RF Monolithics, Inc. Announces Two IF SAW Filters for National Semiconductor's Chipset.Business/Technology Editors DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000 RF Monolithics, Inc. (RFM RFM Recency, Frequency, Monetary RFM Rotorcraft Flight Manual RFM Reform Party RFM Radio Frequency Module RFM Radio Free Monterey RFM Retirement and Financial Management RFM Reply to Flagged Message RFM Radio Frequency Monitor RFM Request for Material ) (Nasdaq:RFMI RFMI Request for More Information ) today announced two Intermediate Frequency (IF) surface acoustic wave A surface acoustic wave (SAW) is an acoustic wave traveling along the surface of a material having some elasticity, with an amplitude that typically decays exponentially with the depth of the substrate. (SAW) filter reference designs, SF1115A and SF1133A, for National Semiconductor's Diversity Receiver Chipset (DRCS DRCS Digital Radio Concentrator System DRCS Dynamically Redefinable Character Set DRCS Diversity Receiver Chipset DRCS Data Receiver and Command Sender DRCS Distributed Railway Control System DRCS Director of Reserve Components Support ). National Semiconductor developed the new chipset for use in GSM, EDGE, PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. , DCS (1) See also DSC. (2) Digital Cross-connect System) A network switching and grooming device used by telecom carriers. See digital cross-connect. , AMPS, DAMPS and 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 wireless base stations. An objective of any reference design is to offer the best possible product solution to meet customers' application needs. National Semiconductor selected RFM for collaboration to meet this objective and provide a reference design solution that is expected to expedite a customer's overall engineering effort. The RFM SAW filters provide technical advantages such as low insertion loss, small size, and low cost to achieve market and application requirements. RFM has supplied samples of these filters to base station customers in both domestic and international markets. John Steininger, Base Station Business Unit Manager for National Semiconductor's Wireless Communication Product Line, commented, "RFM's new, low cost SAWs and National Semiconductor's Diversity Receiver Chipset are proving to be the winning combination with our GSM base station customers, particularly in EDGE receiver designs. With RFM's SAWs, we are able to hit both the performance requirements and the cost targets our customers are demanding." "We feel these reference designs for National Semiconductor's DRCS chipset recognize RFM's unique technologies and state-of-the-art SAW filter design capability," stated Dr. Jidong Dai, Executive Director of RFM's Communications Products Group. "The chipset and filters together provide a low cost, easy to implement, system solution from RF to digital baseband for wireless base station customers." RFM, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a leading developer and manufacturer of a broad range of radio frequency components and modules based on surface acoustic wave technology for the automotive, computer, consumer, industrial and telecommunications markets worldwide. This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but or not limited to, timely development, acceptance and pricing of new products, competing technologies, impact of competitive products and pricing, general economic conditions as they affect the Company's customers, as well as other potential risks and uncertainties detailed in the Company's SEC reports, including 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. for the year dated August 31, 1999. The Company does not assume the obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release. |
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