Enfora Adopts Silicon Laboratories Aero EDGE Radio.AUSTIN, Texas -- Patented EDGE Transmit Architecture Preserves Best-in-Class GSM/GPRS Performance While Exceeding EDGE Performance Requirements Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Nasdaq:SLAB) today announced that Enfora, a leading wireless technology provider for mobile products, has adopted Silicon Laboratories' Aero(R) EDGE Radio for GSM/GPRS/EDGE personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smart phones targeted for US operators. Enfora selected the Aero EDGE Radio to guarantee the highest performance for GSM/GPRS/EDGE modules with a simple and easy-to-use radio design. The Aero EDGE Radio incorporates a proven digital low-IF receiver and a transmitter that uniquely combines the high performance of an offset phase-locked loop A phase-locked loop or phase lock loop (PLL) is an electronic control system that generates a signal that has a fixed relation to the phase of a "reference" signal. A phase-locked loop circuit responds to both the frequency and the phase of the input signals, automatically (OPLL OPLL Optical Phase-Locked Loop OPLL Offset Phase-Locked Loop OPLL Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament of Spine ) transmitter and a CDMA-like linear transmitter. Unlike competing architectures, this innovative, patented, transmitter approach provides performance margin to the EDGE radio specifications while preserving the best-in-class GSM/GPRS performance. Silicon Laboratories' Aero EDGE radio also significantly lowers the overall 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. reducing the required board space and component count when compared to competing solutions. "Our customers demand EDGE technology with the highest GSM/GPRS performance and reliability in the field," said Scott Constien, Chief Technical Officer of Enfora. "Silicon Laboratories' Aero EDGE Radio offers an ideal radio platform that guarantees the highest radio performance based on proven technology." "The Aero EDGE Radio's patented transmitter architecture uniquely positions Silicon Laboratories to address the requirements of handset makers and service providers for EDGE phones," said Ed Healy, vice president of Silicon Laboratories. "Our RF expertise enables us to simplify customers' migration to EDGE, helping them to meet service providers' requirements for EDGE handsets that deliver on consumer expectations in key metrics like battery life." The Aero EDGE Radio is based on Silicon Laboratories' Aero II transceiver, the industry's most integrated single-chip RF transceiver. The Aero II transceiver integrates all sensitive components including RF and TX voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs), VCO (1) (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) An oscillator that can be tuned over a wide range of frequencies by applying a voltage (tuning voltage) to it. Used in many applications such as radio tuners, VCOs are less costly than crystal oscillators, but not as stable. tuning components, loop filters and clock coupling capacitors. In addition, the Aero II transceiver includes a proven digitally-controlled crystal oscillator An oscillator that uses a quartz crystal to generate a frequency. Such devices generally output a fixed frequency, but some can be controlled by a tuning voltage over a small range. Contrast with VCO. (DCXO DCXO Digitally-Compensated Crystal Oscillator ) for use with a standard 26 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. crystal and a software-programmable universal baseband interface that supports leading GSM/GPRS/EDGE basebands. The Aero EDGE Radio is qualified for use with power amplifiers (PAs) and other components sourced from multiple vendors, offering customers a high degree of flexibility in procurement and supply Enfora Based in Plano, Texas Plano (IPA: /ˈpleɪnoʊ/) is a wealthy suburb of Dallas, Texas, located to the north, mainly within Collin County, but also extending into Denton County. According to the 2000 U.S. , Enfora is a provider of wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. solutions for the growing number of integrators and mobile workers. Enfora's products are designed to provide access to mission-critical data, files, and applications via a GSM/GPRS/EDGE or WiFi network See wireless Ethernet and 802.11. connection-quickly and wirelessly. For more information, view Enfora on the World Wide Web at www.enfora.com. Silicon Laboratories Inc. Silicon Laboratories Inc. is a leading designer of high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) for a broad range of applications. Silicon Laboratories' diverse portfolio of highly integrated, patented solutions is developed by a world-class engineering team with decades of cumulative expertise in cutting-edge mixed-signal design. The company has design, engineering, marketing, sales and applications offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. For more information about Silicon Laboratories please visit www.silabs.com. Cautionary Language This press release may contain forward-looking statements based on Silicon Laboratories' current expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Silicon Laboratories believes that it is important to communicate the company's future expectations to investors. However, there may be events in the future that Silicon Laboratories is not able to accurately predict or control. For a discussion of these and other factors that could impact Silicon Laboratories' financial results and cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, please refer to Silicon Laboratories' recent filings with the SEC, particularly the Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. filed February 15, 2005. Note to editors: Silicon Laboratories, Aero and the Silicon Laboratories logo are trademarks of Silicon Laboratories Inc. All other product names noted herein may be trademarks of their respective holders. |
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