Conexant Opens Wireless Design Center in Boston.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers NEWPORT BEACH Newport Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 66,643), Orange co., S Calif., on Newport Bay and the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1906. It is a popular seaside resort and yachting center. Manufactures include electrical and medical equipment, computers, boats, and adhesives. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- June 12, 2000 Conexant System Inc. (Nasdaq: CNXT) Monday announced the opening of its newest design center for radio frequency integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for (RFIC RFIC Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit RFIC Radio Frequency Interface Chip ) devices in Chelmsford, Mass., near Boston. The 20,000-square-foot design center, which includes a 4,000-square-foot RFIC engineering test lab, will be occupied by more than 50 engineers and technicians with expertise in RFIC design, CAD/CAE CAD/CAE Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Engineering , layout/physical design and prototype assembly, and product engineering and testing. The new facility will feature the latest NT & Unix computer platforms for RFIC CAD/CAE systems running Cadence and HP IC design software. "Conexant's RFIC design team has positioned us to be a leading supplier of power amplifiers, highly integrated receivers and transmitters, and RF subsystems for the most advanced applications in the industry. We provide RF subsystems for the Bluetooth, GPS and spread spectrum digital cordless telephone markets, as well as digital cellular phones in all the major GSM, CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. and TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) A satellite and cellular phone technology that interleaves multiple digital signals onto a single high-speed channel. For cellular, TDMA triples the capacity of the original analog method (FDMA). wireless standards," said Moiz Beguwala, senior vice president and general manager for Conexant's Wireless Communications Division. "The Boston RFIC design center is a very important expansion of these capabilities and will offer engineers in this area an opportunity to join a winning team." Conexant's RFIC designs are based on the company's industry-leading silicon germanium (SiGe), bipolar complementary semiconductor oxide semiconductor (BiCMOS), silicon bipolar (SiBipolar), mixed signal 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. , RFCMOS, gallium arsenide heterojunction bipolar transistor The heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) is an improvement of the bipolar junction transistor (BJT) that can handle signals of very high frequencies up to several hundred GHz. It is common in modern ultrafast circuits, mostly radio-frequency (RF) systems. (GaAs HBT HBT Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor HBT HyCult Biotechnology (Uden, The Netherlands) HBT Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (interferometer) HBT Herring Bone Twill HBT Heflex Bioengineering Test ) and metal semiconductor field-effect transistor (MeSFET) process technologies. In addition, the company's state-of-the-art RF multi-chip packaging capabilities allows for a mixing and matching of various technologies to optimize the cost, power and size of its RFIC devices. About Conexant Systems With a revenue run-rate of approximately $2 billion per year, Conexant is the world's largest independent company focused exclusively on providing semiconductor solutions for communications electronics. With more than 30 years of experience in developing communications technology, the company draws upon its expertise in mixed-signal processing to deliver integrated systems and semiconductor products for a broad range of communications applications. These products facilitate communications worldwide through wireline voice and data communications networks, cordless and cellular wireless telephony systems, personal imaging devices and equipment, and emerging cable and wireless broadband communications networks. The company aligns its business into five product platforms: Network Access, Wireless Communications, Digital Infotainment, Personal Imaging, and Personal Computing. Conexant is a member of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 Indices. For more information, visit Conexant at www.conexant.com. |
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