AKM Semiconductor, Inc., Joins the SuperAMPS Sleep Mode Consortium.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 1998-- The AK2336 Is an Ideal Single-Chip Base-Band IC Solution for the New IS-91A SuperAMPS Sleep Mode That Extends Battery Standby Time On AMPS Based Cellular Telephones AKM AKM Apogee Kick Motor AKM Army Knowledge Management AKM Angry Korea Man (Warcraft 3 Personality) AKM Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (Papers for the Oriental Consumer - German Oriental Society) Semiconductor, Inc., today announced that it is joining a marketing consortium with AZTECH Embedded Systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. Group (ESG ESG Enterprise Strategy Group (Veritas) ESG Emergency Shelter Grant (Florida, USA) ESG Expeditionary Strike Group ESG Electronic Service Guide (used in DVB) ) of Green Bay, Wis., and Aspire Corp., of Tiburon, Calif., to promote the IS-91A standard SuperAMPS Sleep Mode. This partnership will use the AK2336 single-chip base-band IC to produce an analog cellular phone with up to 10 times the battery standby time of current analog phones. In the United States, AMPS continues to be the most important cellular phone standard that is used everywhere across the nation. However, the AMPS standard energy demands have, until now, made it difficult to obtain long battery standby times on analog cellular telephones. With this in mind, the SuperAMPS Sleep Mode for the new IS-91A standard has been designed to significantly extend the battery standby time of analog cellular telephones. To implement this revolutionary SuperAMPS Sleep Mode, several technologies have to come together: a device level base-band LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. , an advanced call processing software, and a sleep mode controller for base stations. AKM Semiconductor, AZTECH-ESG, and Aspire Corp., respectively, are just the players to bring these technologies together and develop such an innovative sleep mode feature. "Our companies," said Kojitsu Goto, Vice-President of Marketing at AKM Semiconductor, "possess the right synergies to develop such an advanced sleep mode feature which combine excellent IC design experience, software expertise, and systems understanding." Goto added, "the AK2336 brings to the consortium the right functionality to implement the SuperAMPS Sleep Mode in new analog cellular telephone designs." The first cellular telephone with SuperAMPS Sleep Mode capabilities will be introduced by Niigata Seimitsu Co., Ltd., at the CTIA (1) See CompTIA. (2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry. Wireless '98 Exhibition in Atlanta, Ga., from Feb. 23 through Feb. 25. This cellular telephone, the NSA NSA abbr. National Security Agency Noun 1. NSA - the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign 2001, will be displayed by Modus Operandi [Latin, Method of working.] A term used by law enforcement authorities to describe the particular manner in which a crime is committed. The term modus operandi is most commonly used in criminal cases. It is sometimes referred to by its initials, M.O. , a sales agent for Niigata Seimitsu. Please visit Booth 5117 for additional information. AKM Semiconductor, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Asahi Kasei Microsystems (AKM), Co., Ltd., Japan. AKM designs and manufactures mixed-signal integrated circuits for the telecommunications and multimedia markets. The company supplies a wide range of wireless chip-set solutions for various analog and digital cellular and cordless standards, including PDC (1) (Primary Domain Controller) A Windows NT/2000 service that manages security for its local domain. Every domain has one PDC, which contains a database of usernames, passwords and permissions. , GSM, IS-136A, IS-95, PHS (Personal Handyphone System) A TDMA-based cellular phone system introduced in Japan in mid-1995. Operating in the 1880-1930 MHz band, PHS uses microcells that cover an area only 100 to 500 meters in diameter, resulting in lower equipment costs but requiring more base , DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) A cordless phone standard mostly used in Europe; however, DECT 6.0 is increasingly used worldwide. The first DECT standards were introduced by ETSI in 1992, and DECT phones have been used as cordless home phones as , AMPS/NAMPS, TACS/NTACS, NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephone) An analog cellular phone system deployed in more than 40 countries in Europe. Launched in the Scandinavian countries in 1979, NMT was the first analog cellphone system. Both 450 MHz and 900 MHz versions are available. See cellular generations. , and others. AZTECH-ESG has over 20 years of experience developing software for the embedded industry. The company's expertise in Human Machine Interface (HMI (Human Machine Interface) The user interface in a manufacturing or process control system. It provides a graphics-based visualization of an industrial control and monitoring system. ) design and development, in-house tool kit, and experienced engineering staff, deliver the competitive edge required in the development of embedded products. Currently, the company is engineering a call-processing software package for the IS-91A standard utilizing the AK2336 base-band LSI. To contact AZTECH-ESG, call Greg Taisto at 920/499-0533. Aspire Corp. is the creator of a significant new base station product, the Sleep Mode Controller, that extends the standby battery life of new analog cellular telephones by five to ten times. The Aspire product provides the cellular industry's first analog sleep mode capability in the form of a plug-and-play, add-on unit for existing analog base stations. The Sleep Mode Controller is fully compliant with the recently approved IS-91A industry standard, increasingly known as SuperAMPS. Aspire is supporting leading cellular telephone manufactures in the development of single-mode and dual-mode cellular telephones with IS-91A sleep mode capability. For more information, call Garrett Stone at 415/435-9580 or email him at garrett@aspirecorp.com. -0-
AKM Semiconductor produces the AK2336 Single Chip Base-Band LSI
for AMPS, NAMPS, TACS, and NTACS. The AK2336 offers the following
features:
-- Single Chip base-band LSI -- DSAT/DST generating and
for AMPS, NAMPS, TACS and NTACS transponding circuits
-- Linearity Adjustable CMOS -- 10 bit programmable I/O ports
COMPANDOR
-- Voice signal processing -- VOX circuit
circuits
-- Wide band data processing -- Uncommitted OP-AMPx1, Timerx2,
8 bit DACx3
-- Busy/idle bit extraction -- AFC counter
-- Majority voting -- Low power CMOS, 1.4mA (TYP;
VDD = 3V) at Rx Data Mode
-- Discontinuous Reception Support -- Single 2.7V to 5.5V power
supply
-- Error handling: up to 2-bit -- 80 Pin LQFP package
error correction
-- SAT decoding and transponding
circuits
-0- In addition, AKM Semiconductor offers the AK2335, an advanced base-band processor for AMPS/TACS. This chip can also be used in the IS-91A Standard SuperAMPS Sleep Mode, but is designed for AMPS/TACS applications only. For additional information on the AK2336 and other products, please visit our web site at www.akm.com, or dial toll free 1-888-AKM-SEMI (1-888-256-7364). CONTACT: AKM Semiconductor, Inc. Kaz Tsuda, 408/436-8580 ktsuda@akm.com http://www.akm.com |
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