MANHASSET, NY -- Xilinx, Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of Modesat Communications to complement the company's own wireless mobile backhaul solutions provider.
The total acquisitions buy amount has not been revealed.
Modesat Communications was founded in 2005 in Tallinn, Estonia and specializes in the development of backhaul modem solutions for microwave, E-band and NLOS (non-line of sight) markets. The company has fifteen employees, who will be joining Xilinx as part of the Xilinx Communications Business Unit. Modesat offices in Tallinn and San Diego, Calif. will continue operations.
Modesat IP solutions are highly optimized algorithmic implementations designed from the ground up targeting FPGA silicon. Modesat’s patented technology has been validated by customers and designed into multiple customer backhaul systems. Their IP solutions cover the complete wireless mobile backhaul requirements for wireless single-carrier PHY, packet processing and connectivity (eNet) capabilities.
Modesat’s IP cores and the existing Xilinx signal processing and packet processing IP cores will be targeting Xilinx All Programmable FPGAs and Zynq-7000 SoCs to gain accelerated design productivity.
“The main characteristics of the mobile backhaul equipment market have changed little in the last year with certainly IP/Ethernet being the primary driver. Mobile operators and backhaul transport providers are investing heavily in IP, which in turn is helping push the equipment market in total,” stated Michael Howard, principal analyst for carrier networks at Infonetics Research. “The move to IP as the basic technology of LTE (and WiMAX) is growing no matter how it is measured. Microwave backhaul is a very attractive market, and microwave is the dominant backhaul solution already at $4B in 2012, growing to over $5B in 2016.”