Silicon Wave Announces Bluetooth Qualification of Complete Odyssey Solution.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2000 Silicon Wave, Inc. today announced that its Odyssey(TM) SiW1601 Link Controller 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 (IC) and Protocol Stack The set of protocols used in a communications network. A protocol stack is a prescribed hierarchy of software layers, starting from the application layer at the top (the source of the data being sent) to the data link layer at the bottom (transmitting the bits on the wire). software have received Bluetooth(TM) qualification, enabling the company to now offer a complete Bluetooth-qualified solution. Silicon Wave's Odyssey SiW1502 Radio Modem IC received Bluetooth qualification in October -- and was the first single-chip radio modem to achieve this distinction. The Bluetooth qualification provides the industry with an officially tested and qualified solution that includes full baseband, radio transceiver and link management functionality. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can design Silicon Wave's Odyssey solution into their consumer products and have complete confidence that they will pass the stringent qualification process. In some instances, OEMs that use the solution may not be required to re-qualify the radio portion of their end products. "This qualification reinforces Silicon Wave's commitment to supply our customers with best-in-class solutions that enable them to quickly bring their products to market," said David Lyon, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Silicon Wave. "Silicon Wave once again passed all testing in Category B, which is the highest level of qualification to date. Our ability to design, develop and manufacture solutions that surpass the technology requirements of the Bluetooth specification provides our customers with a significant level of flexibility in the design of their own products." The Bluetooth Special Interest Group's strict qualification process guarantees that all Bluetooth products conform to Verb 1. conform to - satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?" fit, meet coordinate - be co-ordinated; "These activities coordinate well" the Bluetooth specification, ensuring interoperability among a variety of Bluetooth products and suppliers. This qualification is a necessary precondition of the free intellectual property license for Bluetooth wireless technology, and enables products to be labeled with the Bluetooth logo. In accordance with the Bluetooth qualification procedure, a candidate for Bluetooth Qualified Test Facility, 7 layers of Ratingen, Germany, conducted the testing on the Link Controller IC and software and the Protocol Stack software. A Bluetooth Qualification Body at 7 layers then reviewed the test results and product documentation, granted approval, and listed Silicon Wave's Odyssey components on the Bluetooth Qualified Product List http://qualweb.opengroup.org/Template.cfm?LinkQualified= QualifiedProducts). Odyssey SiW1601 Link Controller IC Part of Silicon Wave's Odyssey solutions for Bluetooth 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. , the SiW1601 Link Controller IC combines the Bluetooth link management and control functions in a digital application-specific IC (ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. ). Its link controller hardware performs the logical protocol processing within the unit that enables the host to communicate over a Bluetooth link. The chip interfaces directly with the SiW1502 Radio Modem IC and provides power control, data packet processing, error detection/correction and other data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a functions. The link controller hardware in the SiW1601 IC implements all real-time, lower layer protocol processing, including the frequency-hopping, burst timing, synthesizer synthesizer Machine that electronically generates and modifies sounds, frequently with the use of a digital computer, for use in the composition of electronic music and in live performance. programming and clock synchronization Clock synchronization is a problem from computer science and engineering which deals with the idea that internal clocks of several computers may differ. Even when initially set accurately, real clocks will differ after some amount of time due to clock drift, caused by clocks functions. Silicon Wave is in volume production of the SiW1601 Link Controller IC. All of Silicon Wave's Bluetooth-qualified Odyssey products are available today. About Silicon Wave Based in San Diego, Silicon Wave designs and develops RF systems-on-chip for use in wireless and broadband communication systems and products. The company's mission is to be the leader in system-level RF ICs. Silicon Wave products include Odyssey solutions for Bluetooth wireless communications and the Sentinel line of silicon tuners and modules for cable modems and digital set-top boxes. Founded in 1997, the company was the first to deliver a Bluetooth-qualified, single-chip radio modem and is an Associate Member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is the body that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and the licensing of the Bluetooth technologies and trademarks to manufacturers. . The company's Web site is located at www.siliconwave.com. Silicon Wave, the SiW product name prefix The beginning or to add to the beginning. To prefix a header onto a packet means to place the header characters in front of the packet. "To prefix" at the beginning is the opposite of "to append" characters at the end. See prepend. 1. , Odyssey, Sentinel and the diamond logo design are trademarks of Silicon Wave, Inc. Bluetooth is a trademark owned by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Sweden. All other product, service and company names are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. |
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