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MediaTek Launches Filogic 860 & Filogic 360 WiFi 7 Chipsets for Mainstream BE7200 Routers and Clients

MediaTek has introduced two new WiFi 7 chipsets, the Filogic 860 and Filogic 360, targeting mainstream routers and client devices. The Filogic 860 features a tri-core Arm Cortex-A73 SoC designed for up to BE7200 routers and gateways, while the Filogic 360 is a WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 chip designed for smartphones, PCs, laptops, set-top boxes, and OTT streaming boxes, offering up to 2.9 Gbps bandwidth.

The Filogic 860 and Filogic 360 chipsets provide more cost-effective alternatives to the previously introduced Filogic 880 SoC for up to BE36000 routers and Filogic 380 clients chip, which can achieve up to 6.5 Gbps PHY data rate.

MediaTek Filogic 860 Specifications:

  • CPU – 3x Arm Cortex-A73 cores clocked at up to 1.8 GHz
  • Network Processing Unit (NPU) – Hardware QoS acceleration and Tunneling Offload Engine for VLAN / PPTP / L2TP / GRE
  • Networking Crypto engine (EIP-197) – For IPv4 NATP / IPv6 / DS-Lite / 6RD acceleration
  • Memory I/F – DDR3, DDR4
  • Storage I/F – SPI-NOR, SPI-NAND, eMMC, SD
  • Networking
    • Wi-Fi 7 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be)
      • Up to 7.2 Gbps (BE7200) PHY performance
      • Tri-band support – 2.4GHz, 5GHz, 6GHz
      • Key Features – BW40 (2.4Ghz), BW160 (5/6GHz), 4096-QAM, MLO, MRU, and AFC
      • Antenna – 4×4 (2.4GHz) + 5×5 (5/6GHz); Filogic Xtra range to boost receiving distance using an extra antenna
    • Ethernet
      • 1x 10GbE (USXGMII)
      • 1x 2.5GbE PHY
      • 4x 1GbE interfaces
  • USB – 2x USB 3.2 up to 5 Gbps each
  • PCIe – PCIe 3.0 up to 10 Gbps
  • Other I/Os – UART, SPI, PWM, GPIO and OTP

The Filogic 860 is expected to be used in WiFi 7 enterprise access points, service provider Ethernet gateways, mesh nodes, retail routers, and IoT router applications. Although software support details are not provided, MediaTek is likely to offer support for Linux-based distributions such as OpenWrt and/or Debian.

MediaTek Filogic 360 Specifications:

  • Wi-Fi
    • Wi-Fi 7 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be)
    • Tri-band – 2.4GHz, 5GHz, 6GHz
    • Antenna – 2×2 triple-band
    • Max Throughput – Up to 2.9Gbps
    • Wi-Fi 7 Features – Up to 160MHz BW, 4096-QAM, Hybrid MLO (eMLSR), MRU
  • Bluetooth Dual 5.4, LE Audio
  • MediaTek Bluetooth and Wi-Fi coexistence technology
  • Single chip with RF, Baseband, MAC, iFEM
  • Host interface – PCI Express 2.1 or USB 3.0

The MediaTek Filogic 860 and Filogic 360 WiFi 7 chipsets are currently available for sampling to customers, with mass production scheduled for mid-2024. Therefore, routers, gateways, and client devices utilizing these new chips are expected to hit the market in the second half of 2024. More information can be found on the respective product pages and in the press release.

Source: CNX Software – Embedded Systems News.

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