What are Maxlinear Inc's Business Segments?
Our products are integrated into a wide range of electronic devices, including
cable, terrestrial, and satellite video set-top boxes and gateways, cable DOCSIS
data and voice gateways, hybrid analog and digital televisions, smartphones, direct
broadcast satellite outdoor units, optical modules for data center, metro, and
long-haul transport network applications, RF transceivers and modem solutions
for wireless carrier infrastructure applications, wireline connectivity devices
for in-home networking applications and last-mile broadband access, and power
management and interface products for enterprise networking, infrastructure, industrial,
and multi-market applications.
We provide our customers with guidelines, known as reference designs, so that
they can efficiently use our products in their product designs. We currently provide
the following types of semiconductors:
RF Receivers. These semiconductor products combine RF receiver technology that
traditionally required multiple external discrete components, such as very high
frequency, or VHF, and ultra-high frequency, or UHF, tracking filters, surface
acoustic wave, or SAW, filters, intermediate-frequency, or IF, amplifiers, low
noise amplifiers and transformers. All of these external components have been
either eliminated or integrated into a single semiconductor produced entirely
in standard CMOS process technology.
RF Receiver SoCs. These semiconductor products combine the functionality of RF
receivers, and demodulators in a single chip. In some configurations, these products
may incorporate multiple RF receivers and single or multiple demodulators in a
single chip to provide application or market specific solutions to customers.
Wireless Infrastructure Backhaul RF Receivers and Modem SoC's. These semiconductor
products reside in wireless operator system deployments to enable communication
between various metro network rings. The RF receiver is capable of receiving and
transmitting signals spanning 5-45 GHz and passes the signal to the back-end modem
device, which modulates one or more carrier wave signals to encode digital information
for transmission and demodulate signals to decode the transmitted information.
The increasing amounts of data and video content being consumed on mobile devices
are creating new opportunities for innovative and efficient modem and RF receiver
SoCs.
Laser Modulator Drivers. These semiconductor products reside in optical modules
and provide a constant current source that delivers exactly the current to the
laser diode that it needs to operate for a particular application
Transimpedance Amplifiers. These semiconductor products reside in optical modules
and provide current-to-voltage conversion, converting the low-level current of
a sensor to a voltage.
Clock and Data Recovery Circuits. These semiconductor products generate a clock
from an approximate frequency reference, and then phase-aligns to the transitions
in the data stream with a phase-locked loop, or PLL.
Interface solutions. These differentiated bridging connectivity products include
USB, ethernet, PCIe, as well as UARTs, and serial transceiver devices which serve
data and telecommunications, networking and storage, industrial control and embedded
applications and facilitate and optimize the interface between systems and across
networks.
Power Management. These DC/DC voltage conversion and supervision products are
designed to support the needs of various infrastructure, broadband, industrial
and embedded system applications, including traditional linear, switching power
management solutions and universal PMICs. Our proprietary and patented programmable
power technology enables customers to reduce product development cycles, provides
a flexible and configurable solution for control of critical attributes of the
power management system and enables the system architect to design products that
significantly reduce wasted energy.
Data encryption and compression. These products offer some of the industry's lowest
noise and distortion amplifiers and lowest power consumption high speed analog-to-digital
converters, or ADCs. They include instrumentation, low noise, high speed and hybrid
amplifiers, as well as high speed ADCs and digital-to-analog converters. Our amplifier
and data converter products are designed to meet the needs of various industrial,
medical, and video applications.
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