Datasheet for Qualcomm Atheros AR9462

Single-chip, 2.4/5 GHz, 2-stream 802.11a/b/g/n and BT 4.0 + HS SoC Solution with SST Technology.

Product Overview
The AR9462 is a single-chip solution that combines dual-band (2.4/5 GHz), 2-stream 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0 technologies for notebooks, netbooks and tablets. The highly integrated solution not only provides customers with greater design flexibility, but can actually improve the wireless experience for consumers.
The AR9462 brings Atheros’ industry-leading 2x2 802.11n performance to increasingly smaller computing and CE devices. In delivers data rates of 300 Mbps and TCP throughput of more than 200 Mbps when used in 2x2 mode. It also offers a unique set of advanced 11n technologies known as Signal-Sustain Technology (SST), which ensures stronger wireless connections across the entire WLAN link. SST features include Low Density Parity Checking (LDPC), Trans¬mit Beam Forming (TxBF), Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC) and Maximum Likelihood Demodulation (MLD) – which together can increase rate-over-range performance by up to 100% at short range, 50% at mid-range and 25% at long range.