The global IoT industry chain is accelerating, and the number of 'connections' will grow exponentially. It is expected that 19.31 billion network terminals will be built in the next five years, bringing connectivity, applications, and multiple values of data. At the same time, China will become the largest market. It is expected that China will become the world's largest Internet of Things connection market by 2022. The total number of terminals will reach 4.48 billion, including 1.13 billion LPWA.
LPWA is the resonance point between current technology and market. NB-IoT will become the mainstream connection solution. LPWA is widely used. It is expected that the scale of China market will exceed 15 billion yuan in 2022, and the cost and power consumption advantages of NB-IoT in application are obvious.
For IoT applications, low power consumption is more important than ever before. There are many reasons why, for a simple example, installing certain metering or environmental monitoring devices in inaccessible places (such as waterways) can maintain long-term working conditions. , It will save huge operation and maintenance costs. At the same time, taking into account the massive demand, the cost of the Internet of Things is also very critical, the key to reduce costs is how to achieve high integration, challenges and opportunities in this area coexist, these problems also bring communication technology Innovative opportunities.
The Wings will seize this opportunity and will soon release the first ultra-low-power NB-IoT chip with monolithic integrated CMOS PA. It leads the development trend of globally highly integrated and ultra-low power NB chips.
First of all, the highest level of integration is achieved in the world. This chip integrates CMOS PA, RF transceiver, power management, baseband, microprocessor, etc. It is the only NB-IoT chip integrating RF PA in the world, which greatly reduces the cost and development of the module. Complexity. At the same time provides a very small size, especially useful for applications such as wearable.
As we all know, the on-chip integration of CMOS PA on the SoC is a world-class problem. The integration of RF PAs, because high-power emission will affect other circuits in the chip, such as inductive coupling caused by pulling affect the work of the PLL, and how to solve these problems, the source Accumulation of technology from core wing core team and in-depth understanding of NB.
Secondly, this chip realizes ultra-low power consumption: Supports various power modes such as deep sleep, normal sleep, standby, low-power operation, etc., in which the currents in the deep-sleep state (PSM) and the receiver state are all mainstream commercial products. 1/3.
In addition, the chip is highly flexible. It uses a software-defined radio (SDR) architecture and can flexibly support the optimization of physical layer receiver algorithms to meet the standard upgrade and fragmented IoT private network communication needs. The chip also integrates a variety of peripheral interfaces such as UART, I2C, SPI, uSim, and GPIO.
Core Wing Information Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. The core wing was established by Dr. Xiao Jianhong in Zhangjiang, Pudong, Shanghai, in March 2017. He focuses on the SoC chip R&D for the Internet of Things. Dr. Xiao Jianhong graduated from Peking University in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in microelectronics and went to study in the United States. In 2007, he obtained it from Texas A&M University. Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering. During his tenure at Broadcom, Dr. Shaw was one of the few Senior Principal Scientists of the young generation. He has led Broadcom’s leadership in the development of a wide variety of broadband RF transceiving systems. One hundred million U.S. dollars.
Dr. Shaw attracted a group of scientists from the United States Broadcom, Qualcomm, Maxlinear, and domestic Huawei, Spreadtrum and other world-leading chip R & D capabilities, profound understanding of the SoC design involves a number of technical areas, the industry's average working life of more than 10 years. At this stage, NB-IoT chip R&D focused on low-power wide area communication applications can be widely used in smart cities, smart homes, industrial Internet, asset tracking, wearable and other fields. The development goal of Wings is to become a communication technology. Core IoT terminal SoC world-class manufacturers.