Berkana Wireless Announces New GSM/GPRS Radio Reference Design with TriQuint Transmit Module.CAMPBELL, Calif. -- Radio Board Featuring Berkana BKW9000 Single-Chip CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. Transceiver and TriQuint TQM (Total Quality Management) An organizational undertaking to improve the quality of manufacturing and service. It focuses on obtaining continuous feedback for making improvements and refining existing processes over the long term. See ISO 9000. 6M4001 Transmit Module on Exhibit at 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 2005 in TriQuint Booth 5623 Berkana Wireless Inc., a provider of highly integrated CMOS radio frequency (RF) solutions for cellular and other multimode wireless connectivity, today announced the availability of a GSM/GPRS radio reference design using the TQM6M4001 Transmit Module manufactured by TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc., Hillsboro, Oregon Hillsboro is a city in and county seat of Washington County, Oregon, United States.GR6 The community began in 1842 and was named Hillsborough in 1850, before incorporation in 1876 as Hillsboro. . The Berkana radio reference design capitalizes on the high integration of Berkana's BKW9000 Single-Chip CMOS Transceiver and the TriQuint TQM6M4001 Transmit Module to enable quad-band GSM/GPRS handset designs with a Bill of Materials The list of components that make up a system. For example, a bill of materials for a house would include the cement block, lumber, shingles, doors, windows, plumbing, electric, heating and so on. (BOM) consisting of only seven key components. A radio board featuring both products will be on display in TriQuint Booth 5623 at CTIA Wireless 2005, New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , Louisiana, March 14-16. "Today's GSM/GPRS handsets must meet aggressive cost and form-factor targets," said Dr. Cormac Conroy, senior vice president, cellular systems and applications. "The combination of our highly integrated single-chip CMOS transceiver and TriQuint's compact transmit module exceeds handset customers' most stringent requirements." Berkana offers a number of radio reference designs supporting various RF components and GSM/GPRS baseband platforms based on customer requirements. The reference designs consist of a radio reference board comprising the complete signal path from baseband to antenna, a BOM list, schematics, Gerber files, hardware user's manual, radio driver software and programming guide. The reference design will be available in Q2 2005 for $995. Berkana BKW9000 Transceivers support GSM-850, EGSM-900, DCS-1800 and PCS-1900 bands through the integration of four low-noise amplifiers (LNAs), complete receiver and transmitter chains, VCOs, synthesizers and filters. TriQuint TQM6M4001 Transmit Modules integrate the power amplifier, power amplifier controller, harmonic filter and quad-band pHEMT switch in an extremely compact 6mm-squared form factor. Berkana Wireless, Inc. is a privately held fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. founded in 2001 and backed by leading U.S. and Asian venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] . Headquartered in Silicon Valley with a subsidiary in Korea, Berkana has compelling technology and a rich patent portfolio (36 filed, 19 granted) in CMOS RF transceiver design, an engineering team (90 percent with advanced degrees) with proven IC design-to-manufacturing experience, and a seasoned management team with 100+ years of experience in wireless/communications integrated circuit startups and public companies. Information about Berkana Wireless can be found at www.berkanawireless.com. |
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