun-off to NXP
 * 2015: NXP merged with Freescale (NXP and Freescale announce merger)
 * On the 2 March 2015, it was revealed that NXP will acquire Freescale


 * 2016: Qualcomm acquired NXP (Qualcomm to acquire NXP)

NXP Semiconductors

 * NXP Started as spinoff from Philips in 2006.
 * NXP home page: nxp.com

WiFi chipsets

 * TEF510x 802.11abgn and more...

SoC

 * PNX­8935 @400MHz Nexperia Media Processor (Roku)

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.

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
 * Systemonic Founded in 1999; acquired by Philips in 2003.


 * 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