Complementing Ralink’s existing product lines for the PC OEM, retail, broadband and stationary consumer electronics market segments, Ralink’s new mobile offerings complete the company’s portfolio of Wi-Fi solutions which now cover all major market segments for Wi-Fi semiconductors.

The RT3180 and RT3680 are highly integrated 2.4GHz and dual-band 802.11n WLAN chips for high performance portable consumer electronics wireless applications that require mobility, connectivity and range, said Ralink.

According to the company, the RT3180 and RT3680 integrate a host of mobile specific functionality including high-performance power amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, and various other front-end components that enable low-cost and small form-factor designs for portable consumer electronics applications such as digital camcorders, digital cameras, mobile gaming platforms, and tablet PCs.

An integrated power management unit further reduces external component count while enabling support for advanced low power states, making these solutions ideal for compact battery-powered mobile devices. Embedded processors offload all 802.11n related functions including support for wake on wireless LAN.

The RT8180 is a low cost, single chip Wi-Fi solution architected specifically for mobile phone applications. This device contains a 150Mbps 802.11n media access controller (MAC) and baseband, a high-performance 19dBm 2.4GHz radio and power amplifier, a low noise amplifier, an integrated transmit/receive switch with support for 2-antenna diversity that improves range and reliability, a mobile-centric SDIO 2.0 interface, integrated RAM and ROM memory, and an embedded power management unit.

The Ralink RT3180 and RT3680 are now sampling to mobile consumer electronics manufacturers, and will be followed by samples of the RT8180 to handset manufacturers in the first quarter of 2011.

David Borison, vice president of marketing at Ralink Technology, said: “Ralink’s deep portfolio of semiconductors, along with our technology innovations in size, power consumption and performance are a perfect fit for today’s ultra-compact and high-performance mobile devices.”

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