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AR2417 Product Overview

Introducing Atheros’ AR2417, the industry’s most integrated single-chip IEEE 802.11b/g WLAN solution designed for Mini-PCI and CardBus designs.  The AR2417, the newest member of Atheros’ family of AR5007 single-chip  solutions offers significant enhancements over the previous generation AR5005G, Atheros’ most popular-selling chip family to date. This new design reduces the total solution cost by integrating the 802.11b/g media access controller (MAC), baseband processor, 2.4GHz radio, low noise amplifier (LNA), power amplifier (PA) and selected RBOM components onto a low-cost, digital CMOS chip. With this high level of integration, the AR2417 significantly reduces the total BOM and manufacturing costs of mini-PCI and CardBus 802.11b/g products, compared to current generation solutions. The AR2417 is ideal for enabling carrier gateway designs with low-cost, wireless connectivity and for CardBus applications.

The AR2417 supports industry standard 802.11b, 802.11g, security and QoS. Full reference design support is available.

AR2417 Solution Highlights

• Highly integrated, lowest cost 802.11b/g WLAN solution for Mini-PCI and CardBus designs

• Integrated WLAN MAC and baseband processing engine

• WLAN radio operates from 2.300-2.500GHz

• Integrated power and low noise amplifiers (PA and LNA)

• Innovative 2-layer mini-PCI design offers the industry’s smallest form
  factor with half the height of existing solutions

• Eliminates all IF filters and most RF filters; no external voltage controlled
  oscillators (VCOs) or surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters needed

• Integrated analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters

• Lower passive component count

• Requires only one external 3.3V power supply

• Compliant with IEEE 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11d, 802.11e and 802.11i

• Supports Atheros JumpStart for Wireless™ secure configuration tool

• Available in lead-free RoHS compliant packaging