XtremeSpectrum Takes Next Steps to Bring Ultra-Wideband Products to the Industry.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 2001 Company Will Use Ultra-Wideband Technology to Enable Streaming of Multimedia Content Wirelessly Leveraging its founders' extensive experience in ultra-wideband wireless technology and design, XtremeSpectrum Inc., a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. dedicated to bringing ultra-wideband products to the wireless industry, today announced it has taken several steps toward realizing its corporate objectives. The innovative start-up has received funding from corporate investors including Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Motorola, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MOT) and Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. Incorporated (NYSE:TXN TXN Texas Instruments (stock symbol) TXN Transaction (databases) TXN Tunxi, China (Airport Code) TXN Tarxien (postal locality, Malta) ) in its latest round of funding. Additionally, XtremeSpectrum, which is headquartered in Vienna, also announced it has established a West Coast presence with offices in Mountain View, Calif. that will house the company's growing marketing and field application engineering staff as the company begins its customer and industry partnership activities. "Ultra-wideband technology brings great promise to the wireless industry," said Dr. Martin Rofheart, president 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 XtremeSpectrum. "Unlike other wireless technologies, ultra-wideband allows the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and to simultaneously deliver low levels of power consumption for battery-powered handheld products, consumer-oriented price points for mass market adoption, and high data rates for streaming of multimedia." The latest round of funding includes Cisco Systems, Motorola Ventures and Texas Instrument's early-stage venture capital initiative, TI Ventures. It also includes previous investors Alliance Technology Ventures, Granite Ventures Granite Ventures is a private venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco California. It has backed such companies as Tumbleweed Communications, Plumtree Software, Sendmail, and Westbridge Technology. and Novak Biddle Venture Partners. Details of the funding were not disclosed. XtremeSpectrum has also leased 6,000 square feet of office space in Mountain View to accommodate the growing marketing and field application engineering staff. While the corporate headquarters remain in Vienna, XtremeSpectrum's Mountain View office will enable the company to attract top marketing, technical support and engineering talent on both coasts, while establishing a physical presence near many potential customers in the consumer electronics, computer and networking markets. XtremeSpectrum's new offices are located at 1001 Rengstorff Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043. Telephone: 650/230-0490. "Over the past three years, XtremeSpectrum has focused on core technology development of ultra-wideband for communications applications," commented Dr. Rofheart. "Now, with ultra-wideband technology under the final stages of consideration by the FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. , XtremeSpectrum is taking the necessary steps to ensure we are well-positioned to take advantage of the market opportunities FCC approval will bring. Establishing a West Coast office, focusing on customer applications and developing products based on our technology will enable us to continue our momentum in the evolving wireless market." XtremeSpectrum was founded by John McCorkle and Dr. Rofheart to advance the development of ultra-wideband technology for the emerging wireless home market. XtremeSpectrum plans to deliver the first "Moore's Law "The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 18 months." By Intel co-founder Gordon Moore regarding the pace of semiconductor technology. He made this famous comment in 1965 when there were approximately 60 devices on a chip. radio" -- a wireless chipset that scales performance in direct proportion to improvements in semiconductor process technology with no need for enhancements to the basic system architecture -- for home networking applications such as set-top boxes, digital still and video cameras, MP3 audio players, home theater An audio/video entertainment center that has a large-screen TV and hi-fi system with three speakers in the front (left, right and center) and left and right speakers in the rear. Starting in the early 1990s, video inputs were added to stereo receivers and preamplifiers. equipment, video gaming video gaming n. 1. Gambling by means of interactive games of chance played on a video screen. 2. The playing of video games. equipment, PDAs, etc. According to Mike Wolf, director of enterprise and residential communications with Scottsdale, Ariz.