Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Cambridge Silicon Radio | Subject: UniFi-1
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 April 2005
Single-chip Wi-Fi silicon stars at
Olympia
This week CSR is demonstrating its first single-chip Wi-Fi silicon for consumer electronic devices, UniFi-1, at The Wireless LAN Event at London's Olympia.
This week CSR is demonstrating its first single-chip Wi-Fi silicon for consumer electronic devices, UniFi-1, at The Wireless LAN Event at London's Olympia UniFi-1 is embedded in an SDIO card, plugged into an O2 XDA II smartphone, as well as a cardbus2 card in a laptop PC
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 13 Feb 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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This system will demonstrate the ease of voice calls over IP (VoIP) using Skype, via Wi-Fi connection from phone to access point and back to a PC.
During the Skype demonstration, the XDA II and PC laptop are connected to the Internet over a Wi-Fi connection to a wide area network (WAN) via an access point (supporting 802.11b/g).
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This demonstration will also respond to the issues of coexistence with the other radios found in the handset or PC.
The XDA II includes integrated GSM and Bluetooth radios and the PC features a Bluetooth connection to a mono headset.
The demonstration will show that UniFi will not interfere with, or be disrupted by these other RF sources.
CSR has optimised UniFi for this purpose and employs all commonly used frequency/time domain coexistence schemes for other 2.4GHz wireless standards.
The UniFi-1 product family, which started sampling at the end of 2004, has been designed specifically for easy integration into consumer electronic devices.
The SDIO card features UniFi-1 Portable, designed specifically for cellular phones and other pocket-sized devices.
The single band (2.4GHz) b/g device features an exceptionally small chip-scale package, measuring only 5.8x6.4mm, which incorporates the RF, modem, baseband and hard MAC (media access controller) in a true single-chip format.
The PC card features the dual band a/b/g UniFi-1 Enterprise device, in a BGA single-chip package.
The chip architecture itself, coupled with the lack of external components required, ensure that the UniFi silicon offers extremely low power consumption, a low bill of materials (BOM) and superior Wi-Fi performance.
"This is our first opportunity to demonstrate our working UniFi technology for Wi-Fi to the general public", commented Simon Finch, VP strategic marketing, CSR.
"Wi-Fi is to provide new ways for consumers to make fuller use of their mobile phones, PDAs or other devices".
"UniFi enables device manufacturers to add Wi-Fi at minimal cost and impact on physical design - and to pass these advantages onto the consumer".
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