Freescale and Marvell Partner on Cellular - WiFi Convergence

Freescale Semiconductor and Marvell announced plans to offer WLAN solutions for mobile devices, such as mobile handsets, smartphones and entertainment devices. Freescale customers will receive Marvell's IEEE 802.11 reference designs, ICs, software and tools to simplify customer development and time-to-market. Freescale offers its 3G Innovative Convergence and EDGE Mobile Extreme Convergence platforms, as well as i.MX applications processor family. Marvell has a multi-mode, lower power IEEE 802.11 product line enabling connectivity using 802.11b, 802.11g or 802.11a/b/g.


Marvell is currently offering an 802.11 reference design for use with the Freescale Semiconductor Mobile Extreme Convergence (MXC) and i.300 3G platforms, as well as the i.MX family of applications processors.

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