-based market research firm Cahners In-Stat, "Traditionally wireless LAN designers must work around the tradeoff between data rate performance, power consumption and cost. Upon approval of ultra-wideband technology by the FCC, there is new hope as ultra-wideband holds the promise of simultaneously enabling multiple streams of digital audio and video, at price points amenable to consumer products and at power consumption levels commensurate with battery-powered, portable devices. Consumers have shown in 2001 that they are excited about wireless networking technology," he continued, "and with emergence of ultra-wideband technology in the future, we could begin to see wireless communications capability enabled within devices like digital cameras, digital display products, PDAs, DVDs, and other consumer-grade multimedia products." About Ultra-Wideband Technology Ultra-wideband is a wireless technology that transmits an extremely low power signal over a wide swath of radio spectrum. The FCC has proposed to allow operation without a license, under technical rules that are still pending. Ultra-wideband energy emissions are similar in nature to the unintentional "radio noise" generated by devices such as PCs, laptops, PDAs, etc., but at lower levels. Developed by DARPA DARPA: see Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) The name given to the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency during the 1980s. It was later renamed back to ARPA. and the US Army and Air Force, ultra-wideband technology originally allowed the imaging of hard-to-find targets that were hidden in forests. Because ultra-wideband resists interference by resolving it, it is also a very effective technology for indoor wireless communications. "Martin and I realized the unique properties of ultra-wideband signals that solved the imaging-through-trees problem could be applied equally to the problem of communicating within buildings -- it's the same physics," noted McCorkle, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of XtremeSpectrum. "Buildings, like forests, have a multitude of obstacles, such as furniture, walls, ceilings, etc. Ultra-wideband's unique properties easily overcome these obstacles. In addition, the radio circuits and signal processing functions necessary to implement ultra-wideband are an order of magnitude A change in quantity or volume as measured by the decimal point. For example, from tens to hundreds is one order of magnitude. Tens to thousands is two orders of magnitude; tens to millions is three orders of magnitude, etc. less complex compared to existing radio technologies such as spread spectrum and OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) A digital transmission technique that uses a large number of carriers spaced apart at slightly different frequencies. . This allows the end user to simultaneously achieve high bandwidth and low power consumption for a very low price." About the Management XtremeSpectrum's ability to deliver this technology stems from the experience and knowledge of its founders and engineering staff, all of whom have extensive expertise in the ultra-wideband and wireless industries. McCorkle is a pioneering technologist in the area of ultra-wideband, signal processing and communication systems. Prior to co-founding the company, he was the principle investigator for the US Army Research Laboratories' ultra-wideband radar research efforts and led a $30 million R&D budget over 10 years that successfully built the first ultra-wideband SAR (Segmentation And Reassembly) The protocol that converts data to cells for transmission over an ATM network. It is the lower part of the ATM Adaption Layer (AAL), which is responsible for the entire operation. See AAL. SAR - segmentation and reassembly to penetrate foliage and image targets with 1/2 square foot resolution. Prior to co-founding XtremeSpectrum, Dr. Rofheart was president and a founder of Soft Machine Resources (SMR (Specialized Mobile Radio) The communications services used by police, ambulances, taxicabs, trucks and other delivery vehicles. Throughout the U.S., approximately 3,000 independent operators are licensed by the FCC to offer this service, which provides always-on ), Inc., a software and signal processing engineering firm that, most recently, developed ultra-wideband radar imaging systems for the Army Research Laboratory. About XtremeSpectrum Founded in 1998, XtremeSpectrum Inc. is a wireless communications company developing system semiconductor solutions for the multimedia connectivity industry. Leveraging its unique understanding of ultra-wideband, XtremeSpectrum's patent-pending, ultra-wideband digital radio will allow multimedia-enabled devices, such as phones, set-top boxes, laptops, DVDs, video recorders and PDAs, to send and receive multiple streams of digital video, audio and data wirelessly, all at extremely low price points and power consumption levels -- levels that cannot be reached by existing solutions. XtremeSpectrum will focus on customers in the OEM consumer electronic, OEM PC, PC-peripheral manufacturing, and wireless networking ODM/OEM spaces. For more information about the company, please call 703/269-3000. Note to Editors: XtremeSpectrum is a trademark of XtremeSpectrum Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. |
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