MIPS Products

Data Conversion

Data conversion is virtually everywhere and will continue to be ever more ubiquitous in communications and consumer electronic devices. Continued growth in communications and consumer electronics is driving developers to provide constant innovation, higher performance, smaller geometries, extended battery life, and a richer feature set. Developers must provide higher levels of SoC integration in deep submicron technologies in the wired and wireless domains.

MIPS Technologies provides seamless integration of hard macros onto SoCs, backed by engineer-to-engineer support, with more than 11 years' experience designing data conversion IP cores, mainly for consumer electronics and communications applications. MIPS offers a complete portfolio of silicon-proven IP from single blocks to complete analog-front-end (AFE) solutions for mWiMax/Wibro (WMAN) and WiFi (WLAN); UWB for wireless USB, WiMedia, other WPAN networks, video or data communications; Blu-ray DiskTM storage, touch screen interface, Rx path of digital TV broadcast, Rx path in set-top boxes, analog video interfaces, modems and satellite receivers.

TECHNOLOGY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) from very high-speed to medium and low-speed with different architectures targeting different applications; extremely compact and low power; silicon-proven designs include IQADC technology for mobile TV; expertise recognized by ISSCC
  • Digital-to-analog converters (DACs) - very compact and high-speed for video and communications; silicon-proven designs on mature platforms
  • AFE for wireless broadband communications mWiMax/Wibro (WMAN) and WiFi (WLAN) is feature rich and complete, compact and low-power to ease SoC integration; support for multiple standards including 802.11x and 802.16e in deep submicron technologies and multiple foundries; internal reference generation for reduced BOM using MIPS' cutting-edge high-performance/low-power pipeline ADC and current steering DAC technology
  • Video AFE - technology solutions are silicon-proven with extremely compact designs, available in deep submicron technologies; based on MIPS' extensive experience designing AFEs for broadband wireless communications in a wide range of process nodes and foundries
  • Touch screen controllers are silicon-proven and highly compact, supporting different screen types and battery powered (portable) applications with very low power dissipation and low power modes; excellent performance; internal reference generation for reduced BOM